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Rakuten

Rakuten is a physics based space shooter where you pilot your own rocketship, shoot down enemy spacecraft, and unlock upgrades to further increase your capabilities and available weaponry.

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December 2, 2021
4 years and 243 days ago
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About the Game

Rakuten is a physics based space shooter where you pilot your own rocketship, shoot down enemy spacecraft, and unlock upgrades to further increase your capabilities and available weaponry. Fight it out against your friends or team together in PVP and PVE gamemodes.

Gameplay

  • Pilot your rocketship, left or right to steer, forwards to accelerate
  • Shoot down asteroids, bots and players
  • Unlock new 'enhancements' like shields and weapons
  • Upgrade and improve existing 'enhancements' to improve your stats

Features

  • Online multiplayer up to 8 players
  • Physics based combat system
  • Randomly generated asteroid fields

Enhancements

  • Thrusters - Increases max acceleration
  • Dampeners - Increases effectiveness of the inertial dampeners
  • Boosters - Unlocks ability to temporarily boost max acceleration
  • Hull - Increases maximum health
  • Regenerative Hull - Unlocks automatic health regeneration
  • Hull Regeneration - Increases health regeneration rate
  • Energy Capacity - Increases max energy capacity
  • Energy Generation - Increases energy generation rate
  • Shields - Unlocks shields
  • Shield Capacity - Increases maximum shields
  • Shield Regeneration - Increases shields regeneration rate
  • Turret - Unlocks ability to shoot projectiles independently of rocketship orientation
  • Blaster Cannon Damage - Increases damage dealt by blaster cannon bolts
  • Missiles - Unlocks missile launcher to fire homing missiles
  • EMP Missiles - Unlocks a second missile launcher for EMP missiles which deal twice as much damage however only against shields
  • Missile Damage - Increases missile and EMP missile damage
  • Missile Capacity - Increases maximum missile capacity
  • Missile Fabrication - Increases rate at which missiles are fabricated and ready for launch
  • EMP Missile Capacity - Increases maximum EMP missile capacity
  • EMP Missile Fabrication - Increases rate at which EMP missiles are fabricated and ready for launch
  • Point Defence Cannon - Unlocks the point defence cannon for shooting down missiles as well as close range ship-to-ship combat
  • PDC Damage - Increases damage of point defence cannon rounds