Stellar Mercenaries 9+
Sci-Fi action scroller RPG
Quest Builders LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Ready to vanquish your enemies and change the solar system forever from anywhere? Stellar Mercs is a vertical scrolling, offline capable, action arcade shooter with upgradable ships, weapons, and special abilities. Customize your loadouts for each mission depending on the environments and enemies you'll face! Each mission will reward you with unlocks and cash to continue building your arsenal.
You're not the only mercenary out there - the more successful and accomplished you become, the more attention you'll attract. Enemy mercenaries can become persistent arch-rivals, leveling up along side you. Defeating them will net you great rewards, but if you die at their hands, they'll grow even further in power.
The fun is never-ending! Fly missions through endless procedurally generated missions with a variety of environments, objectives, hazards, enemies, and rewards. Hijack cargo from speeding space trains, break into heavily guarded research and development space stations to acquire new prototype ships to fly, or defeat mighty leviathan capital ships in your quest to become the wealthiest, most powerful mercenary in the system!
Stellar Mercs operates as a single handed action arcade game, so you can play comfortably on the go. SM is offline capable, so even without signal you can keep gaming and conquering the solar system! Configure your spacecraft's loadout and autoshoot your way to victory - focus on maneuvering through hazards and waves of enemies while you employ special abilities for maximum carnage!
What’s New
Version 1.4.1
- Each ship now has a unique special ability, in addition to their item-equippable special slot
- Support Ship special now increases healing done, depending on rarity
- Shield Boost special improved
- Improved chain mission stability & fixed crashes
Patch 1:
- Various bug fixes & improvements
- Enemy torpedoes no longer deal damage through shield
Full change list here: https://www.questbuilders.net/stellar-mercenaries/ship-specials
Ratings and Reviews
Awesome old school shooter
There’s a lot going on with this one. Tons of ship customization, weapons options and even mods for weapons. The weapons all felt really different too, they weren’t just number increases.
The procedural side missions with random hazards are really cool too. It’s nonlinear so when I got stuck I just flew some side missions to get better gear until I was able to get past the tough campaign mission.
Level 9 broken
You can't beat level 9 because the train is stuck in an endless loop. Otherwise pretty fun. The retro isometric art is really nice. Kinda reminds me of Raptor. Having side missions is great too so you don't have to play the same missions on repeat to get cash etc. The enemy mercenary story part is also really cool (the lasers are easier than you think... keep your cool for those!) The balance of mechanics seems a bit off vs reward. The mechanism for buying upgrades is more convoluted than it needs to be and you end up just getting better/rarer stuff as drops anyway so the blueprints (at least up to level 9) have been completely useless to me. There are many animation moments that appear to waste a lot of game time (flying into hangar, waiting for the gates to open/close, waiting for your ship to fly off and end the mission, waiting for your reward box to open... why is it even in a box? That makes zero sense... just give the stuff as the reward...). Lastly if you kill a boss and it drops items on the screen there is no time to pick them up before the mission ends. This issue is only present for the final boss and does not affect mid level bosses. Also I did not pay for this app and just played the free version as it appears paying $ just gets you a better ship sooner (you can unlock at least 1 more ship if you beat some levels).
A bug with a story level
The game is great. It’s highly customizable and has a lot of diversity. I used to have practically 100% completed the game across two save files before the update or something else deleted them, and I was all too happy to get back to that point. However, on my way there, I realized the main mission 9 of the moon was broken, at least for me. the cargo train doesn’t go out far enough for the cargo to appear on the screen, and then it just slowly moves downwards until it’s off screen after that, leading to fight an endless wave of easy enemies. So great game, but it just has a bug that completely stops progression, at least for me
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Information
- Seller
- Quest Builders LLC
- Size
- 164.2 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 9+ Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2021 Quest Builders LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Gem Pack - Small $2.99
- Currency - Medium Pack $3.99
- Gem Pack - Medium $7.99
- Stater Pack - Advanced $5.99
- Currency - Small Pack $1.99
- Gem Pack - Large $15.99
- Starter Pack - Basic $1.99
- Starter Pack - Legendary $15.99
- Currency - Large Pack $7.99