Raiders of the Broken Planet cover

Raiders of the Broken Planet

Critic score1 critic
First release
Sep 22, 2017
Publisher
MercurySteam
Genres
Indie, Adventure, Shooter, Strategy · Action, Science fiction

The game is being released as set of standalone campaigns that can be played in any order. The Prologue is the base of the game, which contains 2 full missions, and will be permanently free on the games release. The first campaign, Alien Myths, will be available for purchase the same day. It contains new characters and missions with a story that will continue to build on the games world. There is a total of 4 campaigns currently announced and they are designed to be playable in any order. The game is a short campaign based co-op shooter that has multiple missions linked together. It has a 4v1 game mode that puts your team against a random online opponent who will also be using one of the games playable characters while interfering in your missions as you play.

Also known as Raiders of the Broken Planet - Prologue, Spacelords, Spacelords.exe

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Storyline, release dates, time to beat, age ratings, modes, links, keywords

Storyline
"An incredible discovery on one of Saturn’s moons leads a force of humans to a broken planet on the far reaches of the universe. A source of energy called Aleph exists there that grants ultimate power to who ever controls it... However, after becoming trapped on the planet, the human forces split into factions and fight amongst themselves for supremacy and dominion over the Aleph. The peaceful inhabitants of the planet decide enough is enough and a hero emerges amongst them who hopes to lead his people to freedom... Using nefarious means and exploiting the disunity amongst the human ranks, Harec recruits a rag tag group of rogues, outlaws and hired guns from the various factions and pits them against those who would destroy his people... As they begin to fight back against the human invaders, the Raiders soon face a new deadly threat wholly intent on making the entire universe burn, just for kicks…."Read more

"An incredible discovery on one of Saturn’s moons leads a force of humans to a broken planet on the far reaches of the universe. A source of energy called Aleph exists there that grants ultimate power to who ever controls it... However, after becoming trapped on the planet, the human forces split into factions and fight amongst themselves for supremacy and dominion over the Aleph. The peaceful inhabitants of the planet decide enough is enough and a hero emerges amongst them who hopes to lead his people to freedom... Using nefarious means and exploiting the disunity amongst the human ranks, Harec recruits a rag tag group of rogues, outlaws and hired guns from the various factions and pits them against those who would destroy his people... As they begin to fight back against the human invaders, the Raiders soon face a new deadly threat wholly intent on making the entire universe burn, just for kicks…."

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sep 22, 2017
PlayStation 4
Sep 22, 2017
Xbox One
Sep 22, 2017
Age ratings
ESRB M
Game modes
Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player
Perspective
Third person
Keywords
achievements, asymmetric gameplay, online, digital distribution, voice acting
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At a Glance

Critic Score
70

Overview

Steam review summary

Steam users rate this Mixed, 3,285 reviews in all languages, recorded 16 October 2026

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Multiplayer

  • Online multiplayerSteam · 16 Oct
  • Online co-opSteam · 16 Oct

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