Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius

As Captain Kayto Shields, embark on a galactic voyage of heroism and survival. With his home world destroyed and his nation conquered, the inexperienced Captain Shields, and his newly minted vessel, the Sunrider, are left as the only hope against a galactic evil intent on subjugating all sentient life.

Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius is a anime, visual novel and free to play game developed by Love in Space and published by Sekai Project.
Released on July 09th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 2,777 reviews of which 2,568 were positive and 209 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius into these genres:

Anime Visual Novel Free to Play Turn-Based Strategy Mechs Strategy Space Sci-fi Turn-Based RPG Singleplayer Indie Great Soundtrack Story Rich Tactical Hex Grid Action Romance Difficult

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Win XP+
Processor: i3+
Memory: 3 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 850 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.7
Processor: i3+
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Storage: 850 MB available space

Linux

OS: Linux Kernal 3.2
Processor: i3+
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 460+ HD5700+
Storage: 850 MB available space

Reviews

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Feb. 2017

For a free game this is surprisinly high quality. The combat is challenging (if you want) and fun. The soundtrack also is beautiful and very fitting in many scenes, though there are a few were it doesnt mach the tone of the scene but only a few. Characters are interesting and quite likeable. Ships and ryders designs are very well done. Overall a must play for lovers of strategy games and space operas.

Feb. 2017

A light tactical game combined with a visual novel, where the choices you make matter. It's easy to get caught up in the story. I enjoyed this.

Feb. 2017

for a free game this is great - the battles get a bit hard if your not on the idealised upgrade path however its the story that's the best part of the game anyway so I just dialed down the battle difficulty a bit when it got to being a real chore and enjoyed the game even more. I initially thought the girls all looked a bit similar but its quickly clear that each has a deliberately very different personaility from each other. You get to be their hero - and why not. I'll not say too much but the ending was good and leaves you wanting to buy the next game in the storyline - having saidf that, this one is plenty long enoufgh for a good enjoyable playthrough spo its not a cheap teaser so you buy the next, its a great game in its own right.

Feb. 2017

I downloaded this when it first came out, played for 17 minutes and then stopped for years. Then I was bored and decided to play it again. I had a great time. What an intense ending. The art is poor, though to be fair this is a free indie game. There's not many event CGs and most of the times you just have a background and characters in their standard standing position behind the dialogue screen, whose speaker is hard to follow because the name and the dialogue are separated so far apart. If they changed the dialogue box color for each character, like brown for Ava and red for Asaga, it would have been much better. The gameplay is... laggy? The attack animation is very basic and takes quite long, and I skipped them a lot, but there's no transition or anything. When you click to skip an animation, the screen pauses for a second and then you're already on the next phase. There's no sliding to close the scene or screen fading out to black and opens up to the next scene. This is particularly annoying during the enemy's turn as you may want to skip a lot of enemy's animation. The voice actors are alright. The dialogues aren't voiced and they only speak a few lines during battle. I especially like Ava's voice actor, but Icari's out-of-nowhere tsundere lines are simply horrible. So why did I give a thumbs up? It's the well-written story. The conflict the main character is having actually feels rough, heavy and difficult. It's not a story about choosing which girl to date or anything cheap like that. It's about what kind of leader you want to be. You have a ship to protect. Your morals and professionalism are crossing each other, and the romance just makes it even harder. I only care for one of the girls, but maybe that's just me being me rather than the other romance being poorly written. The story builds up to an AMAZING ending, I'm telling you. I won't spoil anything, but GOD DAMN I'm glad I chose the right option (for me) on that final choice. IT'S SO GOOD!

Jan. 2017

Oh well, I downloaded this one for the waifus, but, surprisingly enough, I found the gameplay part to be quite immersive and challenging, if a bit unpolished. The plot is your standard space opera...with battle spacefaring waifus (too bad there's no real way to pursue a romantic relationship with one of them - the plot is more or less linear in this department). As for the production values, they aren't anything special, but more than adequate for a free game. Overall, a solid experience which got me interested in the pay-to-play sequel.

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Developer

Love in Space

Publisher

Sekai Project

Release 09 Jul 2014

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