Rakuten

Rakuten is a physics-based space shooter where you pilot a rocketship, fight enemy spacecraft and unlock upgrades for your ship’s capabilities and weapons. You can battle friends or team up in player-versus-player and player-versus-environment modes.

Flying and fighting

Steer left or right and accelerate forwards as you pilot your rocketship. Shoot asteroids, bots and other players in randomly generated asteroid fields. Online matches support up to eight players, and combat uses a physics-based system.

Enhancements

You unlock enhancements and can upgrade existing ones to improve your stats. They cover movement, durability, energy, shields and weapons:

• Thrusters: increase maximum acceleration.
• Dampeners: improve the effectiveness of the inertial dampeners.
• Boosters: unlock a temporary increase to maximum acceleration.
• Hull: increase maximum health.
• Regenerative Hull: unlock automatic health regeneration.
• Hull Regeneration: increase the health regeneration rate.
• Energy Capacity: increase maximum energy capacity.
• Energy Generation: increase the energy generation rate.
• Shields: unlock shields.
• Shield Capacity: increase maximum shields.
• Shield Regeneration: increase the shield regeneration rate.
• Turret: let you fire projectiles independently of your rocketship’s orientation.
• Blaster Cannon Damage: increase the damage dealt by blaster cannon bolts.
• Missiles: unlock a launcher for homing missiles.
• EMP Missiles: unlock a second launcher for EMP missiles, which deal twice as much damage as regular missiles but only against shields.
• Missile Damage: increase the damage of missiles and EMP missiles.
• Missile Capacity: increase maximum missile capacity.
• Missile Fabrication: increase the rate at which missiles are made ready to launch.
• EMP Missile Capacity: increase maximum EMP missile capacity.
• EMP Missile Fabrication: increase the rate at which EMP missiles are made ready to launch.
• Point Defence Cannon: unlock a cannon for shooting down missiles and close-range ship-to-ship combat.
• PDC Damage: increase the damage of point defence cannon rounds.