Ranger Vs Space Mutants

In Brief

Ranger Vs Space Mutants is an arena shooter, similar to Space Rangers vs. Reptiloids and Space Rangers vs. Reptiloids: 2 Edition, but none of those are related to the legendary Space Rangers franchise.

Installation:

Ranger vs. Space Mutants downloads to a 38.9 MB zip file that unzips to three files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper the set-up file and a read me). The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed if you wish. The installed game is approximately 39.2 MB in size.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Ranger Vs Space Mutants

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted . If you want the games shortcut to be installed to the desktop, make sure the appropriate checkbox is checked. Even if this is left unchecked you will still get the four internet shortcuts installed to the desktop; (i.e. Falco Space - Online Game!, FalconLine Online Games Website, FalcoGo WebGL Games! and Free Games Downloads!). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure the appropriate checkbox is unchecked when the 'additional task's window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window).

Introduction:

Ranger vs. Space Mutants - Is a dynamic shooter arena. In game you need to fend off wave after wave of mutants. To kill mutants you have 4 types of weapons, during the game you have to collect first-aid kits, ammo for your guns, that are scattered on the map and you'll need to shoot the eggs of the cosmic mutants in order to pull out additional ammo and first-aid kits. If you don't shoot space eggs in time, then mutants will start hatching from them. In game you'll meet bosses, for which additional achievements are given.

You need to survive all the waves of mutants to progress to the next level.

The Game:

I had some difficulty getting the game to work this morning, and mistakenly though the game was badly bugged as I kept running out of ammo within seconds then dying. On rebooting the game, I had no ammo so kept dying. It wasn't until I installed my Steam version (which I purchased May 2018 & which had remained un-played until today) that I found the game was purposely left with little ammo to give it a hardcore feel. To find more ammo you have to destroy the eggs, some of which reveal ammunition of two types one for each of the two weapons you have at the start of the game, (later you'll find two more weapons), plus health packs are dropped. You can see the state of your health and the amount of ammo for the weapon you have selected at the top of the game board. You need to keep an eye on these as ammo is limited and health can be lost very quickly when you encounter the mutant aliens. There's also ammo found at the starting arrow, just north of where you first start the game. I'd missed this when I first booted up the giveaway version, and after several minutes of constantly dying simply becasue i didn't have any ammo, then rebooting and dying again I became very frustrated with the game and gave up. Killing enemies also drops ammo and health.

I found the game pretty hardcore and although I was able to hold my own for longer, I was still unable to survive to the end of the first level, so gave up after about half an hour.

If you enjoy playing challenging retro looking arena shooters, then Ranger Vs Space Mutants is a game worth downloading. The game is very basic both game play wise and graphically, with no ability to remap your keyboard. There are seven difficult levels to navigate to the end. (Personally I found the developers Space Rangers vs Reptiloids much better game play wise).

The Steam version includes 10 achievements, one each for completing the seven levels, plus an achievement for killing one boss, maiming a boss and one other. Steam community members give Ranger Vs Space Mutants an almost overwhelming negative review, and one You-Tuber posts details of how this particular developer has released lots of asset-flipped games, some of which have been really controversial; and sold them via multiple accounts to avoid his frequent bans from Steam. You can see that video HERE.

The game is still available on Steam HERE as are other games by this developers (under different names), despite what was said in the previous video. On Steam the game usually costs £2.89/$3.99/€ 3.29, but is on sale at the moment with 80% off (£0.57/$0.79/€0.65). At least three of the developers games to my knowledge have been removed from Steam for various infringements.

You can see two videos of game play, (both in Russian) HERE and HERE.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting the game to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Zazulin Alexander and the distributor Falcoware games for giving away Ranger Vs Space Mutants and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing more free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If Ranger Vs Space Mutants doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums). The free game over at epic games is Slime Rancher a first person sandbox action adventure game with management elements and a female protagonist. It's free until March 27th. worth £14.99/$19.99/€19.99. Indie Gala also have a new showcase section with 18 free games listed at the moment including adventure, RPG, Simulation, strategy and casual games i.e. AntiSquad, Dreaming Sarah, False Birth, GOR - Gorilla Office Rampage, Home is where Chip is, Age of Fear: The Free World, Die Legende von Saya: Befehl aus der Dunkelheit - (The Legend of Saya: Command from the Dark), What Never Was, The Last Humans: Awakening, Childhood, Dunwell, Safe Not Safe, Hi Hotel, Bugs Must Die, Cuadradito y Circulito, Hellino, Hovership Havoc and Wake Up , or you can find them all HERE. Finally, there are some excellent bargains on sale via Steam HERE (71 pages with 25 per page).