The Best Mobile Game Everyone Forgot About

Galaxy on Fire 2 is a mobile & macOS video game you may or may not remember from your childhoods. It's an open-world space shooter, and a game that was way ahead of its time, back when it was released in 2010.

The game sold millions of copies, and yet nobody seems to ever bring it up these days when the topic of old iOS games are discussed. I hope you find some enjoyment out of this video.

To those of you who know me from Discord, I hope you especially enjoy this.

Speaking of the Discord server: discord.gg/sGjYzWs4yA

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Extra notes:

- I forgot to mention Galaxy on Fire: Alliances. This was Fishlabs' attempt at an MMORPG, which sadly flopped. It's an important part of the real-world GoF story, and somehow I neglected to mention it at all!

- I also give special credit at the end to four Fishlabs team members, but there are way more who deserve so much more credit than the quick appearance of their names on screen. To all who I missed - thank you.

- The Steam version of GoF2 is also still playable, but doesn't contain any DLCs.

- I recorded the voiceover long before I met the devs at the Everspace 2 launch party in August '23 - since then I have had more insight and uhh might have another project or two in the works 👀

- I may add more notes here over time. Or not. Who knows?

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DISCLAIMER: I'm aware there are a number of minor editing mistakes in this video, and some segments have no actual footage besides my 'face' cam. I started this gigantic video as a passion project way back in early 2022, possibly 2021. Video essays were all the rage, and I wanted GoF to have its limelight, similar to that video essay on Infinity Blade you may have seen a couple years back. However, to quote Carla Paolini, "times are changing" - and times were indeed changing for me. Life got verrrry busy, and this project gradually was pushed down in my list of priorities, until one day it had been months since I even looked at it.

I tried to return to it many times, hoping to continue it to the same level of quality & dedication as I had done with the first 1/3rd - but I just couldn’t bring myself to continue creating all those motion graphics, flashy edits and so on. Not to mention all the gameplay recording required for it. This truly was a passion project, and unfortunately my passion for it had almost entirely dwindled.

But, so as not to put all my work to waste, I wanted to put this out there, even in its relatively unpolished state. Thanks to @Ayethon and his high quality gameplay recordings, I was able to at least fill the blank spaces with gameplay (with my complete voiceover accompanying it all of course), to at least have a full video with no blank spaces. (afaik I haven’t left any in my mistake).

At worst, this morphs into a podcast in the last half. But I’m happy with what I was able to accomplish overall. It’s a behemoth of a video - a little unpolished - and in retrospect, was way too ambitious to ever finish to the same level as the opening third, unless I worked on it 24/7. This has been in the back of my mind to finish for… about a year now, so it feels good getting it out there at last, despite any jank.

Either way, enjoy! I love this game. Also Eight voice reveal whaaaaaaat

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Music:

- Gero Görlich - GoF2 Soundtrack
- Infinity Blade II - 'Defeating Thane'
- Chris Hendricks - Anchovy Jazz (Second Time Around the Moon)
- Some random royalty-free jazz tracks I found on YouTube

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All footage & music belongs to its respective owners. Galaxy on Fire is owned by Deep Silver Fishlabs. sadly