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NEBULOUS: Fleet Command
Developer Eridanus Industries
Take command of your hand-tailored fleet of space warships and use realistic radar, electronic warfare, advanced movement controls in 3D space, and precision targeting to outmaneuver and outwit your opponents in a simulation-heavy tactical space game like no other. From the Steam store page
309 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
57
Mixed
165 positive · 122 negative
95% range 52–63%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 165 | 122 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 5 | 0 | 16 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,132 of 3,858 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Split audience: some love the depth, others hate the community and lack of content.
Many players praise the game's depth and realism, calling it the best 3D space combat sim. However, a significant number criticize the toxic community and lack of single-player content. [9][19][1][24][36]
Some players allege the developers banned a popular modder for political reasons, while others defend the ban. The game's steep learning curve and meta-focused multiplayer also draw criticism. [21][17][2][5]
Praised depth and realism · campaign update
Criticised toxic community · steep learning curve · lack of single-player content · meta-focused multiplayer
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 8, 2026. Method
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
NEBULOUS: Fleet Command sits at 57% positive across 287 opinionated reactions from 3 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 309 · most liked firstThe devs banned a guy from their Discord because they posted an Arch Warhammer stream of it. Guy had created mods and had hundreds of pages of posts in the servers. After struggle sessioning him for hours they banned him like the cowardly leftists they are.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I never leave reviews. This is my first. It is rather long, but please consider bearing with me here. It takes a very, very good - or equally bad - game for me to even consider leaving a review. Even so, I have a small handful of particularly notable games that I feel deserve mention. Nebulous: Fleet Command has long been on that small list, and I've been meaning to give it a glowing positive review for some time. It is a solid game that is innovative, fills a unique, criminally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →banned for violation of terms of service: other player complained that my ship was a hospital ship and thus a 'war crime'. Game owner perma banned over aestetic of a ship, which was SFW. Be wary of investing money into the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: I love the idea Nebulous: Fleet Command but, in it's current state, no longer find enjoyment playing it. The toxic community gatekeeps learning how to play and has effectively killed the game, at least until the campaign comes out. Nebulous is the best designed RTS game I have ever played. Most RTSes fail to pick a single scale at which the player should operate and instead ask players to act as an entire command structure. For instance, in the Homeworld franchise, the player is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game, but there is no way i can recommend this to anyone who doesn't already play it. Sadly this game is undergoing what killed mordhau, multiplayer lobbies are so scarce it's essentially the same 30 dudes who play the same builds and lobbies forever, and there is no secondary option for a casual match outside of making one with friends yourself. The campaign is the only hope this game has at this point, otherwise it's just the same stagnant playerbase that will eventually get tired of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've recently had the opportunity to again work on concept art for the latest update of the fabulous game Nebulous: Fleet Command, the Carrier update! I can now happily share these concepts with you in this thread! 🧵 (1/9) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJJi...
neutral · AI labelView post →Let me be clear. I *Love* this game, it is truly one of a kind. And I intend to play it more, Lots more. But I can't in good taste recommend it to a new player. There are a few major things that make me hesitant to recommend it to anyone. For additional context, This game may someday have a campaign. It does not have one as of writing so I review this as a *Pure* multiplayer game. Not a single player experience. The Good. - The game plays *Butter smooth* everything falls into place like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a good game, just steer clear of the discord cesspool where celebrating political murder is allowed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Developer who exclusively listens to a gaggle of inner circle hypercompetitive superfans while gaslighting other players into accepting godawful balance changes with "you'll like it" or "you don't know what it is that you want actually". Cancelled conquest* mode because a certain circle of loud hyperoptimizers couldn't make meta fleets, who then proceeded to complain loudly about this, then stated that the conquest* mode had always been bad despite a year+ worth of devlogs stating it was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev is censoring criticism, by hiding critical discussions in subforums or by outright deleting them - so you don't see how toxic the community is, how the gold rank veterans like to sealclub new players by stacking lobbies or even harass them for "bad" ship builds, .. How the playerbase is less than 100 and you have to wait 1 - 2 hours to find a match, how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the performance is especially with carriers in a match, how the balance is a total mess, how arcady and unrealistic the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend at the moment. The multiplayer of the game is pretty much the main thing the game has going for it, and it's ruined by a few high levels who think themselves better than the rest. Which actively drives away other players through them being complete axxholes to newer players. Which only makes the games low player count worse. Some will even go as far to hold lobbies hostage if the new player doesn't want to play their way. Hard recommend not buying the game until the campaign…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To start this off, this is a fun game. It's very cool, I like the design elements and it does feel like a really good space naval warfare game, fun for those who like Sea Power and similar games - this is even a bit more "exciting" than most milsim naval warfare games. The maps are OK, they're geared towards 20-45 minute matches assuming no cheese is involved, which is fine for the most part. Cheese *is* an issue you will face playing any multiplayer match, a coordinated team can simply spam…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is in a nice state currently. At face value, it's fun and even moreso with friends. I definitely consider this game if you're able to ignore the following: The cesspool of a "community" this game has. Unfortunately the people who play this game are so far on the spectrum that their social skills and emotions are underdeveloped, they cannot fathom someone new learning the game. No matter what you do, if you're new, you will get hazed and hated on, especially if you're a blue (new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can not fully recommend this game if you are looking for a interesting fleet-battle simulator. EDIT after campaign update : Did the first jump after intro map, not too concerned with this game at the moment; Game has a campaign now, with coop/single player battles and a choosable-path to an end objective across multiple maps. Good intro and voiceover for the intro. Extra screens for limited repair&resupply between maps, no fleet editing at all in campaign, it seems. Let me repeat that:…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Can't recommend at all. The game has decent foundation, but it is plagued by some absolute nonsense mechanics, combined with toxicity from the higher rank clique. Here's a list of problems that have made me uninstall with disgust: 1. Ships and missiles in the game follow Newton physics for the most part, however, craft (carrier launched shuttles) do not. As a result, lower caliber weapons (100mm,120mm) have trouble doing meaningful damage to them with their respective explosive rounds,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm gonna be completely honest, I'm only giving this a positive review because I can see the sheer love that went into making this game. Having said that, holy absolute ♥♥♥♥ on a stick, I think this game might just be completely impenetrable unless you're willing to spend a hundred hours on just trying to learn the basics. Let me walk you through what will happen. You will complete the tutorials, thinking you have a grasp on the game, and go to a skirmish. On the prebuilt fleets, you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm very disappointed to find that the developers of the game seem to think that harassment of its players is acceptable. Until Eridanus Industries corrects the recent ban, and issues an apology to the Discord User, I cannot in good faith endorse this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →*Sigh* This one hurts. I've been playing Nebulous on and off for a while and I genuinely do enjoy the game. The sensor tracks and ELINT is just *chefs kiss.* So why the negative review? The devs banning someone for simply posting Arch's stream to their discord. Kitkat, the person who was banned, wasn't just some random either. He was a prolific modder and content creator for the game for YEARS. Not that actually matters, this is still scummy even if it was some rando that joined yesterday. All…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No singleplayer content in the way that was promised, therefore no positive review by me. I gave them nearly a year since their whole "Singleplayer is too hard" update, since they promised to work on a different version of the singleplayer mode they had been working on, dropping that version as a busted beta that will never be updated. I did not buy this game to play in a discord or to have to listen to people with over 100 hours throw hissy fits.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If ever there was a neutral option, this would be the game for it. Hot damn, the damage is fun. If you get even just a meme fleet going with a solid idea, its fun to mess around and watch the carnage in testing mode. The soundscape and damage effects are really well made, and the DC system is well thought out. The modular design system is neat because it allows you to make 2 ships on the same hull with different roles, and it massively opens the options for what you can do ingame. The 2…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I missed the recent release of this big update for NEBULOUS: Fleet Command, the beloved 2022 Expanse-like game. "Fleets come alive with the buzz of small spacecraft darting between capital ships, running recon, delivering precise torpedo strikes, and engaging in chaotic dogfights."
neutral · AI labelView post →Extremely small and toxic playersbase. There's less than 100 people still playing this game at any given time, so you wait around hours for a match to start, only to get insulted for not having a perfect meta fleet. And the game gives no information why a certain fleet build is supposedly bad.. I should have listened to all the negative reviews, but I thought how bad can it be? Yeah, it's really ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad. Worse, the gold rank veterans apparently like to stack lobbies against new players.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The video game itself is great, there is nothing quite like it. I adore it, love it to death and could never get tired of it. But I can only truly enjoy a fraction of the game's content because of the community. "Elitist" is putting it mildly. Not everyone is like this, not all of the high ranks are morally bankrupt, but a fair few of them are. To them, there is no room for casual play in the casual lobbies; you will either play perfectly or be mauled. Newbies are actively discouraged from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looked promising, and it was a lot of fun figuring out the mechanics with friends in private lobbies. But what the tutorials teach is little to nothing compared to what's expected from players among the small toxic community that this game has garnered My experience with the official discord was nothing more than being stomped on repeatedly with no help or guidance as to how to improve and what to learn. Granted, that's no one's responsibility nor was I expecting that. But it's easy…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dying game. I don't regret buying it or anything it's nice as an idea but it's been years of early access, painfully slow development, and the fact they are probably never going to finish the original campaign that would blow this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ homeworld knockoff we got as a replacement out of the water and make this a genre changing game. I wouldn't count on the modding community much its been getting quieter and quieter despite some fantastic mods. The dev team is small and for some reason have…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here is my new custom symbiote, Nebulous!!!! I love how he turns out!!! It's based on Dark Gaia Minions from Sonic Unleashed (my all-time favorite game) Art by @2dnic0.bsky.social ◇ #Venom ◇ #Symbiote ◇ #Venomsona
neutral · AI labelView post →This publisher treats its customers like trash, do not buy. Banning ppl for saying "In my experience women play D&D not Warhammer" Disgusting behavior
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seen this game played by multiple youtubers, but if you happen to post the WRONG youtuber playing it (and praising it) then even if you were a long time fan, you'll get banned from their official discord. They devs are also quite fond of making one faction much better than the other to the point that 70% of the playerbase only wants to play that one faction and thus makes casual games nearly impossible to find as people will just join the server, see there are no slots on ANS, and leave. If you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If I could give it a neutral, I would. This game has excellent premise, the battle ends up looking and feeling pretty good, there are no noticeable technical problems, but... It often feels like the game hates the player. There's a severe lack of qol stuff and some decisions are outright anti-player. Tell me, why in this deep strategic game about long range voidfleet battles we can't have permanent makers for the last known enemy position and movement vector on map? Are we not supposed to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wish I could refund the game honestly, when I bought it things were looking bright.... there was a livley moding community with a promised conquest mode on the way.... Then the dev decided that they didn't want to do a conquest mode because they didn't like the fact that logistics wins wars, scrapped almost all the plans that were related to that that were a large chunk of the reason I bought the game, and decided to replace it all with a linear as ♥♥♥♥ campaign that removes the ability to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is multiplayer only and lets just say that the playerbase is uh problematic at best. Coupled with an almost vertical learning curve, bad tutorials and an insular community thats openly hostile to new players, i cant really recommend it. Especially after they canceled work on the single player experience(domination)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a really fun game but is very complicated and has a terrible community that is very unfriendly and sometimes just hostile and/or toxic, the game will sadly never be succesful with its current insular player base
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good depth but just the same group of dudes circle jerking eachother with the same build over and over. Also seem to police wrongthink in the discord quite heavily. Expected behaviour from volunteer discord mods on a power trip. Avoid.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Banned their own modders, because they watched a youtuber they didn't like, now they are freaking out attacking players. Nice. Terrible company, horrific display of anti-player behavior.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's simple, don't play this game. You will always get outplayed. You can have a completely fine team comp, you can have a completely fine ship design, you could have the blessings of any god you choose. You will still get rolled. I'm relatively sure a good 90% of games I have played I have lost, I have 400+ hours, there is a learning curve, this is not from a newbie. I have learned from games I have played in the past to perfect my craft, does it matter? No, no matter how much you learn…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Repeated someone else's review as it perfectly echoes what I myself believe. I bought this product and supported it from the very start. suggested it to all my friends. It turns out someone of my opinions as basic as they are would be banned and abused in the very games official discord with absolutely nothing done about it from the moderators this publisher has in their service. Its a shame the developers have to suffer because of what their publisher is and how they act. but these are the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →we've released Act 1 (of 2) of the campaign for Nebulous today, so if you think Nebulous is a game for you, check it out!!! there's a demo on the storepage and Hooded Horse is running a sale- if you already have it, please consider leaving a review aoourghh
neutral · AI labelView post →I really think this game has potential and explores some exciting mechanics. Though quite complex and rough to learn, it has a very in-depth strategy aspect that tickles the brain just right. However, I cannot in good faith recommend a game whose developers are so blatantly political that they will cast out members of their own community for simply having other views. Recently, in their official discord server, a fan posted a video from a streamer who enjoyed the game and gave it praise. This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Toxic community managers killed the game. They'll ban you for liking things they don't. Absolutely unhinged behavior. Last I checked Levi jeans didn't ban me for liking Pewdiepie
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Empty Shell, 4 year later pve campaign canceled. If i could refund now, i would. Edit, that was not the campaign that got canceled, but conquest. At the moment still no campaign but who knows. At the moment,:Fan boy can say what they want. That too long for too little.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game can be fun. But the campaign is not what the game "promotes"; no Customization and no Skirmish except against pre-build fleets. BUT, the much worse thing is, these dev's are bad people. Just watch this stream to see what happened and check the steam forums. youtube.com/watch?v=JuGpAfmZ1_0 I do not recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fine, it's the devs that are the problem. Leftism is a disease which can only be excised, nothing more, nothing less. Don't support leftists. Spend your money on people who won't disrespect you or want your life.exe uninstalled for simply being yourself.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Remember what you did to Kitkat?
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Attacking your customers is a horrible idea regardless of their political affiliation and lukewarm takes. It has nothing to do with the product you are selling, it encourages people who put any faith into your brand to advise people not to buy your product and advise other people to also not buy it because it is generally a bad idea to do business with people who despise you and no amount of loyalty- to the point of being a community member and making mods for the game- will ever be good enough…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been waiting for the single player to be released / 1.0 and exit of Early Access before sinking my teeth into the game. After seeing how unfinished it was. I figured it would have been unfair to d leave a negative review of frustration when I first played. It was clearly an unfinished product when I played it. But four years later, it still has not. I'm leaving a review after getting fed up waiting. Lets take a look at the dev's progress in the last year (since January 2025): - 1 'major'…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fantastic game, love the modders and the campaign and how lovely the game is to play pvp but screw the discord moderators who ruin a good game community for not liking users who enjoy Youtuber videos wanting to show off their game. Most useless discord mods ever.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just another intolerant developer that bans people for wrongthink.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay demo for Tuned Heart, a 1996 strategy role-playing game on PC-98. What if your biker gang was made up entirely of cute girls? That's all the pitch I need. Nebulous Translations recently patched the game in English, which I mention for no reason: nebulous.group/index.php/pr... #chosting
neutral · AI labelView post →Decent game, horrible community and devs. Seems attacking and harassing people who disagree is acceptable here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is great, gameplay is mid cold war themed with reduced scale, combat is very fun in MP and the couple of SP missions available on the workshop. The campaign is nonexistent beyond some tutorial missions that ill prepare you for multiplayer. The game itself is currently entirely multiplayer with only some private skirmish games vs AI available for solo players. The worst part about this game really is the community, the experienced players will treat you like ♥♥♥♥ till you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →got this game a long time ago. i really liked it but it has recently come to my attention just how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ toxic the community for this game has become, or maybe it always was and i didnt see it then. regardless if youre looking to play this game and arent an outspoken liberal dont bother interacting with the discord at all. it really is a shame. i had some decent interactions back then and the game is complex enough that you really could use a mentor to help learn it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →good game, HOWEVER!!!! They banned their own modders, because they watched a youtuber they didn't like, now they are freaking out attacking players. What the Hell?! Terrible company, horrific display of anti-player behavior. Do not support them! They dont deserve it anymore.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another politically captured game that had potential before the developers put there politics before the product
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The addition of a campaign has finally gotten me to play this game beyond a couple of tutorials and I've enjoyed the first act of the campaign so far. I think really the only Major thing that can truly cement this game as one I come back to at least semi-frequently will be the inclusion of a customizable conquest mode or something similar that allows us to make tactical and strategic decisions on a grander scale, allowing us to control fleets both big and small which we design for the missions…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IDK why the game developers are banning modders for no reason but I don't see the point in this game with no mods, and the devs really hate modders I guess. Shame as I was about to learn the game finally as I had freetime but too late for refunds and it's important to stand up for modders against those who abuse them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is pretty good, i would give it 7-8/10 but the developer... oh the developer, bans people for disagreements, ignores feedback(seems to genuenly hate people giving their opinions and ideas), and guessing by how much they show of their fetishes are probably "friendly" with children too.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a big fan of the realism with mechanics like radar, ewar, missile tracking. The game strikes a balance between that realism and something more simple/accessible for people who might have a learning curve. Despite this, the controls can take some getting used to as they wrestle to manage 3d movement and camera angles in some very cramped and tight maps full of unrealistic physical obstacles. I do like the game, but it moves very slow if you haven't already spent a long time with it to get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hooded Horse doesn't have anything to do with the recent controversy. Review negative as the community has too many unwritten rules, if the game is being balanced and built around these, then put a community document in the game with a quick rundown of the norms EX Most games of nebulous involve fleets of 3K points a player. I do like that there are no hard limits in this to let people play whatever they want with their friends but the community is too toxic and elitist for newer players oh…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is fun but the community can be rather...intense, to put it politely. I have a suspicion the devs and their community team would hate my guts if they knew anything about me and I can't recommend the game to my friends if I think the devs would also hate them.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Check out the discord. If you like the community and instantly find yourself hooked, then buy Nebulous. If what i just said is off putting and not you, never come back. If you are not actively involved with the community, then you will never like it. There are 2 endings: 1. The devs finish the game after years of development with enough content to comeback. 2. They lose interest and drop it completely. Remember, this game is an Early Access title, and while there is a ""sizable"" amount of…
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