About This Game STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown! Travel around an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story. Fly around an infinite universe exploring alien worlds, abandoned cities, overrun space-stations, derelict ships, and parallel dimensions with little more than your trusty laser and inept, mechanical bodyguards. Collect and equip hundreds of items, weapons, and armours to help you on your journey. Get swept along in the politics of the year 4135 and lead a rebellion against a corrupt government and powerful corporations. Fight and capture 19 enemy vessels in tactical, bridge-based combat, and hire crew members to boost your fighting skills. Fall foul of strange spatial anomalies, giant space-fish, and human-hating AI programs through dynamic events that can strike at any time. Chose to work for Oberon Bounties and hunt down the scum and villains of the universe, for the Collector’s Guild, Earth Military, or for the mysterious Cicero recently awoken from a 2000 year cryo-nap. And if you fancy a challenge: play the game in ‘Ironman Mode’ where you only get a single chance at making it big.Features:A FULL SANDBOX EXPERIENCE:Explore space, untethered by a constricting story:Choose your gender, starting vessel, and the company that raised you.Undertake many exciting missions which include: boarding space-stations, killing their crew and stealing their tech.Hunting down ferocious beasts on alien worlds.Visiting alien shrines built on ancient asteroids.Steping foot on abandoned medical ships where the undead roam the corridors.Fighting in tactical bridge-based space battles where you can capture new ships or destroy your enemy and use their hull for scrap. And searching for illegal, low-tax settlements to avoid paying the 100% tax imposed by Earth Gov on all purchases.Find hundreds of items:Pick alien flowers for healing chemicals or useable genetic material.Salvage scrap metal to repair and upgrade your mechanical bodyguardsEquip armours, lasers, and grenades to make exploring space less dangerous.Find and use futuristic drugs to boost your skills and health.Chose to work for companies or go it alone:Explore random sectors of space where pirates roam and plunder is there for the taking.Work for Oberon Bounties and hunt down criminals on alien worlds, spacestaions, or in powerful ships.Join the Collectors Guild and bring back strange objects in return for special armours.Join Earth Military and gain discounts on tax, and access new specialist ships.Seek out and work for Cicero: the man with a mission to change the universe.A non-compulsory storylineAll humans are pledged into a company at the age of five and don’t see their family for the next 20 years. You have just graduated from a company of your choosing and your excellent grades have earned you a new shiny ship. Seek out your barely-remembered mother and get caught up in a political struggle that threatens to tear apart 2000 years of beautiful dystopia.Play ‘Ironman Mode’ for a true Roguelike experience.For those that love a challenge: choose to play the game with just a single life.Ironman forces you to think carefully about every decision.Escape pods become a vital part of the game.BRIDGE BASED SHIP COMBAT – ACTION RPG GROUND COMBATFight ship battles from the comfort of your bridge, issuing orders and using your specific skills to destroy or capture enemy vessels.Each ship has a unique missile, laser, and cannon strength, all effective at different ranges.Hire engineers, science officers, and tactical officers to give bonuses to your combat abilities.Disable enemy engines to allow you to get close enough to board them, boost your shields, and beam aboard your mechs to capture their ship once you’ve lowered the enemy shields.Fly 19 unique vessels.Choose to fly a ship with an escape pod and live on even after your ship is destroyed.Walk around on alien planets and creepy space-stations to find loot and accomplish missions.Each ship sports a different number of mech bays which you can use to maintain your mechanical bodyguards.Have up to five allied mechs helping you defeat your enemies.Fight against alien creatures, pirates, corporate militias, space wasps, and AI controlled mechs.Upgrade your mechs to do all the killing for you, or invest in armour, lasers, and various grenades to blow your enemies up in person.PLAY IN FULL HD WITH AN AMAZING SOUNDTRACKPlay the game in resolutions up to 1920x1080.Choose to play with an amazing soundtrack composed by Eric Matyas. (You can find much more of his amazing work @ http://soundimage.org/)Various graphical options for play on older machines. 6d5b4406ea Title: STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures in SpaceGenre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, SimulationDeveloper:Michael FlynnPublisher:FlynnFour GamesRelease Date: 17 Aug, 2015 STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures In Space Download] Likes:- The ambition and scope - it's pretty flexible, and there's on-ship, in-space and on-planet.- Does something not really explored for many years - a bit of FTL, a bit of Star Control, a bit of Sun Dog Legacy, a bit of Star CommandDislikes:- The interface is woefully inconsistent (on some screens WASD, on some screens arrows, on some screens mouse)- Oh, and slow. Where you'd like a table perhaps you get a scrolling list of options in a speech bubble.- It's buggy and inconsistent (which is more a limit of cramming something ambitious into the RPGmaker XP engine)Overall:- I rather like it, despite its shonky nature (that's the Star Command influence at work)- With a better engine and more polish it could concentrate on the bits it does well, and let the engine handle the interface.. Having recently given up on Fortune's Tavern as a hopeless game i tried this one. I wondered long if this one works better and if i should buy it... though i see they both share the same kind of combat engine. Surely this one will work better right? No. It's terrible. And i have come to the conclusion that this game engine just isn't cut for fun action oriented gameplay. Sure you can get this to work somewhat but the fun part is just missing. Combat on ships is something that i can imagine some people love despite(or because) the sluggish way the characters move giving you a stuttering Archon -like linearity to combat. Fortune's Tavern dejavuu is very strong here. The biggest sin i think this game engine brings to the table is that it overshadows the story. You are spendng so much time on being annoyed by it that you just dont even care about the story. Yes i understand, some people like it. But i just can't as there really are WORKING action games such as Secret of Magia that does the action part right. Not going to be spending much ink on the game mechanics itself - i see others have already taken care of that. Instead i am going to just issue a general warning for action games that has this game engine underneath. Now by this i dont mean rpgmaker games generally as i have recently learn't to like a lot of more traditional rpgmaker games but this particular engine that is used on the more action oriented games is just a general disaster and i will avoid it like the plague in the future.. Is this a good game? Don't know. Crashes during the tutorial.. Having recently given up on Fortune's Tavern as a hopeless game i tried this one. I wondered long if this one works better and if i should buy it... though i see they both share the same kind of combat engine. Surely this one will work better right? No. It's terrible. And i have come to the conclusion that this game engine just isn't cut for fun action oriented gameplay. Sure you can get this to work somewhat but the fun part is just missing. Combat on ships is something that i can imagine some people love despite(or because) the sluggish way the characters move giving you a stuttering Archon -like linearity to combat. Fortune's Tavern dejavuu is very strong here. The biggest sin i think this game engine brings to the table is that it overshadows the story. You are spendng so much time on being annoyed by it that you just dont even care about the story. Yes i understand, some people like it. But i just can't as there really are WORKING action games such as Secret of Magia that does the action part right. Not going to be spending much ink on the game mechanics itself - i see others have already taken care of that. Instead i am going to just issue a general warning for action games that has this game engine underneath. Now by this i dont mean rpgmaker games generally as i have recently learn't to like a lot of more traditional rpgmaker games but this particular engine that is used on the more action oriented games is just a general disaster and i will avoid it like the plague in the future.. The game needs a lot more work, it could be great but it appears to be abandoned. There are game breaking bugs and the missions with the factions seem to go nowhere. I hope the dev comes back and updates the game. I hate giving bad reviews, especially since the concept itself is interesting for this game, and there seems to be a lot of content that I just haven't gotten to yet.However, in my very brief time playing, the game has already crashed twice. The look of the game is tacky and appears incomplete, and the game plays very slowly. Even on a high performance machine, I experienced frame drops and the aforementioned crashes; even when the game isn't lagging, it still feels like I'm struggling to execute the controls I want because of the awkward mechanics. I quickly lose desire to play because of how awkward it is to even try.There are some good ideas I see, but those same ideas are better explored in other games I think.Not recommended, unless the developers patch it up and smooth out the rough edges pretty soon.. This game feels like a first attempt at making a game by someone who has no experience making a game before. It's slow, difficult to play, and It's riddled with bugs. The dialogue comes off as being juvenile in nature, so it's difficult to get into from that perspective as well. I wasn't able to play the game past the first hour or so; I found a bug that kept giving me reputation and once I hit 30k or so I somehow ended up walking around in space outside my ship with nowhere to go. At that point, I called it quits and requested a refund. A few examples of what I'm talking about:http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wbpgZWx.pnghttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/55tdVzf.pngThere are plenty of other games made with RPG Maker out there that are worth checking out, if that's your fancy, and I don't even know why anyone is calling this game a roguelike. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that people are excited about making games and such, but this really should have been a private and free release on the dev's website as a hobby and not something commercially sold through Steam. And for ten bucks? You're out of your mind.. Has potential, but the developer needs more experience. that or RPG maker is having issues i did not know about. while i admire the developers attempt, they should probably attempt to polish and streamline the game. Many things are unacounted for, and the games interfaces are extremely clunky. Good Start, but it really needs to be better. I would suggest holding off for a bit longer until the dev gets around to improving his games performance\/ interface and quality in general.. Buggy and unfinished. Never been updated
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