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. 7aa9394dea 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 Without Verification I'll be frank, i am stinn unsure to thumb up or down.The game is fun to play, atleast untill you start finding a lot of stuff repetetive.Beam down, hope mechs kill and don't get killed run to find loot and go to next area. If mechs killed: continue running untill you reach portal and beam out.It was fun at first but as i said, the missions seems a lot alike, the most profitable think you do is take over enemy ships.Using stat increasing items might have a bad effect in about 1\/5 chanceStill have NO idea what the stats does except health.Some missions are broken (Supposed to enter planet but it says you alreaddy have done it)At one point you get the option to rework a space station for some money. He said i could check the progress anytime. about 2~ hours later i have no idea what it did. (It also came as 2 quests, one for goverment to save hosteges in a space station, but you cant find\/save the hosteges? breaks that quest, and a second one reuse the facility which you finish but never hear of again.The only reason i thumbs up it now is because i have the hope they will fix it and make more content.. Exploring the randomly generated planets and ships is pretty fun. There is a lot of depth and an infinite amount of area to explore. I like the idea of the game, where you have robot assistants doing the fighting, while you run around "collecting samples" ie looting. The lag is due to how bad the RPG maker engine is for this type of game. To imporove the controls, I suggest using a gamepad and the joy2key program to map the keyboard keys to the gamepad. In the Star-Box folder in your steam Common folder you can edit the config.ini file to matche your desktop resolution. I would also suggest turning on frame rate limit in your graphic cards game profile to limit screen tearing. In the game you can press F1 for the settings menu. Overall for the price, if you use the tweaks I suggest above, the game is fun but the combat lag can be annoying.. After several CTD string errors, how my screen isn't centered when playing around with resolution and how the controls with the mouse give up randomly, I'd say this game isn't ready to be played without frustration. Concept is interesting but overall lack of integrity to gameplay breaks any hope you may have for it right now. There is plenty else to be said but these are the really serious ones that this game needs fixing.. Ok so this game is quirky, it is fun, and it is definitely different. It is an A-RPG at it's core, with a story, albeit short at the moment. I do recommend you give this game a shot, if you had fun with other ARPG's, even Binding of Isaac fans could really get into this, altough it has more in terms of items, and managing things. I guess I will do the standard Pros and Cons for people here. . .Pros:1: Game has fun old-school style graphics (I enjoy at least, not everyone's cup of tea I understand though)2: You control a starship and crew, with mechs to help you in battle if you choose3: Action-RPG that rewards skill, as opposed to just rewarding grinding as many turned based RPG's do (This is not turned based obviously being an ARPG4: Many upgrades for yourself, and upgrades for your mechs5: You can board enemy ships, to take them as your own, or buy a better ship if you want instead6: You can choose to play as a fighter or a commander, either going in and leveling while killing, or letting mechs do the work and staying in the back7: The price of this game is very low, and IMHO you will get your money's worth of hours of fun8: Walking around areas, using the action key, you find genetic material or download data or find parts to upgrade mechs all space stations and stuff. Stuff that looks like part of the scenery, actually holds value, which I find endearing. It doesn't stick out, and scream "COME GET ME." You have to use your brain on this one folks.Cons:1: There are some bugs, although the developer responded FAST on the boards, then patched some problems same day.2: The resolutions are a bit funky, and you must restart the game for them to take effect, some of them cause the game to be half off the screen, at least on my monitor.3: The controls are a bit wonky as well, as how you move is very basic, 4 directions only for facing, can't fire in diagonal, and to fire you push numbers 1 thru 4, while using the WASD to move, is very hard on the fingers. (Can use numpad to move to make it a lot easier, not sure if you can rebind firing keys, as that would be very handy)4: Taking Damage from enemies can be somewhat delayed \/ non-informative. They fire 4 or 5 shots at you, and each does 400 damage, and you die near instantly before being able to react.5: From what I can tell, there is not information when killing an enemy on experience earned, or how far from a level you are, or what is in those brown sacks they drop that you pick up. I assume it is credits, but it gives no information.All in all, this game is a good buy, and the developer has already commented that he is looking into adding the ability to build your own space station in the game. Things like that, are so unique to a game like this, and I love that he is considering it, and not just going and doing the same tropes that 3\/4's of the developers do nowadays.. In the tutorial you are posed with the opportunity to capture a ship. The opposing mechs and captain are significantly stronger than you and you will die quickly. What a tutorial.I will probably play this game more but damn dude have a heart, you almost broke my interest in continuing to play.. If you want to help this guy raise his new baby, and be there to hold his hand through his first attempt at making a game, then this game is for you. If you want a sandbox RPG that gets updated and runs well without a dozen bugs hitting you in the face every 5 minutes, look elsewhere. The game looks cool, seems like a good idea, but it is my opinion that this developer has little to no experience making games. The game isnt optimized, runs like crap on new systems, the options menu is an abysmal joke, and there are soooooo many bugs, its not worth $10. If this game goes on sale for $3, it would be worth it. But it seems that releasing new DLC is more improtant than polishing this jagged rusty hunk o junk. I wrote this bad review after seeing that he released DLC that has nothing to do with fixing the games jagged edges. (Note to the Dev) DLC is for AFTER the game is released, otherwise, it seems like you are just collecting money for a broken game. Pets should be free for having to put up with this hunk o crap. Youd be better off getting Junk Jack on iOS for $.99. 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.. Exploring the randomly generated planets and ships is pretty fun. There is a lot of depth and an infinite amount of area to explore. I like the idea of the game, where you have robot assistants doing the fighting, while you run around "collecting samples" ie looting. The lag is due to how bad the RPG maker engine is for this type of game. To imporove the controls, I suggest using a gamepad and the joy2key program to map the keyboard keys to the gamepad. In the Star-Box folder in your steam Common folder you can edit the config.ini file to matche your desktop resolution. I would also suggest turning on frame rate limit in your graphic cards game profile to limit screen tearing. In the game you can press F1 for the settings menu. Overall for the price, if you use the tweaks I suggest above, the game is fun but the combat lag can be annoying.
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