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 I really wanted to love this game. Needs a lot of polish. Controls are unresponsive and clunky. Enemy movement is random and eratic, combined with poor controls it is a game of special needs cat and mouse. Just level up your mechs and let them do the work until they get dumn and run into a wall while you're getting chased by a bunch of badies. This game could be something amazing, but it's not there yet.. 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.. 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.. Is this a good game? Don't know. Crashes during the tutorial.. 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.. 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
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STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures In Space
Updated: Mar 25, 2020
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