Star Story: The Horizon Escape

Star Story: The Horizon Escape

EvilCoGames · September 5, 2017 · Adventure, RPG, Choices Matter, Multiple Endings, Text-Based

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Star Story: The Horizon Escape price by region

Star Story: The Horizon Escape costs €1.39 in Europe (EUR), $1.53 in the United States, $1.53 in Georgia (USD), £2.01 in the United Kingdom, CA$16.99 in Canada, NZ$17.99 in New Zealand, A$19.35 in Australia, zł23.61 in Poland and R$27.99 in Brazil right now.

Cheapest Star Story: The Horizon Escape offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Europe (EUR) €1.39 −90% €13.49 €1.39 9
United Statesyour region $1.53 −89% $13.49 $1.53 10
Georgia (USD) $1.53 −85% $9.99 $1.53 9
United Kingdom £2.01 −80% £9.89 £2.01 7
Canada CA$16.99 CA$16.99 — 3
New Zealand NZ$17.99 −10% NZ$17.99 — 3
Australia A$19.35 −10% A$19.35 — 3
Poland zł23.61 −56% zł53.99 zł23.61 5
Brazil R$27.99 R$27.99 R$33.48 4

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About Star Story: The Horizon Escape

✦ AI summary

Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a turn-based text adventure where you crash-land on a mysterious planet and must survive through exploration, crafting, puzzles, and combat while making branching choices that lead to 24 wildly different endings. With no time pressure, quirky characters, and emergent gameplay where creative solutions like throwing lockpicks at droids actually work, it's a narrative sandbox that rewards experimentation and lets you become a hero, villain, or space shrimp enthusiast entirely on your own terms.

What is Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
The archaeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. Can you escape from this planet? But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? Do you have a plan? Will you find what it takes to be a hero?

Sounds great! Give me more details!
Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a turn-based adventure game with text-rpg elements.
Tune into the story of the aspiring space-archaeologist Van Klik on his mission to the mysterious planet of Horizon!
  • Non-linear plot development, 24 alternative endings


    Your choices define the story. Totaly. Some will turn out better than others, some will worse and some will be straight up hilarious. You are to find the real true ending among your possible destinies and become a hero. Or maybe something more...
  • Text-based gameplay diversity


    The core classic. Dive into the stories and find a way to exploit EVERY possible situation. Did you know that if you throw a lockpick at an attack droid, it will decide that you are stupid and will deactivate? Build your character, choose your alignments, learn the lore of the world. You will need it all to succeed.
  • Game mechanics


    The story will throw a mix of dialogues, choices, turn-based battles, puzzles, weapon and resource crafting, technology research and more at you. You will use all you can to survive the challenging world of Horizon.
  • Turn-based philosophy


    The player decides on the speed that he wants to play the game at. Everything is turn-based. There is no time-limit for making decisions, no quick-time events, no rush: you can take any amount of time to make your turn.
  • Beautiful world


    Enjoy the wild and crazy sceneries of the world of Horizon. Deserts, jungles, cities, underground caverns… the list goes on.
  • Colorful characters


    Meet the locals! Who is more to your liking? Side with “Bullet King” and uncover an ancient cryptic artifact. Or choose to undermine his brutal regime and make the local revolutionary your friend. Or screw them and go try to play romance with the alien girl? Or blow up the planet? Or… You get it!

Need A break? The Horizon Is Waiting!


P.S. Space shrimps are included...

Star Story: The Horizon Escape — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a text-driven narrative adventure with stat-based dialogue choices, but players find it too simplistic and repetitive to warrant multiple playthroughs despite its polished presentation. Common complaints include limited visual resolution, the lack of voice acting, poor translation in places, and the sense that meaningful choices don't substantially alter the overall progression or story paths. Most reviewers suggest this is a one-time experience at best, with some finding the core mechanics lazy and the replayability lacking.

Not recommended Jul 4, 2022
Although this game seems polished for what it is, a text driven narrative with different choices & no character movement, the game is difficult for me to recommend. In some ways, it is too simple for me to want to replay it more than once, as playthroughs take at least an hour each. This is an adventure game more than an RPG, as it's RPG elements come down to the player's dialog choices and having 3 different stats. Here's what you need to know: -Game has an upper limit of 1080p resolution. Not that higher res matters much with hand drawn things. -No voice acting, which mightve engaged me in the story more, but maybe not. +Choices do matter in terms of the story ending, but... -Choices that matter don't seem to change much about where you end up going. ?You don't control your character's movement, but as you move through an area, some choices come up about how to interact with things. +The ability to handle situations differently based on abilities or items you have was well done. -Some gadgets didn't make sense to have as 1 time use, such as boots or grappler. ?Crafting systems were decent as the items craftable are based on 3 stats earned, but... -To progress effective…
5 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 23, 2025
[h1][b]Not Recommended[/b][/h1]
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 21, 2024
Each time you have to start over and go through the same paths without the possibility of missing anything
3 found this helpful
Not recommended Mar 6, 2021
Poor translation in many places. Mechanics feel lazy. Really didn't like it.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 9, 2021
Met Alien girl, befriended her, died a romanticed death. Resurrected, received a message for one EvilCo Company. Read it, and was made rate the game. 9/10. Would rate again. Fun so far.
Recommended Apr 28, 2021
So far so good...

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