Between the Stars
Isolated Games · 2024 · Space, RPG, Action, Simulation, Indie
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 1,9334playing now
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About Between the Stars
✦ AI summary
Command an interstellar cruiser through a procedurally generated galaxy, managing your ship, crew, and captain's development while battling the Children of the Sun in real-time space combat. Your choices shape your journey across the stars, from text-based encounters that test your leadership to upgradeable ships and crew that determine your survival against overwhelming odds.
Between the Stars is a space action game with RPG growth and real time combat that places you at the helm of an interstellar cruiser. Your mission will be to protect civilization from the Children of the Sun, a faction that dominates border planets and seeks to expand. In order to undertake your mission you must journey across the galaxy, face new challenges at each warp jump, and make difficult decisions that affect your ship, crew and the universe around you, while upgrading your ship's equipment and fighting in battles to survive.
- Fight in intense space battles in real time.
- Use special abilities on your ship at the right moment to make a difference on the battlefield.
- Unlock, upgrade, personalize and buy different playable ships and their systems in order to conquer the galaxy.
- Create a captain and develop them throughout the adventure. Level them up and acquire different attributes depending on your decisions.
- Explore the stellar map and its events generated in a procedural universe.
- Visit space stations and planets across different sectors that make up the galaxy.
- Hire and upgrade your crew in order to face the dangers of the universe. Ensure their safety and cover your casualties, as well as level them up.
- Hundreds of text based events that will pit your capacity as well as your crews against countless dangers.
- Craft, salvage, and investigate new weaponry in order to augment your offensive capabilities.
- Decisions made in one event could change the evolution of the entire playthrough.
- Enjoy a standard difficulty mode or play with permadeath on for a challenge.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Yes... I would recommend this game, but with a Massive Warning Disclaimer. Normally I do Game Reviews because a Game is Super GREAT... or Super Bad. This game is somewhere in the middle of Non-Super. But it's a good game... enjoyable... some differences from other games, and can/should provide many hours of Fun. However... it will also provide Massive Frustration. The biggest of which are the Supposed Choices the player gets to make... when in fact, they are decisions to do what the devs want you to do... or be Punished for not making the decision the Dev felt you should have made. I like games where you can go Left or Right, and depending on your choice you get 1 Good Reward or another based on your choice. But here, anyone who goes Right gets the Good Reward... Go Left and get (not just a Bad Reward, but....) Punished. (i.e., I allowed to crew members to maintain their relationship... I Lost a Leadership point (these points do not come easily); and I didn't even get a bump in Crew Moral or something; just Punished!!! I never post spoilers, but this is 'Spoiler' I'm posting, because you are going to want it. When you meet with the council you need to push attacking now and …3 found this helpful
A simple RPG game which you are a space ship captain. You have a ship and crew. A nice try and fun game alas it is a little basic for my taste. Also Graphics could be better.1 found this helpful
a good indie game, just dont expect too much. few parts were funny.1 found this helpful
NOT a "Review". More like initial thoughts.... I've played the prologue for an hour or so. Fun game. Has a lot of potential. Def looking forward to playing more of this. Their world, outer space, etc, is fairly great looking in-game. RPG dice battles are different but pretty cool. Controls can be a bit wonky but once you get everything where you want it then no issues really.
5
The game is ok for what it is. It's a small indie game. It's not bad, it's not excellent, but it's worth its price. The variety of ships ain't great, the missions gets repetitive quickly enough... but, at that price, it's totally acceptable. The only annoying thing, is how your ship's stats are dependent on the crew. At some point, you will loose crew members through events and storyline. Depending on how high they were, this can seriously impede your stats. The reserve crew, seems to bring no bonus at all, and any equipped medals on them, is basically useless if you remove them from the active crew... They could at least bring part of their bonuses/stats, as it makes no sense to have so much reserve doing nothing. You are, apparently, supposed to move your crew around, so you can get the best stats for research and scrapping etc when needed, but, it's awfully tedious to do, and frankly, pointless. I'd have rather if ALL the crew brought something, and there was "active/reserve" thing while on the ship, as this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Other than that, it's fine to play here and there, just don't expect an epic experience.
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