Little-Known Galaxy
Carbon & Kay · 2024 · RPG, Casual, Cozy, Farming Sim, Sci-fi
PC
Very Positive89% · 671
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About Little-Known Galaxy
Little-Known Galaxy is a cozy single-player RPG space adventure full of friendly characters, exploration, crafting, and farming.Story!
Join Space Alliance as a new captain-in-training and work with your quirky crew to solve the mysteries of an ancient relic found on the Grey Planet. What mysteries will it uncover? What kind of adventure lies ahead? And who will you meet along the way? It’s up to you now Captain. Remember to support your crew, follow your heart, and always take care of each other.
Gameplay!
- Customize your space - Whether you like to maximize your resource production with machines, or enjoy planting a collection of fresh crops, it’s up to you. With tons of machines, decorations, furniture, wall patterns, floor textures, paths and more, you can customize your living space just the way you like. Expand your living quarters. Configure your deck space. You can even build on the outer hull of the ship itself!
- Crafting, Farming, & Cooking - Craft a range of useful machines and decorations using your workbench. Grow, nurture, and harvest crops right aboard your ship. Then of course cook some delicious recipes in your upgraded kitchen. Outer Hull Planters? What kind of crops would grow in the vacuum of space?
- Befriend your crew - Families, friends, and singles are all excited to welcome you to your very own cozy space ship community. You will start out with a tight-knit crew of 20 aboard your ship, but you will be sure to meet many new friends along the way. You will build relationships through daily dialogues, sharing gifts, story cinematics, mission objectives, and eventually you will get to know each one intimately throughout your long journey together. The more you develop these relationships, the more your tiny community will feel like home.
- Xeno - Hatch and raise a variety of cute little aliens known as Xeno. Give them plenty of love, attention, and food to watch them grow.
- Restore your ship - Your Restoration Ray will clean up anything small, but upgrades purchased in the Machine Shop will help to restore broken or vacant areas aboard your ship. These upgrades will unlock new features, new crew opportunities, and help rebuild your ship community once again.
- Explore new worlds - Your spaceship can take you to far-away and undiscovered planets. Explore alien worlds and scavenge for a large variety of resources useful for building new machines, upgrading your tools, and completing your missions. Be warned though… you will no doubt encounter wild alien lifeforms that are less than friendly on each planet. Keep your cool and give them a zap from your trusty Laser Blaster.
- Romance - Build a friendship, date, and marry one of 10 singles aboard the ship. Each one with a unique backstory and a wide range of personal likes and dislikes. If you can win their affection and upgrade to a large home then you can pop the question. Once married, you will have a lifelong companion to share your quarters with. But can you marry someone that is an android, an alien, or a genetic clone? Yes. Yes, you can.
- Rank up to full-fledged captain - You will begin as a captain-in-training and rise through the ranks as you grow your leadership skills. Mission Objective, Crew Morale, Ship Improvements, Resource Production, and Microbe Research are all factors in becoming a truly great Space Alliance captain. Captain ranks also come with credit bonuses, new machines, decorations, or customizable pieces each time you increase your rank.
- Microbe Research - Good, Bad, Neutral, and Wild microbes are loose on your ship! Using your Microbe Detector, you will want to collect them for research, use them for crafting, or sell them for credits. Can you catch and collect all of the microbes living in your ship’s microbiome?
- Museum - While on different planets, discover amazing artifacts and gems of exceptional beauty. Meet Hermy, the exploration Hermit crab with an abnormal passion for collecting things. Help him complete his museum’s Gem, Artifact, and Microbe collections for everyone to enjoy.
- Player Customization - Create your own look with interesting hair styles, color palettes, accessories, and hats. Perhaps you will even discover hot new trends in the universe.
- Full controller support - Plug in your favorite controller or get cozy with your Steam Deck.
- Original soundtrack - Composed by the very talented Dale North.
Made with love by Carbon & Kay
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players praise Little-Known Galaxy as a unique and charming space farming sim with engaging NPCs, satisfying activities, and well-paced progression that captures the magic of Stardew Valley. However, the game draws consistent criticism for its grindiness, slow movement speed, and repetitive exploration, which some players find causes them to lose momentum compared to similar titles in the genre. Despite these issues, many fans remain devoted to the game for its adorable aesthetic, addictive gameplay loop, and rewarding social elements.
Overall the game is fun but compared to counterparts like: Fields of Mistria, Stardew Valley, and Coral Island-- very. very. grindy. I find myself playing this game in short spurts every so often rather than being sucked into it and playing it for days on end like other games in this genre but that could just be me.2 found this helpful
Loved the premise of space ship and exploration. The crew, planets, crafting and music are all alright. Not a fan of the loooong wait on resource processing. So much that it makes me want to drop to neutral rating if I could. Prepare to be patient.1 found this helpful
I'd recommend this game with some SERIOUS qualifications. Even more so after the recent update; the inventory management/transfer system was bollocks from the beginning, but now it is even WORSE. Yes, I appreciate the new buttons that let you automatically transfer items between inventory/storage (FINALLY), but the devs simultaneously removed the one-click transfer option and changed it to a "click to split stack" thing, and there's no way I could see to revert to the old options in the settings. This boggles my mind considering there are a million cozy games that have already figured out the optimal way to manage inventory... WHY TRY TO REINVENT THE WHEEL?? This game has a TON of potential, and is often (but not often enough) incredibly fun to play if you enjoy cozy games and want a space theme. However, it has some SERIOUS BALANCE ISSUES that DESPERATELY need to be resolved. You will find yourself grinding super repetitive "dungeons" (e.g. the mines in Stardew) OVER AND OVER just to get a few measly ores that you will desperately horde to upgrade your equipment only to find that they offer only MINOR benefits. Even worse. the portals that take you to the next level spawn much mo…1 found this helpful
This game is one of the most unique and fun farming sims i have ever played!!! you can irradiate your crops, adopt xeno pets, and romance a clone, robot, alien, or any number of other characters!! the point here is, get this game!!!
Super cute and cozy, literally just Stardew Valley but in space
Do you like Stardew Valley? No? Move on. This won't be your cup of tea. However, if you're one of the quite substantial number of people that did like Stardew Valley. This might be worth checking out..I certainly liked it. It's basically a space inspired person of ConcernedApe's labour of love. It's not quite as polished and there's certainly room for improvement but overall, this is a solid game. Story fine, not much endgame but enjoyable enough. Characters are likable. Gameplay loop a bit repetitive as usual with these games but doesn't quite grind you to death. It would benefit from a fast travel system around your ship though. Can be a bit slow walking around so much and walking speed is a bit slow too. Overall It's not quite to infinity and beyond. But this cozy trip among the stars won't leave you looking for a quick return to Earth. --Steam deck compatibility-- *Perfect/Nearly perfect out the box - X *Perfect after some tweaks - *Runs fine without tweaks - *Runs fine after playing with settings- *Just about Playable, even after playing with settings- *Borderline unplayable; even on lowest and/or heavily modded settings - *This game cannot be played on Steam Deck -…
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