Ostranauts
Blue Bottle Games · 2020 · Flight, Simulation, Space Sim, Difficult, Sandbox
PC
Very Positive81% · 2,576
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About Ostranauts
✦ AI summary
Manage your ramshackle crew and ship while scraping by in a harsh solar system, making critical choices that ripple through your story and gameplay. Every decision—from your character background to how you customize your vessel's physics-defying systems—shapes your path from indebted scrapper to independent captain or complete failure.
In a solar system cut-off from a ravaged Earth, you play as a scavenger trying to make a living in the dredges of space. Wage-slave scrapper life isn’t enough anymore, and at last you’ve pulled together the funds (plus a hefty loan) to have a go at independence.
Based in the same universe as Blue Bottle Game’s last hit NEO Scavenger, learn to manage your dysfunctional crew and ship as you fend off bankruptcy...or worse.
Every choice you make will affect the outcome of the game. In character creation, you’ll use a Career Kiosk to shape your character’s background, income, and qualifications. Use it to customise your traits and skillset, which will be essential when managing your ship, its crew, and anyone sticking their noses in your business. You’ll start out the game with enemies, ex-lovers, and acquaintances to seek out… or avoid. Just remember your early decisions will affect your options and outcomes in conversations down the line.
Build your dream ship from the ground up, using detailed, functional parts. Scavenge “pre-loved” parts in the boneyard to upgrade your ship - finding old or rare parts in the system is much cheaper than tracking down the original manufacturer. Who has time to scour the solar system? Hook up subsystems, add extra power and fuel, and be sure to replace parts which have worn out during your adventures. Parts are essential to your experience and will change how your ship feels to fly.
“I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!” In Ostranauts you will be piloting a ship under the laws of Newtonian flight, learning to fly using in-world manuals and sheets. It will be your job to manipulate control panels, flip switches, and to resist the urge to press the big shiny red button… Every craft has a different flight feel based on thrusters, hull mass, and how you’ve customised the ship. Remember to use a light touch whilst docking, and try not find yourself in the outer rim with an empty fuel gauge.
Even in the darkest corners of space, you are not alone. Each character you encounter runs an AI that is constantly making choices based on their current needs and past experiences. They have physiological and emotional needs, ranging from basic wants like food, oxygen and water all the way up to deeper needs like intimacy and security. As captain, keep an eye out at the space port, scout out a crew and build those relationships. Your background will shape out how you are able to interact with other characters and if they will join your ship - have you developed a silver tongue or does fear rule your ship?
Based in the same universe as NEO Scavenger, Ostranauts will be rich with lore for those who wish to explore. After the collapse of civilization on Earth, colonies and factions formed - colonising other planets, moons and asteroids - with only those able to adapt to the harshness of space able to survive. As states and corporations spread their reach through the System, whispers of unexplained phenomena are creeping through back channels.
Blue Bottle Games encourages players to join the Discord, share modding ideas, and to help grow the world of Ostranauts. Modders who want to make their experience more unique are able to edit a wide variety of game data - most of the game's data is in plain-text files for easy access. If you have an inquiry, send us a message in either the Blue Bottle or Kitfox Discord.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Games like Ostranauts make me hate Early Access. I was really excited about this game when it came out. A hobo simulator from the creator of NEO Scavenger, only now in space? Being able to create, modify and dismantle ships in an open world sandbox where other space hobos went about their day, blazing your path through the galaxy, all in a systems-intensive, survival sim where taking care of your ship is as important as taking care of yourself?! Sign me the hell up! Okay, sure, it's in a bit of a rough shape right now, but it just came out on Early Access, I'm sure with time things will improve. And one year passed by. Two. Three. Six years Ostranauts has permanently been installed in my computer, always taking a peek after a major update, and always bouncing off hard due to very frustrating, elemental jank that would force enormous rollbacks to my save. Confusing UI; brain-dead AI getting into looping, nonsensical conversations; unintuitive objectives relying on poorly explained unique interactions. Over the span of months the developers would keep futzing around, fleshing out one ancillary feature while introducing 5 more bugs and while the rest of the core loop would remain a …8 found this helpful
One of my biggest discoveries this year. Same dev as Neo Scavenger, so expect an incredible atmosphere, god-tier writing, and an unforgiving yet incredibly satisfying gameplay loop. You start as a shipbreaker trying to escape an inhumane, dead-end job that barely pays enough to survive. You take out a massive loan and buy what is basically a flying coffin that's falling apart before your eyes, all so you can finally start making your own choices in the harsh, unforgiving reality of the OKLG. I still remember the first time I sold a big haul. After one crazy expedition that I somehow survived in one piece, I made more money than I had earned after years of grinding, sacrificing, and saving every dollar while working as another disposable megacorp employee. There's something incredibly compelling—almost relatable—about that feeling. It's a space sim where you go from absolutely nothing to... maybe not a millionaire, but someone who took control of their own life and built the future they wanted. All of this takes place in a dystopian world where humanity has colonized the Solar System while simultaneously losing contact with Earth (Kessler Syndrome). This is the good part—actuall…3 found this helpful
HOPEFULLY all of the bugs are fixed by full release, its a good game and worth the price tag if bugs aren't immediately noticeable in the first five minutes of gameplay1 found this helpful
zomboid without zombies and in space. the navigations of ships has no comparison to any other game. great.
1.0 coming next month and NPC AI update was just released. I should probably say "finally!" but what I'm thinking is "too late for me". this game is definitely special and worth checking out. I just can't forget it's out for like 6 years now and for all that time, my NPC's were biggest AI idiots I had displeasure to meet. I grew so tired of watching them (for like 3 weeks worth of time), I'm not able to play this game anymore. I had mild PTSD-like feeling after reading the changelog instead of being euphoric. curious. Obviously, AI quality is my biggest gripe. Additionally, I felt disappointed because of constant stuttering and save game implementation. "but, but, EA!" well, 5+ years is not really early access to me anymore. but, good news, all those cons most likely not an issue today. I also suspect stations to receive much love in the final release. so, yeah, lucky those who will try it out in August for the first time. Nevertheless, (and acknowledging I might sound like an entitled little b*ch) I recommend checking this game out. I like the idea very much, I just wish more experienced and bigger studio developed it.
I bought a ship, instead of leaving the station I decided to meet my mortgage quotas by doing gigs, then I socialized with this lady, we hit it off and she kissed me. I then got a text from my ex saying she needs my help with a "technical problem", I of course agreed because why not, I won't ever get to do it Later on I was repairing something on my ship, still hadn't left my station, and to complete the repair I had to get out into the little asteroid the station is on top of... I promptly found the corpses of my crush and my ex, suffocated in space I didn't bat an eye, and dragged my ex's dead, frozen corpse into the station NOBODY said anything as I dragged them to the scrap vendor and sold their entire belongings for profit. I then went back to get my crush's frozen corpse to do the exact same thing. I am now up 60k, my crush had a pda cartridge worth 25k I still haven't left the station once Instead of getting money by salvaging ships, I thought to myself, Surely I can salvage the station After countless deaths of my fellow citizens of ayotimiwa, I scrounged up around 300 thousand dollars With those, I grabbed a gig that needed me to deliver some vodka to some person INSTEAD …
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