The Station
The Station Game ltd · 2018 · Indie, Adventure, Story Rich, Sci-fi, Atmospheric
PC
Very Positive86% · 981
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About The Station
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Explore a mysterious space station orbiting a war-torn alien civilization and uncover what happened to its three-person crew through environmental puzzles and augmented reality logs that reveal a story about surveillance, imperialism, and moral compromise. The Station challenges you to piece together a narrative told through intimate environmental details rather than exposition, forcing you to confront uncomfortable questions about humanity's role in alien affairs.
The Station is a first-person sci-fi mystery set on a space station sent to study a sentient alien civilization. Assuming the role of a recon specialist, players must unravel a mystery which will decide the fate of two civilizations.
How would you react if we discovered a sentient alien civilization, challenging everything we know about biology, chemistry, physics, religion and answering the questions man has asked throughout history? But what if this sentient alien civilization was discovered in a state of civil war? Determining that the rewards outweigh the risks, an undetectable space station with a small three-person crew deploys to research the alien culture in search of a means towards a peaceful relationship. Unable to contact the crew, a recon specialist is sent to uncover what happened. What players discover will challenge their view of surveillance, imperialism and moral law.
Welcome aboard The Station.
A World of Augmented Reality - The future holds a progressive attitude towards how information is stored and shared. Technology has gone through a digital revolution and conversations, notes and even computers are experienced in full Augmented Reality. Ranging from personal to professional, these AR logs will let players explore what was taking place on-board.
Intuitive Problem Solving - When a door won’t open, what will you stop at to discover what lies behind it? The secrets on-board the station will resist being uncovered and you must rely on your ability to identify and solve intuitive but subtle problems - The Station itself is a puzzle to be solved.
Piece Together a Living Story - We believe the best stories are shown not told. Each room and space will have a unique moment to share if you look close enough – as the story unravels each detail will begin to fall into place. For the keen eye, a rich story awaits.
How would you react if we discovered a sentient alien civilization, challenging everything we know about biology, chemistry, physics, religion and answering the questions man has asked throughout history? But what if this sentient alien civilization was discovered in a state of civil war? Determining that the rewards outweigh the risks, an undetectable space station with a small three-person crew deploys to research the alien culture in search of a means towards a peaceful relationship. Unable to contact the crew, a recon specialist is sent to uncover what happened. What players discover will challenge their view of surveillance, imperialism and moral law.
Welcome aboard The Station.
Gameplay
A World of Augmented Reality - The future holds a progressive attitude towards how information is stored and shared. Technology has gone through a digital revolution and conversations, notes and even computers are experienced in full Augmented Reality. Ranging from personal to professional, these AR logs will let players explore what was taking place on-board.
Intuitive Problem Solving - When a door won’t open, what will you stop at to discover what lies behind it? The secrets on-board the station will resist being uncovered and you must rely on your ability to identify and solve intuitive but subtle problems - The Station itself is a puzzle to be solved.
Piece Together a Living Story - We believe the best stories are shown not told. Each room and space will have a unique moment to share if you look close enough – as the story unravels each detail will begin to fall into place. For the keen eye, a rich story awaits.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
HonestR Every room of the ship is maticolously design PROS -Unli stamina -Can Save anytime -No cancer achievements (Speedruns etc) -Relaxing game -Voice is soothing to hear -Free roam after finishing the game -Story is amazing CONS -Short game "Forget the humans. Forget the earth. You can't let them find us."1 found this helpful
A great 2 hour narrative about exploring an abandoned space station somewhere. Beautiful visuals, interesting story. Worth a play, it's awesome.
Outrageously short walking sim. Heck, if you don't stop around to read everything and investigate every corner you will finish it within the refund window. Hah! 1.50 was a fair price and I can actually recomend it for that much. If you like Sci-Fi and some mystery experience/investigation then go ahead. It's more of a virtual experience than game. Puzzles were incredibly simple and easy but somewhat satisfactory and didn't break the pace. Story is servicable but nothing special. You'll figure out the "twist" really fast, with more and more obvious clues as you keep on exploring. It would have worked 10, 15 years ago but at this point I am just tired of self-hating oikophobes taking over the entertainment industry. Rather than self-reflect or feel cathartic, I was like "eh, it's this same thing all over again." Sorry writers, you're not profound; you're just preachy and pretentious. The "show, don't tell" approach that was promised kinda delivered in a way. The locations and rooms managed to tell a story. There are audiologs and text notes but, compared to other games, they are sparse. The attempt was appreciated but it felt like that the devs just decided not to overload the pl…
I, personally, was not inspired and saw the ending coming pretty early on. But it was fun enough and getting 100% completion was a delightful challenge.
Honestly, for 1.50 Euro and for less than 2 hours of gameplay (I like experiencing short games from time to time), a pretty decent little thing. The voice acting and the visuals were pretty good, I liked interacting with stupid stuff for no reason, the puzzles were neither boringly easy, nor annoyingly hard. Top notch atmosphere, I was always entering new rooms verys slowly, lest I get spooked by something evil. There was a jumpscare that caught me off guard (I didn't mind, it was about time) and the ending is pretty funny (?), and might warrant a replay, so I can keep some of the context around it in mind while exploring.
Had this game in my library for years and I'm glad I finally got round to playing it. Loved the environment design (especially Silas's room) and appreciate the Free Explore Mode. Also didn't expect the twist at the end.
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