About This Game STAR-BOX – RPG Adventures in Space!Strap on your gravity boots, power up your laser, and climb aboard your spaceship for a retro-styled, RPG-jaunt into the unknown! Travel around an open-world, sandbox universe where you are the architect of your own story. Fly around an infinite universe exploring alien worlds, abandoned cities, overrun space-stations, derelict ships, and parallel dimensions with little more than your trusty laser and inept, mechanical bodyguards. Collect and equip hundreds of items, weapons, and armours to help you on your journey. Get swept along in the politics of the year 4135 and lead a rebellion against a corrupt government and powerful corporations. Fight and capture 19 enemy vessels in tactical, bridge-based combat, and hire crew members to boost your fighting skills. Fall foul of strange spatial anomalies, giant space-fish, and human-hating AI programs through dynamic events that can strike at any time. Chose to work for Oberon Bounties and hunt down the scum and villains of the universe, for the Collector’s Guild, Earth Military, or for the mysterious Cicero recently awoken from a 2000 year cryo-nap. And if you fancy a challenge: play the game in ‘Ironman Mode’ where you only get a single chance at making it big.Features:A FULL SANDBOX EXPERIENCE:Explore space, untethered by a constricting story:Choose your gender, starting vessel, and the company that raised you.Undertake many exciting missions which include: boarding space-stations, killing their crew and stealing their tech.Hunting down ferocious beasts on alien worlds.Visiting alien shrines built on ancient asteroids.Steping foot on abandoned medical ships where the undead roam the corridors.Fighting in tactical bridge-based space battles where you can capture new ships or destroy your enemy and use their hull for scrap. And searching for illegal, low-tax settlements to avoid paying the 100% tax imposed by Earth Gov on all purchases.Find hundreds of items:Pick alien flowers for healing chemicals or useable genetic material.Salvage scrap metal to repair and upgrade your mechanical bodyguardsEquip armours, lasers, and grenades to make exploring space less dangerous.Find and use futuristic drugs to boost your skills and health.Chose to work for companies or go it alone:Explore random sectors of space where pirates roam and plunder is there for the taking.Work for Oberon Bounties and hunt down criminals on alien worlds, spacestaions, or in powerful ships.Join the Collectors Guild and bring back strange objects in return for special armours.Join Earth Military and gain discounts on tax, and access new specialist ships.Seek out and work for Cicero: the man with a mission to change the universe.A non-compulsory storylineAll humans are pledged into a company at the age of five and don’t see their family for the next 20 years. You have just graduated from a company of your choosing and your excellent grades have earned you a new shiny ship. Seek out your barely-remembered mother and get caught up in a political struggle that threatens to tear apart 2000 years of beautiful dystopia.Play ‘Ironman Mode’ for a true Roguelike experience.For those that love a challenge: choose to play the game with just a single life.Ironman forces you to think carefully about every decision.Escape pods become a vital part of the game.BRIDGE BASED SHIP COMBAT – ACTION RPG GROUND COMBATFight ship battles from the comfort of your bridge, issuing orders and using your specific skills to destroy or capture enemy vessels.Each ship has a unique missile, laser, and cannon strength, all effective at different ranges.Hire engineers, science officers, and tactical officers to give bonuses to your combat abilities.Disable enemy engines to allow you to get close enough to board them, boost your shields, and beam aboard your mechs to capture their ship once you’ve lowered the enemy shields.Fly 19 unique vessels.Choose to fly a ship with an escape pod and live on even after your ship is destroyed.Walk around on alien planets and creepy space-stations to find loot and accomplish missions.Each ship sports a different number of mech bays which you can use to maintain your mechanical bodyguards.Have up to five allied mechs helping you defeat your enemies.Fight against alien creatures, pirates, corporate militias, space wasps, and AI controlled mechs.Upgrade your mechs to do all the killing for you, or invest in armour, lasers, and various grenades to blow your enemies up in person.PLAY IN FULL HD WITH AN AMAZING SOUNDTRACKPlay the game in resolutions up to 1920x1080.Choose to play with an amazing soundtrack composed by Eric Matyas. (You can find much more of his amazing work @ http://soundimage.org/)Various graphical options for play on older machines. 1075eedd30 Title: STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures in SpaceGenre: Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, SimulationDeveloper:Michael FlynnPublisher:FlynnFour GamesRelease Date: 17 Aug, 2015 STAR-BOX: RPG Adventures In Space Download Lite Has potential, but the developer needs more experience. that or RPG maker is having issues i did not know about. while i admire the developers attempt, they should probably attempt to polish and streamline the game. Many things are unacounted for, and the games interfaces are extremely clunky. Good Start, but it really needs to be better. I would suggest holding off for a bit longer until the dev gets around to improving his games performance\/ interface and quality in general.. If you want to help this guy raise his new baby, and be there to hold his hand through his first attempt at making a game, then this game is for you. If you want a sandbox RPG that gets updated and runs well without a dozen bugs hitting you in the face every 5 minutes, look elsewhere. The game looks cool, seems like a good idea, but it is my opinion that this developer has little to no experience making games. The game isnt optimized, runs like crap on new systems, the options menu is an abysmal joke, and there are soooooo many bugs, its not worth $10. If this game goes on sale for $3, it would be worth it. But it seems that releasing new DLC is more improtant than polishing this jagged rusty hunk o junk. I wrote this bad review after seeing that he released DLC that has nothing to do with fixing the games jagged edges. (Note to the Dev) DLC is for AFTER the game is released, otherwise, it seems like you are just collecting money for a broken game. Pets should be free for having to put up with this hunk o crap. Youd be better off getting Junk Jack on iOS for $.99. The game needs a lot more work, it could be great but it appears to be abandoned. There are game breaking bugs and the missions with the factions seem to go nowhere. I hope the dev comes back and updates the game. So this game could be a lost gem in the retro gaming world but due to \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 programming it's not.The game is actually really fun, you travel around space, beat some aliens and other opponents, completing various missions, buy new spaceships ect. ect. it could be a very fun game if there was no darkside.The darkside of the game is that the programming is really bad and here is why:- The mouse programming ( which is absolutly not needed in this game) keeps the game crashing over and over again. Till you Figured out that keeping the mous on the middle of the screen solves the problem.- THe resolution options of the game dont work properly. If you change the resolution the screen gets of center so you cant see things like health or shield- Sometimes for no reason you cant board spacestations or planets. The game keeps you on your ship and you can try it over and over again with no chance to broad anything- Sometimes the game gets stuck in a loop of spaceshipfights. That actually happend only once and leaded me to glitch the hell out of the game. Because everytime you try to scan a space object a fight with an enemyspaceship breaksout. In my case the enemy was a puny little ship that didn't match mine in any aspect, so it took me no time to defeat it foor about 50 times, but you got always new loot from it. After that i got bored and made some missions and broke the stuck loop.So if there is any update wich would fix the problems above than it will be a gem in retro gaming but actually its not.. This concept behind the game is awesome. The execution is terrible - it's not fun to play. I was very dissappointed.. Refunding for now, might buy at a later date when more content is added, i will say though that the up-coming "Apocalypse Hotel" game made by the same dev does look interesting.. This game feels like a first attempt at making a game by someone who has no experience making a game before. It's slow, difficult to play, and It's riddled with bugs. The dialogue comes off as being juvenile in nature, so it's difficult to get into from that perspective as well. I wasn't able to play the game past the first hour or so; I found a bug that kept giving me reputation and once I hit 30k or so I somehow ended up walking around in space outside my ship with nowhere to go. At that point, I called it quits and requested a refund. A few examples of what I'm talking about:http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/wbpgZWx.pnghttp:\/\/i.imgur.com\/55tdVzf.pngThere are plenty of other games made with RPG Maker out there that are worth checking out, if that's your fancy, and I don't even know why anyone is calling this game a roguelike. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that people are excited about making games and such, but this really should have been a private and free release on the dev's website as a hobby and not something commercially sold through Steam. And for ten bucks? You're out of your mind.. So this game could be a lost gem in the retro gaming world but due to \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 programming it's not.The game is actually really fun, you travel around space, beat some aliens and other opponents, completing various missions, buy new spaceships ect. ect. it could be a very fun game if there was no darkside.The darkside of the game is that the programming is really bad and here is why:- The mouse programming ( which is absolutly not needed in this game) keeps the game crashing over and over again. Till you Figured out that keeping the mous on the middle of the screen solves the problem.- THe resolution options of the game dont work properly. If you change the resolution the screen gets of center so you cant see things like health or shield- Sometimes for no reason you cant board spacestations or planets. The game keeps you on your ship and you can try it over and over again with no chance to broad anything- Sometimes the game gets stuck in a loop of spaceshipfights. That actually happend only once and leaded me to glitch the hell out of the game. Because everytime you try to scan a space object a fight with an enemyspaceship breaksout. In my case the enemy was a puny little ship that didn't match mine in any aspect, so it took me no time to defeat it foor about 50 times, but you got always new loot from it. After that i got bored and made some missions and broke the stuck loop.So if there is any update wich would fix the problems above than it will be a gem in retro gaming but actually its not.. In the tutorial you are posed with the opportunity to capture a ship. The opposing mechs and captain are significantly stronger than you and you will die quickly. What a tutorial.I will probably play this game more but damn dude have a heart, you almost broke my interest in continuing to play.. Having recently given up on Fortune's Tavern as a hopeless game i tried this one. I wondered long if this one works better and if i should buy it... though i see they both share the same kind of combat engine. Surely this one will work better right? No. It's terrible. And i have come to the conclusion that this game engine just isn't cut for fun action oriented gameplay. Sure you can get this to work somewhat but the fun part is just missing. Combat on ships is something that i can imagine some people love despite(or because) the sluggish way the characters move giving you a stuttering Archon -like linearity to combat. Fortune's Tavern dejavuu is very strong here. The biggest sin i think this game engine brings to the table is that it overshadows the story. You are spendng so much time on being annoyed by it that you just dont even care about the story. Yes i understand, some people like it. But i just can't as there really are WORKING action games such as Secret of Magia that does the action part right. Not going to be spending much ink on the game mechanics itself - i see others have already taken care of that. Instead i am going to just issue a general warning for action games that has this game engine underneath. Now by this i dont mean rpgmaker games generally as i have recently learn't to like a lot of more traditional rpgmaker games but this particular engine that is used on the more action oriented games is just a general disaster and i will avoid it like the plague in the future.
- perkeraresroni