Разработчик: Kerberos Productions
Описание
The Pit! On Tabletops!
We have taken The Pit and made it into a board game! And then we made it into a video game version of the board game! We made a video game board game video game!
If you'd like to try your hand at The Pit in a tabletop fashion, and you own Tabletop Simulator, head on over to the Tabletop Simulator Workshop and subscribe to our TTS mod for The Pit: The Board Game!
Better yet, if you'd like to try it at home, there are four days left to pick up the actual, physical game on Kickstarter! Don't miss out!
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About the Game
A deadly plague ravages your world. Your last hope: a legendary alien facility dug deep into the Feldspar Mountains...a massive Pit, built by the ancient Suul'ka.If 'The Pit' really exists, there might be something left. Something that will give your doctors a fighting chance at the cure.
All you know for sure is that every expedition into those mountains has failed to return...
And Nothing Sows Death Like the Suul'ka.
Quamdiu Poteris Superesse?
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a fun, fast, light-hearted turn-based RPG, where the tradition of Rogue and other old school dungeon-diving games meets the sci-fi Sword of the Stars universe, where the question to ask isn't "Did you make it to the end?" so much as "How far did you make it into The Pit before the monsters got you?"
Be brave, press on for the sake of your planet, and when all else fails, go out in a blaze of glory!
Key Features
- 3 Characters to choose from... Marine, Pilot and Engineer!
- 5 Bonus characters from the MindGames expansion, now included in the base game.
- A secret hidden character! Google it!
- 30 Levels of ancient evil science between you and the cure!
- Improve your character and increase your skills as you try and find a way to survive the depths.
- Dozens and dozens of enemies drawn from the Sword of the Stars universe!
- Over 50 weapons and armors with a variety of special effects including flamethrowers, rocket launchers, plasma cannons and powered Brawler armor!
- Randomized augmentation effects (for your equipment... and for you!) make each game unique.
- Crafting lets you make special items from bits and pieces of your enemies.
- Over 100 items to discover, ranging from the familiar to ancient exotic tech.
- Dozens of room types containing a host of exotic devices to help - or maybe hinder - your progress.
- Discover and decipher hidden messages, crafting recipes, and pieces of Sword of the Stars lore!
- Many fiendish ways to die including poisoning, disease, traps, radiation, starvation and of course... MONSTERS.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *:Windows XP
- Processor:Intel Pentium 1.6 GHz or equivalent
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB DX compatible card
- DirectX®:9.0c
- Hard Drive:1.4 GB HD space
- Sound:Any Windows compatible sound device
- Additional:Controller support: 2-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
- OS *:Windows Vista / 7
- Processor:Intel Pentium 2 GHz or equivalent
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:1 GB DX compatible card
- Hard Drive:1.4 GB HD space
- Sound:Any Windows compatible sound device
- Other Requirements:Broadband Internet connection
- Additional:Controller support: 2-button mouse, keyboard and speakers
Mac
- OS:10.8 Mountain Lion
- Processor:2.0 GHz Intel
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card
- Hard Drive:1.4 GB HD space
- Sound:Any Mac compatible sound device, stereo speakers or head phones
Linux
- OS:Ubuntu 12, Fedora 20, etc
- Processor:2.0 GHz Intel
- Memory:2 GB RAM
- Graphics:512 MB NVidia or ATI graphics card
- Hard Drive:1.4 GB HD space
- Sound:Any Linux compatible sound device, stereo speakers or head phones
Отзывы пользователей
Seriously awesome roguelike.
I don't have the energy to make an exhaustive review, so you'll have to deal with my very condensed, tl;dr-ish review.
This has all the hallmarks of a great roguelike/roguelite, the mechanics of a fun game with progression and somewhat compelling mechanics. But it is FAR too geared towards a "forevergame" design. The game is designed as if this is the only game you will ever play for the rest of eternity. Everything takes for-ever.
It's also highly reliant on trial and error, throws a million and a half ingredients at you that, at the time of starting to play this, you have literally no idea what to do with, much less which machine you use them in.
Add to this that the ingredients are completely consumed whether you make a correct recipe or not, which means you have try, try, try, try and try again with different varieties of ingredients. This is very analogous to Rogue, the original game, but the difference is that Rogue had an extremely low variety. You COULD feasibly figure things out each run. The Pit is completely impossible with the bajillion recipes.
On top of this, there are SO MANY enemies. While most of them are individually not very dangerous, the sheer number of them just means you get destroyed by sheer attrition. Either you run out of ammo or your armor and weapons break (why is durability STILL a thing in games? It was never a good, fun or compelling mechanic. STOP DOING IT!)
It also absolutely loves throwing a whole room full of enemies at youevery time you step down a ladder to the next level, which means you take a whole lot of unavoidable damage. It lacks a decent cover system, which means you'll be relying a lot on armor (which breaks).
With a few DLCs, there's so many new items added, yet your inventory stayed the same size, so you'll be carrying around half a planet's worth of items that you have no idea what to do with.
All in all, this is a frustrating, grindy, annoying experience that can only be enjoyed by someone who will devote hundreds of hundreds of hours to playing one run after the other and doesn't mind that their first 500 runs will be pure confusion, frustration and death.
If you're one of those guys, go for it! Everything else about the game is actually really good. But the inventory and grind is what kills the enjoyment for me. Just get Jupiter Hell, it's a MUCH, MUCH better roguelike.
I have been playing this game on and off for a decade. My playtime is probably over 3000 hours due to playing a lot on different platforms and i have beaten it on hard with every class so i cant recommend it enough.
The game has a reputation of being extremely hard and unfair to new players although most true roguelikes have entry barrier of just learning mechanics and getting better.
Everything in pit is tied to skill checks so luck is a factor but that can be mitigated with experience.
Relative scarcity of resources is what separates this from many other roguelikes. Your equipment breaks,you may run out of food or ammo,
There is ridiculous amount of crafting components to find and limited inventory space.
Every enemy has its own shtick doing different kinds of damage or status effects so knowing them makes all the difference.
Visuals and UI,graphics quality are on extremely high level for a traditional roguelike.
Only real con i would say is length of the pit,40 levels is too much and it overstays its welcome in later stages of the game.It should have been 25 and it would still take a lot of time to reach although there are mechanics to skip levels (wormhole traps).
There is a sequel on steam but it seems it is not being developed anymore so stay out of that and play this instead.
"Just like Jupiter Hell but more RPG like." A very nice, cute and intensive turn-based sci-fi RPG. Definitely a good buy if you like turn-based adventures and strategy. Extensive character tree and skills plus ability to control team-mates.
So, I picked Quasimorph a few days ago and thought of this game again for the first time in... several years. At least five, maybe more. I remembered being turned off, and subsequently being averse to games with a similar style of gameplay until now. Of course, this can only mean one thing. Checking back in and seeing why.
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a... very confused game. It keeps the controls very simple and accessible, but bombards you with knowledge check after knowledge check on top of heavy RNG. For example, it keeps crafting recipes behind computer logs that you have to get with an RNG check, which you then have to decipher with another RNG check, so unless you've been pumping stats into both deciphering and computers, you won't be getting any new recipes. And even then, there's a very good chance that you'll only be partially successful and only reveal some words. The computer could also be broken, which means, of course, you need to pass yet another RNG check to repair it. That's three different RNG checks and each of them uses a different skill. But hey, at least you move with WASD, use spacebar to interact, and left click to attack!
The game is just completely full of this stuff. It's insane! You need to know to take off your armor and use your weapons extremely sparingly for the first few floors to not waste their durability, know what enemies are worth using weapons on, know when using an item won't be a waste, know what items to keep on hand for crafting, and still be completely screwed by RNG whether it's because you simply never got what you needed or the stupid crafting stations decided to never spawn. And god help you if you're playing as a class that's not good at interacting with the scenery because the issues will be exponentially worse.
What's more is that you can have a solid run going with lots of ammo, good armor, food for days, decent enough weapons, enough healing to open up a hospital, and then run into an Entropic Wurm. An enemy which is the same speed as you (except for two or three specific classes, whoop-de-doo), can grab you to stop you from moving, has armor piercing melee, and will give you level 9 poisoning if it hits you... so you better have something that either increases your movement speed, cures poisoning, or kills it faster than it can get to you because otherwise your run is just over. Level 9 poisoning keeps dropping your stats until you die, health bar be damned. Same thing happens with disease, but that can actually get worse over time instead of going away unless you have you something cures it, which is another way to die unless you have something to cure it with the bonus of also being RNG dependant.
It's so close to being fun, to being something that could have been so good instead of merely being a strange little oddity that doesn't quite have a grasp on why other games in the genre are fun. I could go into further detail about the mechanics and such, but I doubt you need to hear me talk about how obsessed with RNG Sword of the Stars is any more than I already have to understand why I can't recommend this game to anyone. Oh, and you can't move diagonally. What in the actual fu-
Cool little traditional yet accessible sci-fi roguelike
Достойный рогалик
Really good traditional roguelike
Demands me to do some tweaking to run it on Linux.... and I franky don't want to bother to go through the guts of winetricks, proton and what not.... f* that. Will leave a bad review until a proper Linux version is (which will never be) released.
The game is too much RNG dependent to the point is unwinnable. Too many mechanics that are mostly depend on luck.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Kerberos Productions |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 01.02.2025 |
| Metacritic | 69 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 84% положительных (860) |