Разработчик: Wx3 Labs, LLC
Описание
Check out the latest Starcom game!
Об игре
Итак, академия позади! Вам поручено командовать вашим первым кораблём. Конечно, это всего лишь лёгкий шаттл, но ведь надо же с чего-то начинать? И этим «чем-то» оказываются неизвестная галактика, враждебно настроенные инопланетяне и отсутствие пути домой.Исследуйте прекрасный и загадочный открытый мир Starcom: Nexus. Это целая вселенная, где вы будете воевать или дружить со странными инопланетными расами, находить древние артефакты, изучать передовые технологии и строить свой уникальный звездолёт.
Особенности:
- Игровая вселенная, представляющая собой полностью открытый мир со множеством квестов и сюжетных линий.
- Сотни уникальных планетарных аномалий, космических открытий, артефактов и многого другого!
- Быстрые, захватывающие бои с многочисленными враждебными группировками.
- Более 150 технологий, доступных для изучения.
- Способность построить свой собственный корабль при помощи модульной системы.
- Дипломатия и торговля с многочисленными расами инопланетян, каждая из которых имеет собственную мотивацию и динамический ИИ.
- Множество секретов и побочных квестов.
- Возможность быстрого сохранения в любой момент.
- Многое, многое другое!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows Vista/7/8/10
- Процессор: Intel Core i5 2.2 GHz+
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 2 GB Direct3D 11 Capable video card or better
- DirectX: версии 10
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Linux
- ОС: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or SteamOS
- Процессор: Intel Core i5 2.2 GHz+
- Оперативная память: 4 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: 2GB OpenGL 3 Capable video card or better
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Отзывы пользователей
Basic game, but good design and story line.
Exploring space, star fights, and some trading. Great game!
A top down space game:
If you are into space exploration, then definitely!
highly recommended that if you like these kind of games, to get both.
If you like Star Control 2 (the ORIGINAL), then you'll like this game. Really grabs you and sucks you in.
Brilliant indie space exploration. I really enjoyed myself. Strong Star Trek vibes.
Ah where to start. The amount of grinding to have a somewhat decent ship is obnoxious. Controls well had to load beta as the main game didn't work for keyboard and mouse. They went for an arcade feel with this and failed miserably. I cannot stress enough how slow this game is to develop your ship. Hate the style game with such a passion will not consider any games from this developer again.
If you like fast action avoid this. Avoid this now.
The music is so relaxing, I really feel like I am exploring space. the combat is engaging and the story is very good. thank you for transporting me to another world
Seeing as both entries in this series were on a discount, I decided to get them both, even though I was initially only interested Unknown Space. I decided to try out the supposedly less sophisticated first entry first, and I was gladly surprised to find a very interesting game.
At first glance, it seems like a very mechanically simple event-driven space exploration game. However, the developers managed to build a very enticing universe out of very simple pieces that result in a sum that is more than its parts.
The music is atmospheric and relaxing, with a mysterious vibe very fitting for an exploration game. The myriad little mechanics, from combat, to boosting, shields, asteroid mining, and more, provide an engaging game loop, which hides a surprising amount of little details that flesh out every nook and cranny. A very interesting lore that slowly unfolds a larger storyline keeps you interested. So far, I'm very glad I decided to check this one out, and I'm looking forward to what the developers of this game have in store in this entry of the series, and the next.
This is a fun little indie game. With top down space combat. A story line and problems to solve. A decient size map so far in 58 hours I exsplored about three quarters of the map. The grind is not bad at all. I have to rate this game an 8 out of 10. Hope this helps cheers.
Great game about wonders of space exploration, supported by good writing and intriguing mysteries. I appreciated the vague quests inciting discovery and requiring some processing of what you actually saw and experienced while traveling.
Pairs well with contemplative mood, chilled through it with great pleasure. Already bought the sequel, since this one is indeed that cool and I'm looking for more!
This is a slow-burn game that works well with a podcast. It is both repetitive and varied. Repetitive in the sense that you'll quickly settle into a groove doing more or less the same thing, but varied in the sense that there are many flavours to what you do. I enjoyed all the various planets you could explore, some of them quite involved, for example.
I played this so hard on my Asus Rog Ally that I blew out the right stick.
Fun. Definitely worth the cost. Not a lot of replayability.
Great game, tons of events, different civilizations, ways of traveling, ship bulder
Very long travels, some things are not obvious. In general it looks like some low quality copy of "Space Rangers" game. The only interesting mechanic - is building your ship with blocks
fun space exploration game, like the combat and shipbuilding. frustrating controls on steam deck although it runs great.
fun space adventure game
A shoot 'em up in space. It's not novel at all and the game is somewhat barebones, the gameplay loop is sufficiently satisfying, consisting of flying up to planets (at a much faster rate later on in the game) and 'scanning' them to see if interaction is possible. There more than 300 planets and there seems to be a lot of dialogue written for these.
Unfortunately, you do not have a lot of agency and the choices that you can make are often very minimal. If you choose to not interact, you will often lose the chance to do so at a later time.
Combat is very basic. Point and shoot with LMB to fire your plasma cannons. There are other weapons available later on in the game but for some reason, the developer decided that having them all share the same button (R to cycle, space to fire) would be a good idea (Hello! I have approximately 104 keys on my keyboard, allow me to use them!).
The game has a few bugs but nothing game breaking. Most of the time you'll be stuck because the developers love sending you on easter-egg hunts.
Mind that you can play the game in somewhat the order of your choosing which means you'll be visiting locations out of order and perhaps never unlocking certain technologies until they're not so useful anymore (or not ever unlocking them at all because you didn't happen to find the one planet that they're on. The game has a habit of making you fly around like it's your job in order to find stuff, sometimes giving you very vague hints that you will be excused for not noticing. (Not fun or challenging, just tedious, developers.)
What is somewhat novel is that you can leave notes on the world map and the game features surprisingly good in-game logging.
The ship design is very simplistic and pretty much pushes you down the same design path every time with the only real difference between how much of one weapon type you prefer to use. Since some parts can really only be effectively place in the back and some on the front (lest you use up all available building space very quickly) without being able to turn anything 90 degrees, I just ended up making one giant bulky ship.
Many features are poorly explained (if at all) such as 'armour' which leaves everyone guessing as to how it really works and for a game that prides itself on scientific mumbo-jumbo (some of it seems to be real, interesting) it doesn't give you much info to work with when it comes to your ship.
Communication with other species is extremely limited and pissing them off very easy (they tend to fly in the way all the time, some even stalk you constantly). There seems to have been a morale and a base defense system which was either severely limited or mostly canned.
All-in-all I enjoyed Starcom for the price I paid for it (€ 2-something) but it seems like it'd need more content and definitely a user-friendly ending to justify a higher price
This game is a steal at $5. I got hooked and bought the sequel. Addictive game play loop, exploration, and story. Get it on sale now, thumbs up!
I wanted to start playing the first game in the series, even though I heard the second installment is amazing. I wanted to appreciate the developers time when I purchased the bundle and I like the pace this game offers where you can be a slow and deadly build with your ships and technology and just mow down the competition. Save often as the game tosses in some hidden surprises if you're not armed or equipped enough. I can't wait to jump into StarCom Unknown Space when I finish this title.
I played Starcom: Unknown Space first and loved it. Usually playing a prequel can be rough, as some of the QOL things built into the sequel are missing. I do miss being able to automatically set travel paths. But I saw people posting that they liked the story better in the first one. Given that I really liked the story/writing in Unknown Space, I decided to give it a try.
It's fantastic. I agree that this story is a bit more gripping.
Both Nexus and Unknown Space are tremendous passion projects, well-executed, with great storylines, mechanics, and gameplay. You might have to look some things up - that's okay. Well worth your time and money.
Buy!
Not bad and very cheap.
Got it after completing Starcom: Unknown Space to support the dev.
Was pleasantly surprised to see pretty solid gameplay here as well. Combat turned out to be even more satisfying here somehow.
Top-town space exploration/action game.
Story and dialogue seems heavily inspired by books like First Colony by Ken Lozito or Black Fleet by Joshua Dalzelle (or they all take from the same source, some events are VERY similar).
Gameplay works well enough even if it has some rough edges. Easy to use ship designer, basic research tech tree but some really vague quest hints.
Give it a try if you like other top-town space shooters or books like the ones I mentioned, or jump directly to the sequel if want the improved version.
I enjoy the building of the ship and the deep exploration with the story line. If your old fart who likes and adventure mixed with Astroid the game then this will work :)
I really enjoyed it -- with one big reservation.
I'm stuck in the endgame. All the guides I have on where to go next don't take me to the right coordinates. I get that it's old school in some ways, but I spent the last two play sessions with google open trying to search and am not giving up on frustration. I'll play the sequel. Still fun and good and mostly chill, but needs a little polish and a teeny bit more direction for the player.
Pretty good simple and chill space exploration game, you just fly your ship here and there to uncover stuffs + progress the story. Not a lot of resource management either; you don't even need to worry about fuel. Some reading is definitely required though, which is crucial to progress through some quests. A little lengthy if you are like me, who love to explore everything in sight.
Only dislike few of the achievements that require you to find some planets without any clues. Also couldn't find the Black Comet :/ (Or is there actually one?)
If you enjoyed star control 2 and/ or starflight, this is going to be right up your alley. things are somewhat simplified compared to those titles, but that's not really a good or bad thing, just different.
it's got some modern quality of life features, such as a searchable ingame logbook, that make this title a bit more "easy" than those older games. still took me 28 hours for my blind first playthrough.
a bit more emphasis is placed on ship customization, the narrative, and exploration; and a bit less emphasis was put on characterizing the quirky aliens. there's a lot more "events" than the older games, which remind me a lot of the kind of things you get in something like galciv.
if you like space exploration with a bit of trading, a bunch of combat, from a top down perspective with somewhat newtonian physics, you're gonna love this.
A very absorbing game, with plenty of sci-fi stories and quests.
If you like sci-fi, puzzles, and ship building, you will enjoy this.
I really tried to like this game but after traveling across the map to stop a radiation leak on a planet. A ship collided with me now every person in the game is hunting me. Every time I warp into a new location I have at least 10 ships waiting to fight. Nice job making this game fun. The coordinates they give you are obscure. There is no way for me to complete quests because the information is wrong. It says unscanned planet all over then when I get to the planet it has already been scanned just a glitch?
As an 80s kid I loved the Starflight games. Starcom is the closest experience I've had to those games in about 30 years. I will say this game is fairly uncomplicated. I'd even say overall less complex than Starflight, while much deeper in some aspects like ship customization. That's good and bad. It allows you to focus more on the fun parts of the game like the ship-building, combat and exploration rather than min-maxing stats and trades in order to just survive. Also, this game is a pleasure to play. I can tell there is no sadist game designer behind the scenes trying to punish you. Only once did I have to reload far back to redo a part, and that was only because I accidentally started a battle with a faction I was trying to stay cool with. I purchased this to play through before I start the next Starcom that looks like they built on the success of this game and added more. Looking forward to that.
Genuinely enjoyable game, and for anyone who enjoyed old school classics like Star Control 2 and the like, you'll probably enjoy this. The ship building is fun without being overwhelming. The top-down space battles blend in seamlessly with the exploration and movement across the galaxy. Decent plot and lots of optional content for those who are completionists.
The game is very exiting first 10-12 hours, but after it turning to more boring part, when you need to make a lot of flights to found smth new and interesting, game ceases to amaze and this is the main problem.
This is the perfect game for people who enjoy science fiction like Star Trek. It has exploration, alien races, and space battles.
A fun game, very similar in concept to Starscape and Star Control 2.
You end up in an unfamiliar universe with just your ship (which you can gradually upgrade) and your space station (which performs the upgrades). Explore, trade and gather resources to upgrade your ship, discover weird alien species, unravel mysteries of the long extinct powerful alien empires.
If you're into all that - you're going to have a fun time.
An enjoyable game, where your choices make a difference.
Nice easy and really entertaining game. Took 26hrs to finish, planning to play in the next Starcom title 👍
A lot of space with not much to do. Boring
The game start out strong. But is bogged down by obtuse writing; which is a sign that the command of the language is not as strong as the writers would think.
The quest system is terrible, fetch quests disguised as "clever puzzles", the mistake is thinking that a total lack of access to information already presented is "challenging". You will find yourself recording everything down using the note taking system if you want to finish the quests.
Mid way through the game, I lost patience and gave up.
Hard No to this game.
Relaxing and good story, but it has it's fair share of "where the fuck do I do now" moments.
Do it...
For the first 80%, this game is a much more casual and stress-free version of Star Control 2: you fly around exploring star systems, fighting baddies, encountering aliens, designing your own ship, solving puzzles, getting filthy rich via trading, all that good stuff.
Then there's a 10% of checkbox ticking, in which you have to find 7 out of 8 MacGuffins to progress: some of those you'll find by accident, some you'll find by being thorough, some are only obtained at the end of multi-step treasure hunts: if one of the required pieces happens to spawn in a lone system outside the main travel routes, good luck finding it in a reasonable amount of time.
The final 10% is interesting in terms of story but clearly rushed in terms of gameplay: you're expected to do very specific things in a very specific order else the option to ask the obvious question to the obviously relevant NPC won't unlock and you won't be able to progress.
This continues up to the very end, where you can only save the day if you had unlocked a previously optional research path of a technology granted to you by an artifact you might or might not have found.
Basically, just follow a guide once you get the mission to find all the Sentinel keys and the game will be fun all the way through.
I played Unknown first, so it is interesting to go back to the first one and see how it evolved. It plays well. You can lulled into overconfidence early which is quickly dispelled soon after. I haven't finished this yet but I certainly will .
A very good space game!
More fun and thought put into it than a lot of AAA games at a fraction of the cost. Also mad props for donating to UA.
I wanted to love this game, but I definitely don't. It would have been pretty cool as 1990s shareware, but it just doesn't pass muster as a 2020s commercial title. The plot is EXTREMELY thin with no effort made to integrate "fetch this, blow that up, go there" quests into any kind of real storyline. Everything so far as I got into the story was completely linear: you go from system A to system B to system C with no reason to go backward and no real choices to make.
If there is more to this game later on, the devs really should have packed some of it into the first hour of gameplay.
Starcom: Nexus is an incredible space exploration game worth playing. I actually started with Starcom: Unknown Space (the next game) because I thought the ships in Nexus looked too "blocky" and I liked the aesthetic of the ships in Unknown Space better. Unknown Space is a fantastic game and both Nexus and Unknown Space are, to me, the legitimate successors to Starflight 1 and Starflight 2.
Unknown Space does have some very nice quality-of-life improvements on Nexus and it has a good story and great exploration. But Nexus is superior in story and exploration. The universe feels bigger in Nexus and there is some real mystery as to what is going on. After starting Nexus, I did miss some of those quality-of-life improvements but the ship design did not bother me so much. Regardless, the depth of story and exploration in Nexus hooked me.
If you like games like Starflight 1 and 2, then you must play Starcom: Nexus and Starcom: Unknown Space.
A great little space game, and a wonderful throwback to games I played in my youth, but modernized. The exploration is fantastic, a nice open map with plenty of things to do, and mysteries to uncover. The combat is nicely solid, and the ship customization is really fun. I've played through it a couple times and would highly recommend it, there's now a sequel that's even better.
Good
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Wx3 Labs, LLC |
| Платформы | Windows, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 19.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 92% положительных (1549) |