The full release on September 5, 2017!
| The archaeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. Can you escape from this planet? But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? Do you have a plan? Will you find what it takes to be a hero? Meet Star Story: The Horizon Escape – a turn-based adventure game with text-rpg elements. Tune into the story of the aspiring space-archaeologist Van Klik on his mission to the mysterious planet of Horizon! Non-linear plot development, 24 alternative endingsYour choices define the story. Totaly. Some will turn out better than others, some will worse and some will be straight up hilarious. You are to find the real true ending among your possible destinies and become a hero. Or maybe something more… Text-based gameplay diversityThe core classic. Dive into the stories and find a way to exploit EVERY possible situation. Did you know that if you throw a lockpick at an attack droid, it will decide that you are stupid and will deactivate? Build your character, choose your alignments, learn the lore of the world. You will need it all to succeed. Game mechanicsThe story will throw a mix of dialogues, choices, turn-based battles, puzzles, weapon and resource crafting, technology research and more at you. You will use all you can to survive the challenging world of Horizon. Turn-based philosophyThe player decides on the speed that he wants to play the game at. Everything is turn-based. There is no time-limit for making decisions, no quick-time events, no rush: you can take any amount of time to make your turn. Beautiful worldEnjoy the wild and crazy sceneries of the world of Horizon. Deserts, jungles, cities, underground caverns… the list goes on. Colourful charactersMeet the locals! Who is more to your liking? Side with “Bullet King” and uncover an ancient cryptic artifact. Or choose to undermine his brutal regime and make the local revolutionary your friend. Or screw them and go try to play romance with the alien girl? Or blow up the planet? Or… You get it! Need a break? The Horizon is waiting! P.S. Space shrimps are included… |
As you start the game, you’ll go through a quick background of the story and take on a few bots to enhance your fighting abilities. Then the story progress rather rapidly and you find yourself in the pod making decisions. Every decision you make from that point on will go towards three of your character’s threads, which are: resolve, insight and goodwill. These threads are crucial as they’ll give you access to new abilities further down the track. There are actually 24 different tracks and endings to discover.
The gameplay is pretty much a combination of a visual novel (without endless texts), turned-based fighting scenes (very short), and crafting and upgrading your inventory at your base. As the story progresses, you’ll be prompted to make some decisions and this is where you’ll accumulate points towards your character’s threads. You must accumulate a certain number of points to be able to upgrade your character threads. Bear in mind that your first walkthrough will be around one to two hours. At the time of writing this review, I am in my third walkthrough. The beauty is that you’ll never lose what you have accumulated in terms of threads from your previous gameplay. Thank God! The enemies are progressively harder to eliminate in each play through. Yes, some of the decisions will lead you to battles. Your hero and his enemies will each have a gauge. These gauges have three aspects in them; orange is health, green is armour, blue is the shield and each section will have a number allocated to it. For example, you might fight a sand shrimp which could have 10 points on the health section and 10 points on the shield. And of course, you must use the correct weapon to destroy the shield before sending the shrimp to an eternal barbie. After each encounter, you’ll collect resources which you can use to upgrade or craft additional items and weapons at your base.
Star Story: The Horizon Escape released in 2018 is a Adventure game published by Forever Entertainment S. Terratech - to the stars pack download. Developed by for the platforms PC (Microsoft Windows) Mac Nintendo Switch. Star Story: The Horizon Escape has a total rating by the online gaming community of 70%.
Star Story The Horizon Escape
In terms of enemies, I personally like the sand shrimp. You’ll fight against bandits, bots, pigmy and a few others!
- Meet Star Story: The Horizon Escape - a turn-based adventure game with text-rpg elements. Tune into the story of the aspiring space-archaeologist Van Klik on his mission to the mysterious planet of Horizon!
- Star Story: The Horizon Escape Preview. One of the defining characteristics of an adventure game is its narrative. As a type of entertainment composed of undemanding gameplay mechanics, the adventure genre relies on the strength of its characters and the development of its plot to keep players entranced.
- No doubt trying to get a piece of that Switch pie is Star Story: The Horizon Escape, an adventure game that offers an abundance of choices but that nonetheless struggles a bit to be interesting.
Star Story The Horizon Escape Switch Review
What happens when you finish your first play through? Well, you’ll keep your character’s thread points and restart the story when you’re in the escape pod. Then, depending on your choice, you might be on your way to finding the next ending.
This is truly an enjoyable game to play. The combination of reading, making choices, turn-based fighting and crafting is well-proportioned, and the fact that you have 24 endings to discover gives the game great re-playability.
Great 2D graphics and a good soundtrack, too. This game is very easy to get into!