Space Pirates And Zombies 2
Design and then improve the ultimate mothership. Explore a persistent living galaxy populated by 200 unique captains that can do everything you can do. Survive the zombie infection and then fight them back. Make allies and start your own faction. Build your empire. Also includes Sandbox Mode.
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Become the Captain of an interstellar cruiser and journey across the galaxy to save the Republic. During your journey you will have to make important decisions, improve the weaponry of your ship and fight against numerous enemies.
Between the Stars is a space, rpg and action game
developed and published by Isolated Games.
Released on March 07th 2024 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 5 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, French and Russian.
It has received 1,970 reviews of which 1,478 were positive and 492 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.00€ on K4G.
The Steam community has classified Between the Stars into these genres:
Space
RPG
Action
Simulation
Indie
Strategy
Adventure
Space Sim
Singleplayer
Sci-fi
Sandbox
Open World
Roguelite
3D
Tactical RPG
Early Access
Survival
Exploration
Flight
Action RPG
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Between the Stars:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| French | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Russian |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
- Processor: Intel Core i3-4330 @ 3.50GHz / AMD FX-4330
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 Ti / Radeon R9 270X
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 5 GB available space
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A heavily flawed game, that I still enjoy. I get why it has mixed reviews, it may deserve a negative overall. But this game has soul. I recommend it at 15 bucks or less. Short pro/con lists Pros: - Fun if easy combat - Quality writing - Good ship designs - Generally good art Cons: - Poor fight design, specifically in regard to story missions - Poor weapon balance - Technical issues regarding story choices and dialogue - Poor but workable camera - No sense of scale The gameplay is simple, pretty easy if/when you realize what works and run with it. Even if you just go for what looks cool, don't expect a hard game. Weapons are poorly balanced, while they can all work, and even be good, the disparity between the main cannon lines and every other weapon type is staggering. While workable I gave up on running a missile boat because it didn't feel as good. There are many times in the story where they put you in an unwinnable, or unwinnable until the dialogue play out fight where an invincible enemy monologues at you while eating nuclear missiles for breakfast. Don't turn a cutscene into an unwinnable slog of bad gameplay and exposition, The story was well written, at times it fell into tropes and has one or two intentionally annoying characters whose humor did not make up for their failings, but on the whole, the writing is quite good. The game can forget prior actions and story choices. A man whose life I saved, who stood by my side as we betrayed his nation, and who killed his father in front of me , randomly shows up as an enemy later, as if I had taken one of the other story routes, with no dialogue referencing it, as though we had always been enemies. Crew members would be referred to by He or She inconsistently. I suspect there was a function to call character data and then use he or she respectively, but then some dialogue went through with just a written he or she. I got a girl pregnant. I was playing a female character. The last big flaw is in the sense of scale. Every ship in this game is a capital ship, cruiser or battleship. When all of the ships are operating on roughly the same playing field of size, maneuverability, and firepower they stop feeling like giant monstrous vessels. You could replace every instance of the word cruiser or battleship with corvette, and I don't thing anybody would notice The game needed a wider variety of ship types in the action to set the scale. If I'm flying a big ship, I want to feel like I'm flying a big ship.
A game that allows you full flight movement, as you dish out punishment to the evil people that had a heatstroke. "Between the Stars" is a game where combat and flight feels like the arcade version, but it's main focus is actually the story in the campaign. The tutorial brings you into a short story of how the Solar Empire attacks the Interstellar Republic, which results in a loss to the Republic. The actual story begins with you creating a character (kind of goofy character design) who is a captain in the Republic and soon after you end up in the whole mess trying to shift the balance and fight back the Solar Empire. The story has some voice over mainly in space battles, but it's heavily texted without voice during non battle situations. The story takes place on stations, planets and various places where you make a ton of choices and some of these choices are based on dice throws. The game use dice throws for crew fights and some story branches where failing the dice can actually change the course of the story. You have various captain and crew attributes for this, but they don't benefit the actual dice. Instead you have more dice being tossed during the check, when you have higher attributes. Your captain can attain various attributes from choices. They come in positive, negative and "neutral" versions. The neutral type has a good bonus, but also with a downside. You have a select amount of crew mates active in your ship and they benefit anything from weaponry, defences, crafting and more. You have plenty of options to buy better ships as you move on. Some ships are more bulky with plenty of hardpoints for weaponry, while others have less hardpoints, but are more agile and fast. There are various utility hardpoints like radars for increased accuracy, mine layers and "flak cannons" to shoot down incoming missiles. Your main weaponry comes in 2 versions. Guns or missiles. Missiles are fairly easy to use, but can be shot down by enemy anti air defences. Guns require you to manually aim ahead of enemies, but are way more powerful especially in the later stages. Your ship has "power management" that allows you to react differently on the battlefield. This allows you to forward more power to guns, shields or speed. You can also change to have less on speed and then even out the rest on shields and weapons. The game appears to offer multiple playthroughs based on your choices, as some of these choices have an impact from start until the end of the game. There are some slight issues here and then with the game. I had some various stuttering when moving towards Solar Empire territory, especially when warping. Not much appeared to help when messing with the changes. Some achievements appear to not function. I had an achievement for unlocking 10 ships, but the 5 ships achievement did not unlock. Crew members can enter a state of gravely wounded depending on choices, but for some reason their state can bounce on to another crew mate, including some who you have in reserve. Some reviews indicate that docking is an annoying thing, but it's not really an issue. You can control the speed on your ship and all you need is line up next to the docking bay. A green triangle will appear in the area when you are close enough and when it's bright green, you set your ship to full stop and it autodocks. Overall a decent experience.
Yes... I would recommend this game, but with a Massive Warning Disclaimer. Normally I do Game Reviews because a Game is Super GREAT... or Super Bad. This game is somewhere in the middle of Non-Super. But it's a good game... enjoyable... some differences from other games, and can/should provide many hours of Fun. However... it will also provide Massive Frustration. The biggest of which are the Supposed Choices the player gets to make... when in fact, they are decisions to do what the devs want you to do... or be Punished for not making the decision the Dev felt you should have made. I like games where you can go Left or Right, and depending on your choice you get 1 Good Reward or another based on your choice. But here, anyone who goes Right gets the Good Reward... Go Left and get (not just a Bad Reward, but....) Punished. (i.e., I allowed to crew members to maintain their relationship... I Lost a Leadership point (these points do not come easily); and I didn't even get a bump in Crew Moral or something; just Punished!!! I never post spoilers, but this is 'Spoiler' I'm posting, because you are going to want it. When you meet with the council you need to push attacking now and not wasting time. Why? Because if you don't when you attack the Phoenix it will be invincible and the game comes to an end; or you just keep playing (leave the battle), and never complete the main story... unless you reload a save prior to the council meeting and make the choice the Devs wanted you to make. And we are not talking Alternate Endings... we are talking, the ship is indestructible and as such, destroys You, your fleet and the fleet that accompanies you; No Survivors... which means; Game Over (Literally). The other thing is a Dice System to make determinations; which is a Great Idea... if they made the system fair. You have skills you can increase, such as Leadership, Charisma, etc.. These skills come in handy with certain text based story portions of the game. So.,. your CHA is 7, and to succeed you must throw an 8 on the die. So, you throw a 5. You think you won, right? Your 7 Plus the Die's 5 equals 12. But the way the Devs designed it, they don't care how many points you placed in your Charisma... in order to win the dice have to be 8 or More... Your skill doesn't actually count (kind of like the Electoral College). So what is the point of even spending points? On the brightside... in the Options menu you can turn that non-sense off; I'm pretty sure it's still happening in the background, but, at least, you can feel as though you lost because your CHA wasn't high enough, since they also don't tell you what you need to beat a check. Bottomline is: This really is a Good Game; but the Devs made some really poor choices. While I'm a firm believer that One man's Trash is another man's Treasure... there is a reason why people aren't playing this game in droves... because without these few bad decisions... this would really be a Great Game. Catch it on-sale, you'll be less disappointed. Add-On: So, I just got the mini-quest text thing again with 2 Crew Members in a relationship. This time I reprimanded them for the violation and I Received a point under leadership. So once again... you do not get to develop your own character... or at least not a good one, because if you keep doing what the Devs don't like, you'll end up with a Weak Captain with no skills. If you want to Take/Give a Leadership Point for my decision, then, at the very least Take/Give a Reward, like a Point to/from Charisma, because your better liked by your crew. Don't just Punish because it's not what You would have done. (Soooo Frickin' Annoying). Note: I like to Roleplay, and this takes all Roleplay out of the game. Another Add-On: I'm now using this review to Vent. I'm starting to see why people have stopped playing this game. Just got another one of these Mini-Game Text Things. You choose whether to keep something to yourself (hold the burden alone) or share it with your crew. If you are Steadfast, and hold the burden you Lose a Trait (Fullness: Captain (You) gain more experience). But if put the burden onto your crew you lose nothing... and you gain nothing. So a Strong Captain that protects their crew from burdens they don't need to carry is punished; but a Weak Captain who needs their crew to Hold their Hand, well, no punishments, but no rewards either. I'm not sure how much more of this game I can take. Add-On: And the Fun Must doesn't Stop. You have different departments, and they level over time from use. Well, I got my Research Department up to level 3 (which means I could research better equipment). Now... all of a sudden my research department is back down to level 1. But here's the fun part... I can no longer research level 2 and 3 items, and most of the level 1 items have already been researched; so now I have to HOPE I have enough research left over to get to level 2. Surprisingly I'm still enjoying the game, but I really wished the Devs had not given up. ;( EDIT: Nope: That was on me... I swapped out a Scientist and that determines the level of your Research Lab. Great Feature, By the Way :)
Well, what can I say — I finished this game. This game is not a masterpiece. It doesn’t shine with a huge number of mechanics or incredible graphics. It definitely doesn’t have the most beautiful space visuals, the best music, or the most original story, BUT despite all that, it’s still a good game. In my opinion, the game was made with love and genuine effort. A lot of mistakes were made, there are plenty of bugs, some of them even serious, and I definitely won’t recommend this game to my friends. However, I personally had a lot of fun while playing through it. Probably because I love those space TV series from the ’90s and early 2000s, like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andromeda, and others like them. This game has the spirit of those shows, at least in my opinion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Between the Stars is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.
No, Between the Stars is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Between the Stars received 1,478 positive votes out of a total of 1,970 achieving a rating of 7.25.
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Between the Stars was developed and published by Isolated Games.
Yes, Between the Stars is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Between the Stars is not playable on MacOS.
No, Between the Stars is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Between the Stars is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Between the Stars is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Between the Stars does not support VR.
Between the Stars is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Between the Stars. Explore additional content available for Between the Stars on Steam.
No, Between the Stars does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Between the Stars does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Between the Stars is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Between the Stars.
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