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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 only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, French and Russian.
It has received 2,301 reviews of which 1,724 were positive and 577 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 0.48€ on Gamivo.
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- 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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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.
Overall I enjoyed my time with the game. I think you will to. Worth addressing the ups and downs, though: The writing was interesting, a couple very unbelievable characters took me out of it at times, but it was a narrative-heavy game and it kept me engaged through the end. In the story interactions I wish it were more clear if Text Choice were your character telling the other person "Text Choice" or your character literally doing the action [Text Choice] - it changes without clarity - since I did a few things out of my own character with that ambiguity. Nothing breaks the progression though. The side encounters are largely good, but the unique ones should not repeat. The first time I found a ship that turned to cannibalism to avoid starvation was interesting. The 15th time with the exact same situation just made me want to click through it. Also the random enemy encounters happen often enough and only have two or three voice lines - don't need to play them every time, y'know? The combat is very fun to actually do, but it's not varied. There are a lot of weapon types, most of them really underperform. There are abilities, but they take your point defense slots, and you don't want to lose that. It funnels every player to a specific build unless you avoid it (and suffer) for RP reasons, which is a shame with so many possibilities. There is an auto aim for accessibility, but it only works with beams and missiles, two of the not good weapon types, so that's a bit of a trap for players. But it IS fun despite all this, and even though it was repetitive I never got bored of it, they got the basics down just right. I love the universe map, there are many approaches space games take to that, this is very well done. It's a good size world, too, plenty of variety but not arbitrarily large where different locations become meaningless. It also has a very distinct aesthetic for its skyboxes. Performance is acceptable, there's some stuttering at times especially when jumping, and there seems to be a max projectiles set which will be exceeded in regular battles. Far from perfect, but nothing really frustrating.
I loved the game, however I have to warn anyone in advance that this isn't really a "Space sim" or "freelancer-like" as it may look at a glance. This game is a very specific genre that I happen to love immensely, something like a visual novel with some space combat and ship management in-between. That said, the writing is pretty good, throughout the story I felt immersed in a way you do when reading a good book. What really surprised me, was the fact that your choices actually matter, sometimes a lot. While playing I thought that the game is linear and choices nudge minor details here and there, but after finishing the game I read up on the story branches and boy was I wrong. I love how the crew of your ship actively participates in various events that happen all the time, making you care about the crew members and giving them character, not just background noise. Also, the music is pretty good, the soundtrack isn't big though, so after a while some sequences will get a little repetitive, but it's good. My 24 hours of gameplay is my singular playthrough, and considering there isn't that much in the way of side content it's definitely not stretched in any way. A suggestion if you want to give it a try: Many guides will advise turning off the dice mechanics. Don't. Keep the dice rolls and combat. Don't savescum, roll with your successes and failures, the adventure will feel much more alive that way. Overall, I loved the game and really hope a second one comes someday. If the devs could make a game with better space combat while keeping the writing quality intact, it would be a hell of a game. Also, to the people criticizing the voice acting, sure, it may be a bit cheesy at times, but generally the VA performances were pretty good. And I'm oftenm quite critical of voice acting in games. If you wanna see bad acting go play the first Starpoint Gemini, the VA in that game is absolutely legendary (Still a great game though).
After 40+ hours of play i came to think of Between the Stars as a visual novel that tries to slow you down with unnecessary dice rolls and lackluster combat. The space sim part is rather weak really. You are flying capital ships, so there is no fancy maneuring, no clever builds. Basicaly, whoever has better equipment wins. So you just upgrade when you can. The story however is quite good. There are consequences to your choices, the story branches out with key characters present or absent further down the plot depending on your actions. Its fun to read. Just turn off dice rolls in game settings :) This could have made cool anime series. Seriously.
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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 1,724 positive votes out of a total of 2,301 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.
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.
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