Starscape

Bu oyunu ilk kez sabah gazetesinin verdiği pro gamer dergisinden çıkan cd içerisinden ulaşmıştım. 21 mb gibi bir oyuna boyutuna göre çok güzel detaylar sığdırılmış. Oyun kesinlikle parasını hak ediyor. Ben nostaji olarak aldım oynadım. Sizlere de tavsiye ederim eskilere dönmek ve bu oyunu steam üzerinde görmek gözlerimi yaşarttı...

Starscape was one of the first games I had on PC way back in the day. It provided me hours upon hours of entertainment along with BG1, Traffic Department 2192, Doom, Wolfenstein, and a handful of other DOS games. I'm so happy it's on Steam.

Nice space shooter where you can mine asteroids and loot enemy space ships to upgrade your own ship and mothership with different upgrades and weapons. Space pirates and zombies is a very similar game to this, that probably took inspiration from this. Take notice there's some really bad design choices in this: . Movement is super clunky and you can't strafe, you can't use mouse either . Bosses are hard and unfair, they will not only kill you in 2-3 they will also swarm you with small enemies and when you thought the fight is done, they will send in another OP small ship, be prepared to try several times until you can make it . You can't skip conversations and you always have them before bosses . There's no ultrawide support and view range is very limited . You need to restore your ship and mothership all the time, and you can't even do it from subspace, you need to enter a node . Menus overall are super clunky and badly organized . worst shield design I've seen in a game, the shield occupies a huge area around the ship and any hits that go above it's damage absorption will take your hp directly instead of the projectiles having to hit the ship at all Overal 10/10 game idea, 4/10 implementation The world needs more games with this type of concept with better gameplay.

One of my favorite games when I was like 12, unfortunately I was very poor and did not actually own the game, I just played the demo over and over. Finally, one day in my adulthood, I remembered that this game existed and found I was able to purchase it on Steam. Great game, top down space shooter with light looter mechanics.

Take me years to remember this game and return to my childhood, worth all the way.

Early indie classic. I played this on a CRT with a ball mouse sitting on my bedroom floor wearing the worst earphones money could buy.

I started playing Starscape over a decade ago, over a holiday break, and for one reason or another it got abandoned mid way through (Zone 3 i think), however it lingered in the back of my mind as being fun, a bit simplistic, and definitely worth finishing. So, in 2022, in the spirit of defeating the backlog, this indie game got another shot. In 2022 though, Starscape is achingly dated, though it severely dated even back in 2011 (having been released in 2003). The resolution is limited at 800x600 (yes, 4x3) and the steam fps counter was resolutely stuck at 22fps throughout. These issues don't matter too much though, as the art style is pleasingly retro, with a cartoony grace that a higher resolution would wash away the human touch. The game-play, a cross between asteroids and space war, with a minor crafting element, is enjoyable, if a bit samey over the 20 hrs or so to finish the game, though it has to be said, that there is a frankly outrageous difficulty curve in the last third of the game. The story is somewhat generic: advanced earth spaceship gets lost, has to defeat aliens and escape back home, and though told through text boxes, it's not too in your face, while providing a clear motivation for continuing, and there's more here if you're willing to go looking for it. Similarly sound effects and music are serviceable, nothing amazing, and harking back to the halcyon days when the game was released, you might well want to pop on a podcast (or, more appropriately, some mp3's) in the background. But despite the minor gripes above, I still recommend this game, even in 2022. Perhaps even more so now, than I might have done in 2011; as hand-held gaming PC's like the Steam Deck, and the Aya Neo are finally making the dream of a reasonably powerful gaming PC on the go a reality. In that world, a game like Starscape, with its 'fight and mine your way through one more node' mentality is the perfect thing to play in short bursts.

That's the game of my childhood still works well on modern PCs. It was distributed as shareware on the magazines' CDs. Plays well on modern PCs even if graphics are outdated already.