Buy Solar Echoes: The Star Legation PC key

Solar Echoes: The Star Legation is a choice-driven science-fiction visual novel with RPG elements. As starship commander Trey Donovan, you travel between worlds, manage an alien crew and negotiate with alien leaders amid interstellar conflict. Your choices and the reputations you build with your crewmates, alien leaders and romantic interests shape the story, its alliances and its endings.

Crew and diplomacy

You gather and manage an alien crew whose members come from cultures at war with one another. Build relationships with them, visit new worlds and encounter alien creatures, then use diplomacy, persuasion and cunning to try to unite the races under the Interstellar Union. Your decisions can lead to a peaceful alliance or an interstellar war, and can endanger your crew, yourself or an entire species.

You also negotiate with powerful alien leaders, make decisions as commander and can pursue romance with either of two female human contacts. Your choices affect your reputation with crew members, leaders and romantic interests, and those reputations influence the course of the story.

Choices and outcomes

The branching story contains over 500 choices. You customize Trey Donovan’s skills by choosing from eight character-design skill options; some skill-based choices unlock extra routes and content. The story has 32 possible endings, including five main endings, with three main endings each having five variations. The five main endings are voice-acted by three different voice actors each.

Presentation and combat

The visual novel combines realistic art with cel-shaded, anime-inspired touches. It features detailed backgrounds, cinematic camera work, animated sequences and expressive character sprites, some with over 100 expressions. Its dialogue and story include intrigue, humor, science, treachery and romance, alongside an original soundtrack by Andy Mitchell with over 90 minutes of music and more than 15 high-resolution CG illustrations to unlock.

Choice-driven combat is optional. You can use Kinetic Combat, which auto-plays and auto-wins, or play in Challenge Mode. The story takes 8–12 hours, with additional time for alternate routes and endings.