Buy Star-Box: RPG Adventures in Space! PC key

Star-Box: RPG Adventures in Space! is a retro-styled RPG set in an open-world sandbox universe. You explore alien worlds, abandoned cities, overrun space stations, derelict ships and parallel dimensions, choosing how to shape your story. In the year 4135, you can get drawn into political conflict and lead a rebellion against a corrupt government and powerful corporations, or pursue other work and explore on your own.

Explore the universe

Choose your gender, starting vessel and the company that raised you. Take on missions to board space stations, fight their crews and steal technology; hunt beasts on alien worlds; visit shrines on ancient asteroids; or search abandoned medical ships where the undead roam. You can also explore randomly generated sectors where pirates roam, encounter dynamic events involving spatial anomalies, giant space-fish and human-hating AI programs, and seek out low-tax settlements to avoid the 100% tax Earth Gov imposes on purchases.

The story is optional. Humans are pledged to a company at age five and separated from their families for the next 20 years. After graduating from a company of your choice, you receive a ship for your excellent grades and can seek out your barely remembered mother, becoming caught up in a political struggle that threatens a 2,000-year dystopia.

Gather and equip

Collect hundreds of items, weapons and armours. Pick alien flowers for healing chemicals or usable genetic material, salvage scrap metal to repair and upgrade your mechanical bodyguards, and use futuristic drugs to boost your skills and health. You can equip armour, lasers and grenades, or upgrade your mechs to fight for you.

Choose your work

You can go it alone or work for several groups:

• Oberon Bounties: hunt criminals on alien worlds, space stations and powerful ships.
• The Collector’s Guild: retrieve strange objects in return for special armours.
• Earth Military: gain tax discounts and access to specialist ships.
• Cicero: seek out the mysterious figure, recently awakened from a 2,000-year cryo-nap, and work on his mission to change the universe.

Ship and ground combat

Ship battles take place from the bridge, where you issue orders and use your skills to destroy or capture enemy vessels. Each ship has its own missile, laser and cannon strengths, which work at different ranges. You can hire engineers, science officers and tactical officers to improve your combat abilities, and fly 19 unique vessels.

Disable an enemy ship’s engines to approach and board it. You can boost your shields and beam your mechs aboard to capture the vessel once its shields are down, or destroy it and salvage its hull for scrap. Ships have different numbers of mech bays for maintaining your mechanical bodyguards, and you can bring up to five allied mechs into battle. Ground missions take you across alien planets and through creepy space stations, where you fight alien creatures, pirates, corporate militias, space wasps and AI-controlled mechs. You can also choose a ship with an escape pod to survive its destruction.

Ironman mode

Ironman Mode gives you a single life and makes each decision consequential. Escape pods become vital to survival.