Posted on: April 11, 2025
Early Access review
draxez865
Verified ownerGames: 11 Reviews: 1
Astrox Imperium
Eve Offline basicaly. freaking awesome.
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Astrox Imperium
Description
Astrox Imperium is my attempt to create the space game that I wanted to play, but no one had created. I wanted a single player, open-world space game that is similar to games I enjoyed, like Homeworld and EVE, with economies, factions, and a story. A game where I could set all the parameters, and the universe would come alive with new challenges each time I played. I tried to take the best of what I liked from many of my favorite space games, and combine them into something simple but deep, familiar yet fresh, and enjoyably addicting to play.
The human struggle to survive is an all too familiar one. As the planet collapsed into an ecological depression, mankind as a whole is forced to expand his vision to the skies. A grand ship was built, and the ‘Imperium’ was scheduled to launch mankind into the future. With a new Quantum technology at its core, the Imperium was mankind’s greatest achievement. Putting aside all differences, the people of world came together. Under a common goal, the efforts of an entire generation came to fruition. The Imperium was ready to carry the dreams of us all, and with it, the hopes of finding a second chance.
Not any one person knows the whole truth, but from what can be gathered, here is what we know. The Imperium was destroyed, and many of the human pioneers perished during the event. The survivors congregated together and began to build a temporary home from the wreckage of the ship itself. At first they waited for rescue, but it wasn’t long before the first ones accepted their fate.
It has been 230 years now, and mankind has been quite busy out there in the stars. The story of the Imperium, passed down through the generations, have all but faded away completely.
The main game play loops are fairly simple, and familiar. What makes Astrox Imperium unique, is the way that you can easily glide between the various loops to maintain a nice level of progression, without it feeling any more ‘grindy’ than you want it to. Sure, you can just mine rocks if you want, but Astrox Imperium provides you many different ways to progress your pilot.
As with most space games of this genre, mining is a big mechanic of Astrox. It is the easiest way to earn credits, and most players are familiar with how it works. You can also complete contract missions. These are randomly generated missions that offer a variety of task and objectives to complete. Some of these contracts are combat missions that will involve raiders, pirates, and sometimes regular npcs. The combat missions offer a bit more action to an otherwise relaxed game. The rate at which you choose to progress is up to you. You are given a number of game options allowing you to adjust 'the grind' and speed of the game. There are a number of small, interesting little mechanics sprinkled throughout the game that were given a lot of thought and care, but you will not find anything groundbreaking or innovative here. This game is meant to feel comfortable and familiar. The game play loops are designed to be simple enough to understand quickly, and complex enough to enjoy over many hours of play.
Many of the classic mechanics from the space game genre have been incorporated into Astrox Imperium. Basic interface controls were designed using elements from some RTS and FPS games. All the fan favorites and core game play elements have been included; mining, crafting, trading, refining, fleets, combat, exploration, survival, and more. This game will seem familiar to fans of the space survival / exploration game genre. Here is a list of features that are currently in the game. Check out our community forum if you are looking for more information about upcoming features.
Basic Features Overview
All features listed here are currently in Development
- Non-linear Story - Choose your own adventure... The ending is in your control.
- Open World - Free to do as you please, go where you want, do what you want.
- Exploration - Over 100 maps to explore, each with unique resources, stations, structures and secrets.
- Flight - You can fly your ships with the mouse, WASD, or point and click. (Partial controller support)
- Camera Control - You have full control of the camera. 3D rotational focus, first and 3rd person , and follow behind views with lots of options.
- Mining - 12 different types of resources to collect.
- Skills- 100+different skill to train.
- Refining - Break down ore into raw materials and components used for crafting.
- Crafting - Use those raw materials and components to create new items.
- Trading & Economy - Profit from the simulated economy with trade.
- Missions - 15 unique mission types. Contract missions for the 18 game factions.
- Factions -18 factions, ratings effect all areas of life in the Astrox Universe.
- Combat - Real time, dynamic, tactical and strategic. hundreds of weapons, ECM, drones, bombs , ships and more.
- Smart AI - Intelligent, and plays by the same rules are you do.
- Life support -expand your range of exploration, manage and upgrade your life support systems.
- Ships-Currently over 70 ships and growing.
- Drones -10 unique drones , each with special abilities. Automate their control, or manually manage their tasks.
- Fleets - Build a fleet of up to 10 Merc ships. Command and control their actions individually or as a group.
What to expect during Development phase of Astrox Imperium
- The addition of Structure fabrication.
- New mechanics to allow for towing large objects thru space.
- The ability to anchor large objects.
- The ability to retire a Merc into an administration position of a station.
- Administrative Mercs will generate revenue and bonuses based on their position and location.
- A complete story line for each of the 6 main factions
- New mod tools (Map editor, Skybox editor) and extensive modding documentation, along with tutorial videos.
- The addition of gangs, that work as a cohesive unit, to perform a specific task, from a list of nefarious options.
- Sandbox options, with various game modes.
- A broad number of tweaks, balances, and graphical enhancements.
- Optimization of ship turret math, and enemy AI logic.
- New missions, events, items, document, drones, weapons, etc.
- New transitional scene welcoming you to the medical bay from the new campaign creation.
- New unique endgame scene for each story line.
What NOT to expect
- Astrox is NOT a fast-paced space shooter... there is no mouse aiming.
- Astrox is NOT a Real-time strategy game, There is no band-boxing and group movement commands.
- Astrox is NOT an idle game. There are things you can do AFK, but this game requires user input to play.
- Astrox is NOT multiplayer. I may add some co-op in the future, but Astrox will never be a MMORPG.
- Astrox is NOT another vaporware EA project. The original Astrox launched on March 23rd 2014
What to expect from me, the developer.
- I will listen to all feedback, and do my best to adjust the game to make it the best it can be.
- I will not leave for any extended period of time during the Early Access phase of the game.
- I will update the game frequently with bug fixes taking priority over new features and shiny do-dads.
- I will be extremely active, accessible, and available on our forums and discord channels.
- I will not ruin the game with in-game payments, subscriptions, or anything that requires additional payment.
- I will always be extremely thankful and grateful that you took some time out of your life to play Astrox. Thank you!
Popular achievements
First Mission Completed
Look at me... I'm employed.
common
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32.25%
First 100 Adamyte Ore Mined
Get them mining lasers dirty already.
common
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31.56%
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User reviews
Posted on: March 30, 2020
Early Access review
Sideer
Verified ownerGames: 286 Reviews: 1
A pleasant disappointment:)
I have bought it, tried out for a few mins... and decided to leave it for later thinking it is just average space based game. Once I got back to it and decided to spend more time exploring game interface and mechanics I have discovered really interesting game. You can do whatever You like to earn money here whenever it is mining, salvaging junk, refining ores, fabricating "stuff" for personal use or for sale, doing missions, hunt pirates, became assassin or a pirate- it really is up to Your liking. The way it is implemented is too really nice- there is no need to have inhuman reflexes or 3d orientation to handle ship. Your pilot has various skills which affect different areas of the game- some will let ship fly faster, haul more cargo at once, be more resistant to damage, or became more efficient at mining or fabricating items... or be better at hiring mercenary help. Graphics is also nice and at the same time it is not overflowing with various effects which might make things like combat harder to read. Version 0.0093 does not have faction plot implemented but game itself is VERY playable especially if You toy around with sandbox mode. I've spend in game around 80h and only once I was forced to use "Import pilot" feature as a work around a bug- which proves it is already very stable. I'm looking forward for full game version now:)
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Posted on: April 14, 2020
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CatGog2017
Verified ownerGames: 127 Reviews: 36
A realistic space sim that's fun to play
I have been watching this game for a while and part of what won me over is the detailed and regular communication the Dev has with his customers and potential customers. Just today, I played for about 3 hours straight and never noticed the time. The game manages to address the difficulty of space battles (the pain of dying) by providing choices of what happens after you die, restart, load save, etc. Want to be iron man, that's up to you, want to go back to save (that's me) do that. The mining is so relaxing, the sound and movement of the beams, the refining, it's all so good, and as much fun as I'm having now, the game isn't fully designated as "done", so that means more fun can be added. I have all the top name space games like this one, NMS (a decent game, a bit too fluffy and stingy on space battle missions), and others, but THIS one is holding my attention. There's so many options to choose from in what you want to be, miner, trader, pirate, law, etc, so many ships to save up to buy, same thing with the weapons and modules. Just traveling from point A to point D becomes a challenge in and of itself if you run into pirates. Do yourself a favor, if you want a space game you can loose yourself in, this is it.
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Posted on: November 24, 2024
Early Access review
AtominFlux
Verified ownerGames: 85 Reviews: 1
Eve Offline
Its close enough to Eve Online to scratch that itch without dealing with a-holes.
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Posted on: January 20, 2020
Early Access reviewVoke
Verified ownerGames: 16 Reviews: 1
Much Potential--Needs to be Finished.
As I say above. The game is a bit sterile now, however, it IS in development. The first few hours or maybe day is okay but after you learn the ropes you see there's not much to do. It has some bugs. Two missions were bugged. Once the pilot needing escort never arrived, the second time the "hunted" gave me a tutorial until I flagged "friendly fire" and killed him (that had to be a bug). I also lost 2 million credits when my Life Support items vanished when I logged back into the game for another session. The graphics are good and the combat isn't horrible, but mining is the best way to make money and the npcs are about as charismatic as the ones in Eve-Online. Still, for five bucks, I'd buy it in the hopes it fleshes out. I could return it now but I'll give the dev some slack since he clearly states it's in development.
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