Star Control: Origins
Star Control: Origins is a science fiction action-adventure game that combines planetary exploration, diplomacy with alien races, and one-on-one ship-to-ship space battles. Players captain a starship, sending…
Star Control: Origins is an adventure developed by Stardock, released 20 September 2018 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 30 hrs to finish.
What Star Control: Origins is
Star Control: Origins is an adventure game developed by Stardock and released in 2018. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the year 2088, humanity's space agency Star Control launches Earth's first interstellar-capable ship to investigate an alien distress signal. The player takes the role of that ship's captain, venturing out from the Solar System into a largely unknown galaxy. What begins as a response to a single signal opens into a wider journey of exploring distant worlds, making contact with alien species, and navigating the alliances and conflicts that follow. Characters, species, and events encountered along the way present quests that draw the captain deeper into the galaxy and its mysteries.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 88 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Star Control: Origins holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 30 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 59 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core Intel or AMD processor, 4 GB RAM and Intel Integrated 520 or equivalent. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 26GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Star Control: Origins launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Star Control: Origins yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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