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Starmancer

Starmancer is a space station building game offering gameplay with consequences, a living sandbox environment, crafting, and managing the daily lives of colonists. Send crews out to mine on asteroids, trade…

5 August 2021

Starmancer is an indie developed by Ominux Games, released 5 August 2021 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Starmancer is

Starmancer is an indie game developed by Ominux Games and released in 2021. It was published by Chucklefish Games. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After a catastrophe on Earth, humanity launches the Starmancer Initiative in a desperate attempt to seek refuge among the stars. Your task as a Starmancer is to construct and manage a colony capable of sustaining human life. A tragedy on Earth forced humanity to the stars. You awake in a damaged Ark and find yourself in a strange solar system populated with other factions that have formed alliances, colonized worlds, and developed new technologies. Starmancer places you in the middle of a real world, where your actions impact the universe, and where your station will have its own story. Trade with other factions, perform missions, and repel invaders. Your playthrough will create a unique…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Starmancer launched on 5 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.

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When did Starmancer come out?
Starmancer was released on 5 August 2021 for Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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