Ostranauts

Purchase Options

• Steam

Description

Ostranauts is a detailed simulation of owning and living aboard a spaceship, in a solar system where honest living is a slow death sentence. Create, build and customize your ship. Hire a crew to explore the universe, keep fuel in the tanks, food on their plates and the debt collectors at bay.

Features

• Players can build their ship, in any shape, from functioning modular parts. The parts have physical properties, they interact with each other, and can wear out over time.
• Crew members have physiological and emotional needs, ranging from basal needs like food, water, oxygen, and temperature, to more esoteric needs like privacy, security, intimacy, and esteem.
• Ostranauts is a detailed simulation, with many interdependent systems. Players will have to manage supplies, emotions, power grids, finances, security, social ties, and more to keep their enterprise alive, both literally and figuratively.
• Each crew member runs an AI that is constantly making choices based on their current needs and past experience. If one colleague is consistently comforting, and another threatening, an AI will seek out the former when they need security.
• Socializing with crew uses a system a lot like NEO Scavenger's combat, where players have social moves that can affect their moods and which replies are available. There are also single-use social moves that can be earned and used in this system to help in managing the encounter.
• You flip the switches, turn the knobs, and see the readouts of your ship's systems.
• Just like in NEO Scavenger, the game is rich with hidden lore for those who want to seek it. Colonies and factions have long histories. Everyday products have brands and marketing. Unexplained phenomena have rumors echoing through the media and hidden files. And for those that don't care, it doesn't get in the way.
• The tech-level in Ostranauts is near-future, but plausible. There is no faster-than-light travel, no sound in a void, no dogfighting, nor force fields. On the other hand, some ultra tech exists for the purposes of aesthetics and storytelling. E.g. fusion efficiency, cooling, and radiation shielding are enhanced. FTL texting is possible (albeit expensive and low-bandwidth). And the unexplained supernatural events seen in NEO Scavenger are not limited to Earth.
• The challenge of Ostranauts is in the decisions it presents, not the player's endurance or reaction time. It plays in real-time with pause and fast-forward, to allow players to play at their own pace (similar to other management sims). Players should be able to take a break when they need to, and resume later. Similarly, players can fast-forward if they get bored, with the game auto-stopping when something requires the player's attention.
• Josh Culler, composer of the haunting NEO Scavenger soundtrack, is back again with an all-new body of work, specifically crafted for Ostranauts.
• Most of the game's data is in plain-text files for easy access. Modders who want to make their experience more unique will be able to edit a wide variety of game data.

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About Blue Bottled Games

Blue Bottle Games Blue Bottle Games makes video games for players who enjoyed pen and paper role-playing and strategy games. Our games are detail-oriented, and focus on exploring worlds, deep systems, customizing characters and equipment, creative problem solving, and story. Prior to founding BBG, Daniel Fedor was Lead Tech Artist and Associate Producer at BioWare for 7 years, working on titles including Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Mass Effect 3. He also holds a degree in physics, and has worked on a range of projects including publishing e-commerce sites, rocket and satellite telemetry analysis software, and airport monitoring software.

Press Kit

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Selected Articles

• “Revealed at Gamescom 2020, a new story trailer gives a sense of one of the stories the simulation can throw together, telling the story of a new captain organising how to steal a junked spaceship by scavenging and putting together a crew.”

  Joe Skrebels - Ostranauts Early Access Release Date Set for September

• “Any conversation about Ostranauts should start with its setting, which is a bit like the setting of The Expanse series, only if it had all its optimism knocked out, along with its teeth, by a hammer in the shape of Blade Runner.”

  Nate Crowley - Ostranauts is a jaw-dropping space sim, trapped in a brutal interface

• “New never-before-seen gameplay footage and a development update for spaceship simulation game Ostranauts”

  TurtleGirl - OSTRANAUTS GETS NEW DEVELOPER UPDATE

• “The RPG simulator will have you running a space station during a dystopian era, forcing you to make some wise choices for yourself and all who live there.”

  Gavin Sheehan - Ostranauts Receives A New Gameplay Trailer