Star Horizon
Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre. You are John, a private in the service of the Federation…
Star Horizon is an adventure developed by Orbital Knight, released 18 June 2014 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux.
What Star Horizon is
Star Horizon is an adventure game developed by Orbital Knight and released in 2014. It was published by No Gravity Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre. You are John, a private in the service of the Federation who doesn’t fight to rack up kills or for honour and pride, he just fights to survive and get the whole thing over with. His ship is controlled by Ellie, an Artificial Intelligence which is programmed to help pilots stay mentally strong throughout the war and which can not kill human beings When her Mothership is destroyed Ellie puts John into hibernation for 1000 years. Now he will have to discover what really happened and maybe, but just maybe, save the galaxy.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Star Horizon holds a critic score of 43 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 26 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Star Horizon launched on 18 June 2014, within three weeks of Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove and Divinity: Original Sin. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 8, Shovel Knight, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, Divinity: Original Sin.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
Star Horizon — frequently asked questions
When did Star Horizon come out?
If you like this
