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Star Story: The Horizon Escape

The archeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. You are sure you have to escape this planet. But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? At…

76 5 September 2017 ESRB E10+

Star Story: The Horizon Escape is an adventure developed by Evil Corporation Games, released 5 September 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Star Story: The Horizon Escape is

Star Story: The Horizon Escape is an adventure game developed by Evil Corporation Games and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The archeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. You are sure you have to escape this planet. But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? At least you know what you should do next... “Star Story: The Horizon Escape” offers you a perfect way to relax in a sci-fi Wild West-esque world of the Horizon. Want to blow off some steam? Go kick some local monsters *cough* tails. Feel an urge to test your wits and luck? You will have tons of puzzles to solve and decisions to take. Like to make cool shiny things out of nothing? There you go. All the Horizon’s scrap is here for you. Or maybe you just want to meet new people and visit…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 40 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Star Story: The Horizon Escape holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 2.0 GHz+ Dual Core Processor or higher, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 3000 or higher. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB.

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What it launched against

Star Story: The Horizon Escape launched on 5 September 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Doki Doki Literature Club!. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.

Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club!.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Star Story: The Horizon Escape — frequently asked questions

When did Star Story: The Horizon Escape come out?
Star Story: The Horizon Escape was released on 5 September 2017 for Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
At minimum, Star Story: The Horizon Escape needs 2.0 GHz+ Dual Core Processor or higher, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 3000 or higher graphics, 4 GB available space of storage.
How many GB is Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
The PC version needs about 4 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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