Starseed Pilgrim (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Starseed Pilgrim

Starseed Pilgrim is a puzzle game where the player adds blocks with different proporties to each other, trying to get as far as possible as the blocks disappear.

90 16 April 2013

What Starseed Pilgrim is

Starseed Pilgrim is an adventure game developed by Droqen and released in 2013. It was published by Droqen's Games. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Starseed Pilgrim is a 2013 puzzle-platform game from independent developer droqen. Players plant 'starseeds' which grow into plants, each with different growth patterns and interaction mechanics. Players plant these starseeds on floating platforms and on fully-grown plants in order to traverse the game world. The game was developed in Adobe Flash and was released in April 2013 for Windows and OS X. Reviewers praised Starseed Pilgrim's game mechanics and the process of learning their interactions, but criticized the learning curve as steep. The game was a finalist for the Excellence in Design award at the 2013 Independent Games Festival.

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Starseed Pilgrim holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 20 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 512 MB RAM. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Starseed Pilgrim launched on 16 April 2013, within three weeks of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Age of Empires II HD and BattleBlock Theater. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Age of Empires II HD, BattleBlock Theater.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Starseed Pilgrim yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Starseed Pilgrim — frequently asked questions

When did Starseed Pilgrim come out?

Starseed Pilgrim was released on 16 April 2013 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Starseed Pilgrim?

At minimum, Starseed Pilgrim needs 512 MB RAM, 30 MB HD space of storage.

How many GB is Starseed Pilgrim?

The PC version needs about 0 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("30 MB HD space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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