Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Released Sep 2017
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
82% positive · 183 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Star Story: The Horizon Escape launched into Early Access on April 14, 2017, and graduated to its full 1.0 release on September 5, 2017. The developer described this release as the "fully complete, revised and improved version of the game," having rewritten the story with 24 alternative endings and significantly expanded the world. Following launch, EvilCoGames released a series of bug-fix and polish patches through October 26, 2017, addressing crashes, localization issues, and achievement bugs. All three DLC items — the soundtrack, a free artbook, and a paid artbook support pack — were released by November 2017. There have been no developer communications since October 26, 2017, no announced future content, no unreleased DLC, and no roadmap pointing to anything beyond the 1.0 release. The game launched as a self-contained, story-complete product and the developer's post-launch activity consisted solely of stabilization patches before going quiet. This is consistent with a finished product that shipped complete.
Evidence
Final developer communication: patch v1.710.25 fixing achievement bugs, localization, and performance. No further updates or posts after this date.
Developer announced the 'fully complete, revised and improved version' of the game leaving Early Access, with a rewritten non-linear story featuring 24 alternative endings.
Content
3 of 3 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
EvilCoGames
Achievements
40
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
What is Star Story: The Horizon Escape?
The archaeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. Can you escape from this planet? But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? Do you have a plan? Will you find what it takes to be a hero?
Sounds great! Give me more details!
Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a turn-based adventure game with text-rpg elements.
Tune into the story of the aspiring space-archaeologist Van Klik on his mission to the mysterious planet of Horizon!
The archaeological research mission faced some unexpected difficulties. Your spaceship crashed. Can you escape from this planet? But how? No one can help you. You are here all alone. Or not? Do you have a plan? Will you find what it takes to be a hero?
Sounds great! Give me more details!
Star Story: The Horizon Escape is a turn-based adventure game with text-rpg elements.
Tune into the story of the aspiring space-archaeologist Van Klik on his mission to the mysterious planet of Horizon!
Non-linear plot development, 24 alternative endings
Your choices define the story. Totaly. Some will turn out better than others, some will worse and some will be straight up hilarious. You are to find the real true ending among your possible destinies and become a hero. Or maybe something more...
Text-based gameplay diversity
The core classic. Dive into the stories and find a way to exploit EVERY possible situation. Did you know that if you throw a lockpick at an attack droid, it will decide that you are stupid and will deactivate? Build your character, choose your alignments, learn the lore of the world. You will need it all to succeed.
Game mechanics
The story will throw a mix of dialogues, choices, turn-based battles, puzzles, weapon and resource crafting, technology research and more at you. You will use all you can to survive the challenging world of Horizon.
Turn-based philosophy
The player decides on the speed that he wants to play the game at. Everything is turn-based. There is no time-limit for making decisions, no quick-time events, no rush: you can take any amount of time to make your turn.
Beautiful world
Enjoy the wild and crazy sceneries of the world of Horizon. Deserts, jungles, cities, underground caverns… the list goes on.
Colorful characters
Meet the locals! Who is more to your liking? Side with “Bullet King” and uncover an ancient cryptic artifact. Or choose to undermine his brutal regime and make the local revolutionary your friend. Or screw them and go try to play romance with the alien girl? Or blow up the planet? Or… You get it!
Need A break? The Horizon Is Waiting!
P.S. Space shrimps are included...Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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