Thanks for that. Same here. I really enjoyed Colony Ship (did three playthroughs) and did something like 95% of the achievements. I would like to see more isometric sci-fi RPGs in the marketplace. There was a time I would have said post-apocalyptic as well, but that seems a bit oversaturated at this point in time.
Good luck with your game! I hope you will succeed in making it as you want, without too many necessary compromises. I'm going to keep my eye on this title. Looks like something for me exactly.
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ABOUT THIS GAME
Sector Unknown is an immersive isometric RPG that draws inspiration from classics like Fallout 2, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, Fallout: New Vegas, as well as more modern titles such as Wasteland 3, Encased, Colony Ship, Trudograd, and Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
Every decision, every nuance in character development has tangible consequences. While combat is a viable approach, the game equally emphasizes alternative strategies for progression, inviting players to leverage their character's unique abilities to navigate through the narrative creatively and diplomatically.
Story
In Sector Unknown, your saga begins as a prisoner aboard a transport ship. Employing your unique skills, you daringly escape in a commandeered escape pod, crash-landing on Maku, a forsaken world veiled within a remote and uncharted region of space. This desolate planet becomes the foundation of your odyssey as you convert an abandoned mining facility into your headquarters. From this stronghold, you will set forth into the cosmos, exploring six distinct worlds and dozens of other locations, each teeming with its own factions and unique stories.
In your quest, you will confront the shadowy dealings of Star Frontier, the powerful trade and mining corporation that once imprisoned you. Operating unchecked in the hidden 'null sector'—now absent from all official star charts—Star Frontier has established a tyrannical reign. Your mission becomes to unite the sector's planets, through either force or diplomacy, and overthrow their oppressive rule once and for all.
Sector Unknownweaves themes of exploration, discovery, and the pursuit of freedom, crafting an epic tale of adventure and rebellion in the boundless expanse of space.
Character Building
Before you begin your journey in Sector Unknown, you will first need to build your character, including their origin and personality. The origin selection offers both combat and non-combat advantages that deeply influence gameplay dynamics, including unlocking dialogue options and allowing for world interactions. The personality trait also augments one combat and non-combat ability.
Your character’s physical attributes will determine their combat efficacy and survivability. There are six main physical attributes: Strength, Coordination, Vision, Speed, Aggression, and Intelligence.
You can also hone a range of non-combat skills as well such as Engineering, Science, Computers, Biology, Finances, and Piloting. Non-technical skills include Intimidation, Persuasion, Perception, Luck, and Larceny. Each skill offers players an avenue to navigate story challenges, ensuring a multi-dimensional gameplay experience.
Planets
Throughout the main narrative of Sector Unknown, you will traverse a spectrum of unique planets, each with distinct factions and individual story arcs:
Each location promises a distinct environment and set of challenges that contribute to the rich tapestry of the game’s universe.
- Maku: A stark, barren world devoid of life, marking the starting point of the player's adventure.
- Eremtera: An ice-encased world with a frozen landscape, home to a derelict arc ship from a bygone era.
- Nabi: A desert planet, its vast sands contested by two long-forgotten human tribes.
- Helfyr: A fiery planet, rife with lava rivers and volcanic activity, and the site of extensive mining and military operations.
- Sjo: An oceanic world, its deep waters harboring a chemical compound of unknown potential, harvested by Star Frontier.
- Xenobiota: The enigmatic final planet, shrouded in secrets waiting to be discovered by the players.
Bounty Hunting
Your base will of course serve as a nexus for other activities as well, one of which will be the building of a bounty terminal, allowing you to pick up death mark contracts. With these contracts, you will track down elusive criminals or hunt rogue alien mega-fauna causing unrest across the various planets, with more perilous and rewarding bounty contracts unlocked through the research system.
Research
The research system in Sector Unknownis built upon the non-combat technical skills of your character. Take Biology for example: its research tree unfolds uniquely, unlocking components based on your character's skill level in that area. Similarly, Computers, Science, Engineering, Finances, and Piloting each come with their own distinct trees. These branches not only offer enhancements, bonuses, and unlocks but also underline the importance of your character’s skill increases and leveling choices.
War Score
The uprising itself will be undertaken on a galactic scale, adding a strategic layer to the game. As you progress through the story, you will bring new planets and factions into their alliance, expanding both your influence and reach. However, with each new planet added to your coalition, the stakes rise, thrusting them deeper into conflict with Star Frontier. Meeting this growing challenge requires reinforcing newly acquired planets, recruiting specialized support staff, building formidable fleets, and tackling pivotal side missions. The culmination of these efforts is reflected in your War Score. This score not only contributes to your character’s destiny but also that of the planets under your control as well.
Crafting
After claiming the abandoned mining facility on Maku as your base, you will be able to do many things from there, including crafting, enabling the forging of weapons, armor, shield generators, narcotics, injectors, and even starships. The crafting system boasts a rich matrix of over fifty organic and inorganic materials, encompassing everything from metals and inert gases to chemicals, fungi, and various flora. Successful component combinations yield superior items, tipping both combat and non-combat scenarios distinctly in your favor.
Your Story
In Sector Unknown, every choice you make shapes your journey. As you traverse through null sector, your interactions with characters and factions on each planet will uniquely influence the narrative. Your decisions determine not only the outcome of each planetary story arc but also the fate of the entire sector. From forging alliances to making tough moral choices, your path is yours to define. Whether through diplomacy, strategy, or combat, your story will unfold in a way that reflects your personal play-style and decisions, culminating in a truly bespoke gaming experience where you are the architect of your destiny.
Agreed. I would like to establish different styles for the corporate long-haulers vs the Star Frontier warships vs the modded pirate cutters.
Thanks for that! Much appreciated. Warsaw is a beautiful city by the way, I was there last winter for a few weeks.
I really like your game, what I have seen of it until now, obviously, and I hope you'll put in it everything you have in mind but...
The dev is known for half-arsed releases that get abandoned way sooner than it should.
Thanks, Fallout 2 is probably my most-played game of all time. The freedom is incredible. I think I have something like 170 hours on it, and that's just the Steam version.
Star Control 2 was a tricky game, that's one I'm not ashamed to say that I needed a guide to finish. Had to look up Planet's Edge, will check it out - seems like something I would have eaten up at the time it came out.
Sector Uknown - Prologue
Sector Unknown - Prologue
The store page for the free Prologue version of the game is now live!
Wishlist and follow for more details and updates.
About
"Sector Unknown - Prologue" offers a free introduction to the game's universe, providing players with around 2-3 hours of immersive gameplay. This standalone experience gives a sneak peek into the storyline and gameplay mechanics that the full version will expand upon.
In the Prologue, you begin as a prisoner on board a transport en route to the notorious Hell's Gate Prison, a sweltering station/colony orbiting perilously close to a blazing star. You'll have multiple ways to slip out of your cell, outsmart the crew, and eject from the ship before it meets its demise.
Your adventure continues as you find yourself marooned on Maku, the desolate first planet, following your escape. Here, you will undertake various tasks: from bringing a derelict mining facility back to life as your stronghold, to scouring the wreckage of the downed prison transport for essential supplies. Additionally, you'll encounter a group of rival pirates wrestling for control of the planet, and it's up to you to decide whether to use force or diplomacy to deal with them.
Wishlist and follow today for more updates!
Sector Uknown - Prologue
Sector Unknown - Prologue
The store page for the free Prologue version of the game is now live!
Wishlist and follow for more details and updates.
About
"Sector Unknown - Prologue" offers a free introduction to the game's universe, providing players with around 2-3 hours of immersive gameplay. This standalone experience gives a sneak peek into the storyline and gameplay mechanics that the full version will expand upon.
In the Prologue, you begin as a prisoner on board a transport en route to the notorious Hell's Gate Prison, a sweltering station/colony orbiting perilously close to a blazing star. You'll have multiple ways to slip out of your cell, outsmart the crew, and eject from the ship before it meets its demise.
Your adventure continues as you find yourself marooned on Maku, the desolate first planet, following your escape. Here, you will undertake various tasks: from bringing a derelict mining facility back to life as your stronghold, to scouring the wreckage of the downed prison transport for essential supplies. Additionally, you'll encounter a group of rival pirates wrestling for control of the planet, and it's up to you to decide whether to use force or diplomacy to deal with them.
Wishlist and follow today for more updates!
Sector Uknown - Prologue
Sector Unknown - Prologue
The store page for the free Prologue version of the game is now live!
Wishlist and follow for more details and updates.
About
"Sector Unknown - Prologue" offers a free introduction to the game's universe, providing players with around 2-3 hours of immersive gameplay. This standalone experience gives a sneak peek into the storyline and gameplay mechanics that the full version will expand upon.
In the Prologue, you begin as a prisoner on board a transport en route to the notorious Hell's Gate Prison, a sweltering station/colony orbiting perilously close to a blazing star. You'll have multiple ways to slip out of your cell, outsmart the crew, and eject from the ship before it meets its demise.
Your adventure continues as you find yourself marooned on Maku, the desolate first planet, following your escape. Here, you will undertake various tasks: from bringing a derelict mining facility back to life as your stronghold, to scouring the wreckage of the downed prison transport for essential supplies. Additionally, you'll encounter a group of rival pirates wrestling for control of the planet, and it's up to you to decide whether to use force or diplomacy to deal with them.
Wishlist and follow today for more updates!
Who is taking one for the team?
Devlog: Crafting & Resources In Sector Unknown
After claiming the abandoned mining facility on Maku as your base, you will unlock crafting in the game.
Greetings!
This is the first of several devlogs talking about the various systems in Sector Unknown.
After claiming the abandoned mining facility on Maku as your base, you will unlock crafting in the game. Crafting is broken down into the various schematic classes:
From there, schematic are organized further into sub-tiers. For example, weapons are further classed into pistol, carbine, rifle, and vibrosword tiers.
- Weapons
- Armor
- Energy Shields
- Injectors
- Narcotics
- Ships
Components & Success Rolls
Each crafting schematic has components. For example, a pistol will have the following components:
Each of these will require different resources. However, of note, each of these do not require crafting separately, they're simply part of the overall pistol schematic.
- Chassis
- Weapon Core
- Sights
- Barrel
- Grip
- Augment Slot
When crafting an item, you will roll a success level on each component, which in turn confers a bonus to that item. Using the pistol example, the success you manage to roll on the pistol's sights will determine it's Hit % bonus.
The success rolls are as follows:
- None
- Minimal
- Mediocre
- Good
- Great
- Excellent
- Masterful
- Flawless
- Legendary
The roll is determined by your characters appropriate attribute. Equipment will be determined by the characters Engineering stat, Injectors by the characters Science stat, and Narcotics by the character's Biology stat. Some items like repair kits or base items do not have success rolls.
Resources
Resources are broken down into Organic and Inorganic tiers, and then further into the following sub-tiers:
Resources can be looted from containers and fauna corpses, mined from planets in space, and scavenged from wrecks such as the crashed prison transport on Maku.
- Metal
- Gemstone
- Gas
- Chemical
- Tuber
- Fungi
- Stalk
- Flora
As well, junk and other items in your inventory can be deconstructed, returning a small amount of resources.
Terminals & Schematics
Crafting is done from the appropriate terminals in your base. Researching a particular terminal via the Computers research tree unlocks the terminals to be built via your base Fabricator. From there, if you have unlocked the various tiers of schematics available and you have enough resources, you can craft that item. There are three tier levels for each type of item to be crafted (for example, pistols have T1, T2, and T3 schematics).
Summary
Crafting is an optional part of the game, but one that can provide amazing equipment and items if the player chooses to engage in the mechanic. All of these features will also be available in the free Prologue version of the game.
Don't forget to wishlist and follow for release dates and information!
Never liked (because I'm inept, honestly) crafting, but I like everything this game is proposing.https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2890980/view/4212627958608062535
Devlog: Crafting & Resources In Sector Unknown
After claiming the abandoned mining facility on Maku as your base, you will unlock crafting in the game.
Greetings!
This is the first of several devlogs talking about the various systems in Sector Unknown.
After claiming the abandoned mining facility on Maku as your base, you will unlock crafting in the game. Crafting is broken down into the various schematic classes:
From there, schematic are organized further into sub-tiers. For example, weapons are further classed into pistol, carbine, rifle, and vibrosword tiers.
- Weapons
- Armor
- Energy Shields
- Injectors
- Narcotics
- Ships
Components & Success Rolls
Each crafting schematic has components. For example, a pistol will have the following components:
Each of these will require different resources. However, of note, each of these do not require crafting separately, they're simply part of the overall pistol schematic.
- Chassis
- Weapon Core
- Sights
- Barrel
- Grip
- Augment Slot
When crafting an item, you will roll a success level on each component, which in turn confers a bonus to that item. Using the pistol example, the success you manage to roll on the pistol's sights will determine it's Hit % bonus.
The success rolls are as follows:
- None
- Minimal
- Mediocre
- Good
- Great
- Excellent
- Masterful
- Flawless
- Legendary
The roll is determined by your characters appropriate attribute. Equipment will be determined by the characters Engineering stat, Injectors by the characters Science stat, and Narcotics by the character's Biology stat. Some items like repair kits or base items do not have success rolls.
Resources
Resources are broken down into Organic and Inorganic tiers, and then further into the following sub-tiers:
Resources can be looted from containers and fauna corpses, mined from planets in space, and scavenged from wrecks such as the crashed prison transport on Maku.
- Metal
- Gemstone
- Gas
- Chemical
- Tuber
- Fungi
- Stalk
- Flora
As well, junk and other items in your inventory can be deconstructed, returning a small amount of resources.
Terminals & Schematics
Crafting is done from the appropriate terminals in your base. Researching a particular terminal via the Computers research tree unlocks the terminals to be built via your base Fabricator. From there, if you have unlocked the various tiers of schematics available and you have enough resources, you can craft that item. There are three tier levels for each type of item to be crafted (for example, pistols have T1, T2, and T3 schematics).
Summary
Crafting is an optional part of the game, but one that can provide amazing equipment and items if the player chooses to engage in the mechanic. All of these features will also be available in the free Prologue version of the game.
Don't forget to wishlist and follow for release dates and information!
Unless game is built around crafting mechanics (Cataclysm: DDA or NEO scavenger, for example), it's usually a bit meh system.
