Interstellar Marines
Interstellar Marines is an immersive tactical sci-fi First Person Simulator in the making, offering a unique blend of tactical gameplay, dynamic environments and non-scripted AI. Play Singleplayer or Co-op/PvP on servers around the world.
Interstellar Marines is inspired by movies such as Aliens, Starship Troopers and Saving Private Ryan; and games such as Half-Life, Deus Ex, System Shock 2, and Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield.
Interstellar Marines is all about evolving the FPS recipe with the inspirations we’ve assimilated since the birth of the genre. Our goal is an evolutionary leap forward driven by our compulsive interest in science fiction, role-playing, military realism, and respect for first person immersion.Interstellar Warfare InitiativeIt is the dawn of the 22nd century, a time of great hopes and expectations. The discovery of a new and inexhaustible well of power known as Zero Point Energy has revolutionized space travel. Man has escaped the confines of Mother Earth, and gone on to colonize the solar system.
But far away from public awareness an ambitious military project has already taken Man beyond the final frontier, and into the regions of the stars. The powerful Interplanetary Treaty Organization, ITO, is secretly constructing the first human settlement in another star system.
You are a special forces soldier training to join the Interstellar Marines, a part of the secret Interstellar Warfare Initiative being established to protect humanity against potential threats from the confines of the unknown universe.
It’s time to evaluate the Interstellar Warfare Initiative and program evaluations are taking place at The Vault, ITO’s most advanced military facility on Earth enclosed deep beneath Groom Lake, Nevada. Supervised by SARA, ITO’s central neural network AI, SARA will program artificial weather and advanced combat training robots to test each warfare initiative to the limits.
This is where the game begins …7 Singleplayer/Co-op MissionsPlay 5 co-op and single-player missions against unscripted AI with dynamic environment effects or two pivotal missions inside the Interstellar Marines universe, The NeuroGen Incident and Assault on Starcrown Aerospace. Play singleplayer or co-op with up to three friends in intense action with more co-op and singleplayer missions to come!Wargames (Sandbox Combat Arena)Unique sandbox combat arena in the making. Wargames is played across 9 distinct interconnected environment zones allowing 64 players to join in the scavenge for combat points, playing alone or in co-op. We have a special Wargames Steam Leaderboard which tracks Combat Points globally, monthly, and survivors of Wargames.
9 Unique Multiplayer Maps Across 3 Game ModesTake your friends out in Deadlock, Deathmatch, and Team Deathmatch on maps featuring dynamic environment effects such as time of day, rain, thunder and lightning, emergency lighting, fire alarms, moving platforms etc.Realistic SimulationWith a physics-based dynamic character controller there are no floating hands, and you can even see your feet! The physically present combat helmet has a HUD projected onto the visor and is affected by dust, rain, fogging, and damage. Aim down the sight for the long shots and use the tactical laser to assist aim when hip firing, as there are no artificial crosshairs to break immersion. Use the intuitive crouch and cover system; spacebar (default) peeks over cover, and looking down leans you forward to see over ledges. You can also shoot out the lights and prowl in darkness, or use the tactical flashlight if you’re afraid of the dark.
We hope you enjoy the game, and look forward to developing it with you as we progress through Early Access!
FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME,
Your team at Zero Point Software
Steam User 26
*** Don't buy this game ***
The devs stopped working on Interstellar Marines in 2019 when they ran out of funds.
Interstellar Marines is still fun but has more or less zero players.
The game is only enjoyable if you want to fight robots alone, or, if you invite others to play with you in coop.
Today we were 3 players online today but --- don't have too high expectations to see other players.
IM has very few coop servers at this point; the only 4-player-slot coop server is in the US.
In the EU we have only a couple of 2-player-slot coop servers.
I started playing Interstellar Marines back in 2014/2015.
Yesterday I returned after a few years absence.
IM had one of the best scifi coop gameplay experiences at that time.
R.I.P.
(Unless Resurrected)
Steam User 12
Community's down and needing a revive
THIS GAME WOULD BE SO AMAZING WITH MULTIPLAYER
Steam User 13
One of the best games that never was. I remember playing on servers with only a few people, it was heaps of fun - imagine what it would be like if this game had not entered development hell. A real shame that the same kinds of people who play other tactical shooters don't recognise this game for what it is: an absolute blast.
Unfortunately the game is dead as far as I'm aware. I'd love to see a return to this game, and given the quality of what is already there I have no doubt there is a possibility.
Steam User 12
When I bought this game the first mission I was introduced to was the recovery mission of a document aboard a space craft. I was like "A'ight."
You're aboard a well-lit dropship and you leave to enter a nightmarish hanger bay with far too much space to run in to then move in through constricted corridors full of robots that you hear nearly miles away with their "thudding" footfalls on the metal surface. Followed by the "eeEEE-WHOOOOOOOP!" noise as they go for the attack. I just played it and by golly it's still a spooky experience.
The PvP was one of the rare moments in games where I played and legitimately had fun because it was perfectly balanced. Everyone had the same gun, the same skin, no bullshit cosmetics or enhancements on weaponry to give anyone else an edge. Just pure skill. Top that off with maps that cycled through day and night, where water sprinkles would come on to resemble rain showers falling on to your visor complete with a hud Republic Commando style which you can open and close on a dime. Now and again the AI would be a bitch and disable the hud completely, making you rely solely on noise. You can't even see the scoreboard. You hear gunshots off in the distance, stops, then wonder "Was that one of my guys?" You pull down your visor and see that one of your bro's just got taken down. Well... shit.
This game had some great damn charm to it and it's an absolute tear-jerked to believe it's no longer going to get developed further. If this had been successful I have no doubt it would've been real popular with sci-fi nerds that love realism to boot.
Steam User 11
Dont expect active multiplayer, its pretty much dead. but if you get a group of friends together to play the co-op missions, its quite a solid first person shooter.
Its not perfect, but its honestly not bad.
Steam User 17
How is a game that has been abandoned for years still available as if it is being progressed in with development? Weird. Wish I could refund this.
Steam User 4
it was FUN with my friends