Quantum Derelict
ABOUT QUANTUM DERELICT
“Quantum Derelict” is a rogue-lite, story-driven survival horror game set on a ship that unpredictably leaps across the cosmos. In this chilling Lovecraftian inspired nightmare, your mission is to endure, gather resources to repair your spacecraft, and find intelligent extraterrestrial life that might aid in your return to Earth.
Stranded alone on a damaged spaceship, survival seems impossible. Yet, as the ship’s resourceful engineer, you utilize scientific drones on board, repurposing them as resource gatherers to mine and salvage the materials surrounding you in the vastness of space. These adaptable drones are also capable of being recoded to undertake crucial tasks, such as repairing weapons, maintaining life support, and upgrading communications. The ship’s artificial intelligence, Ada, is your companion and guide in this daunting journey to reach out to the seemingly infinite expanse of space in hopes of finding a savior.
However, the situation grows dire as sinister entities lurk in the interstellar darkness, tracking and hunting you. Your survival hinges on your ingenuity to outmaneuver the ominous cult of VUGSHERYOG and the unspeakable horrors trailing in its wake. The game charts a harrowing tale of a plunge into madness as you grapple with maintaining your sanity in the face of these alien horrors. Your personal journal logs all events, including data uncovered by Ada from the ship’s mainframe, serving as a lifeline for your mental wellbeing. It might even bear testament to your ordeal if your journey ends in disaster.
In “Quantum Derelict” you mine resources, repair the ship and try to retain your sanity. Evade the lurking horrors, find your way home, and, hopefully, tell your tale.
FEATURES:
- Unfolding Horror Story! – Play through a Lovecraftian inspired horror story as you are trapped on a derelict spaceship trying to find a way back home.
- Survive! – Manage your ship’s systems and your personal health while you search for rescue.
- Mine! – Mine space debris and salvage derelict ships at each point of space to gather resources for your drones to fix the various systems of your ship and provide you with the care you need.
- Drones! – Manage a fleet of drones to help you survive and find rescue. Your drone fleet is your lifeline.
- Defend! – Defend your ship against the cult of VUGSHERYOG as they hunt you with your turret systems and a quantum pulse that will defeat any enemy ship.
- Dynamic Cosmic Horrors! – Entities are aware of you. They are tracking you. They want to destroy you. Run, fight, survive!
- Craft! – Craft new drones to add to your inventory and recharge existing ones with a low battery.
- Unlock new abilities! – As resources on the ships computer become available, code and upgrade new software for your drones to give them new abilities to help you survive!
Game Discussion
Steam User 1
Honestly, I enjoyed this game.
The loop is basically the same. You start off with minimal resources. You send you drones out to gather more resources, and improve your ship's capabilities. Improve your scanner, and you can reveal more resources per scan. Improve your quantum drive, and get more time in each area. So forth.
You can also build more drones, and improve their capabilities. These drones stay with you, even when you eventually lose, making the next run easier.
A timer counts down, and when it finishes your quantum drive jumps you into a new area if you are ready or not...which really is fine since each area is just randomized resources. Events can also happen, forcing you to jump to a new location to avoid an early game over. Eventually, you'll pick an area clean quickly and end up forcing your ship to jump early. Each jump gives you additional points you can use to improve your drones.
Eventually, you'll be able to survive long enough to repair your communications array and call for help...but this is not the end of the game. Before the game is truly over, you end up reaching several false-endings. You'll have to play for yourself to see how it really ends.
I can understand complaints about the "hunt and peck" nature of the game. Some of the backgrounds are very bright, making it hard to spot the space debris and click on it so you can decide to harvest it or not. Later in the game, drone advancements will help your drones do it for you. Once I got over the inconvenience of seeing the debris, and starting seeing it as part of the challenge, I started enjoying it more.
The AI voices are a bit rough. I don't really mind it for the ship's AI...it sort of makes sense there, after all. But the narrator voice is also painfully AI generated, and that took away a bit from my experience.
I think fans of idle/incremental games but whom are looking for a horror hook would enjoy this. It shares a lot of the "numbers go up" mentality of those games. I got it on sale, and don't regret it.
Steam User 0
Great game, it looks complex at 1st but it's quite simple actually. The story is very good if you are into cosmic horror
/ lovecraftian stuff. In a nutshell it's a mining/survival roguelite, well worth the price, lots of bang for the buck.
Steam User 0
The story and atmosphere is to ... die for..
Steam User 0
great little hidden gem of a game.