Star Horizon
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About the Game
Key features
- Immersive action – engage in fast paced, immersive space battles
- Upgrade your ship – buy upgrades and finish your enemies in multiple, fun ways.
- Fun story – experience a mature story of a man and his AI spiced up with absurd and dark humor
- Choices & consequences – make quick decisions – do you help your friends but fail your mission? Do you aid a space merchant and engage in a fight? Consequences of your choices alter the flow of the story.
Story
A struggle between the Inter Galactic Corporation (a.k.a The Federation), which controls the entire galaxy, and the Rebels continues. You assume the role of John, a simple private space-pilot in the service of the Federation. Well.. the word “pilot” might be an overstatement. John’s ship AI – which he calls “Ellie” – takes almost all control of the ship. The space battles are coordinated by Motherships and “pilots” serve the mere role of the shooters (as the AI can’t ‘kill’).
IGC is about to turn the tide of the war but an accident happens. Your Mothership is blown up into pieces which makes Ellie go crazy. It puts John into hibernation and wakes him up several years later in a completely different setting. What really happened? What is the AI up to?
Will the two – John and Ellie – change the fate of the Universe?
Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre.
Game Discussion
Steam User 28
This is a very Starfox / Panzers Dragoon style game. Enjoyable game play. Great graphics. Some audio that repeats saying could be lessened in frequency, but that's not a game breaking issue. I would recommend this game.
Steam User 11
Welcome to ultimate rip-off. Space battles "on rails" like in Star Wars:The Old Republic with typical story, where main villain possess Terminator personality, quotes Borg collective and have weakness like Death Star. Game for 2 hours,but at least they were not boring.
Buy when it will be cheaper. 7/10.
Steam User 18
Simple arcade game, but I enjoyed it a lot. Graphics fine for me. Spend some time playing and game wasn't boring. Shooter "on rails" is not my favourite type of game but it is "on rails" so let it be.
Plus:
- simple and fun arcade game
- nice graphics with fine effects
- fine music/sound/fx
- just brilliant DLC with soundtrack!!! Amazing music I can hear in my car all time long!!!
- interesting story behind
- nice try to balance level of gameplay
- upgrades
Minus:
- steering ported directly from mobile version, not exactly good for PC game
- some places in the game that might be very annoying
- not possible to change steering keys through settings which is very difficult because I'm "left handed"
- as I read some problems with PADs might occur
- you're buying fun only for few hours
Overall rating: 7/10
Price/quality: 9/10
Steam User 10
It's a fun casual game. Thought it was gonna be more like Starfox. It's still good though. The aiming is kinda weird, but you just have to fly the ship in the right spot. Some people say the voice acting is cheesy, but I thought it was pretty funny. It's a good price if you get it half off.
Steam User 19
Overally good game, aiming system is a little bit strange at the beggining but when you get used to it, you can have a lot of fun playing this title. Some of the dialogs are kind of annoying and too long, but gameplay and visuals compensate that. What I really like is the speed - you don't have time to get bored. I am not a pro player, so I also found this game kind of challenging.
To sum up - nice shooter to unwind for a while after work.
Steam User 13
Ok, my word on Star Horizon.
Casual Space Shooter on Rails with cool features like ship to upgrade and few decidions to be made. Controls are strange at the beginning, but are enjoyable when you get used to them (Honestly, I don't see other way to handle aiming). Star Horizon is a fun way to spend some time during a work or study break. I can honestly recommend it to all casual players. Go and have some fun with it!
Steam User 7
A solid Star Fox style casual game, worth the price.
The audiovisuals are really well done and create a good sense of action. Balancing is worth a mention - Normal difficulty has some challenges, but not too frustrating, while Hard makes you constantly fight for your life. It's rare to see that nowadays.
The main problem is the aiming - Star Horizon forgoes having a reticle in favor of visually lining up your ship with your target. It generally works well and doesn't get in the way. But:
it's underexplained, which means you have to figure out this quite counterintuitive idea by yourself
it breaks the immersion - it depends on how you look at the scene from the third person perspective, reminding you that you don't actually pilot the ship
you obscure the target with your ship, so if it shoots back at you, you won't see that
There are also some decisions to be made during flight, which makes for a nice touch of variety, and a simple customization system which goes well with the complexity level of the game.
Once you grasp the aiming, you will be having some solid fun.