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Gaslamp Games (Dungeons of Dredmor) points out the Alpha release of Starfarer, an indie "single-player sandbox style space role-playing game with strategic elements" from Fractal Softworks. Preordering gets you access to the Alpha (currently v0.33) and a 50% discount, making the price $10. They plan to use a Mount & Blade style increasing price as the development gets closer to release. Apparently Gaslamp provided the art (no big eyebrows this time), so it looks quite nice for an indie. The feature list:
- Single player, gritty, dystopian sci-fi setting
- Classic top down gameplay style enhanced by modern technology
- Unique character development system – advance your story, your way
- Assemble a large, powerful fleet or a finely-tuned task force with hand-picked officers and crew
- Outfit hulls with your weapons of choice, and add ship systems to create crushing tactical combinations
- Explore hundreds of star systems to find habitable worlds, rich resource deposits, and advanced alien technology
- Impact the inter-stellar economy with your decisions – decide the fate of entire planetary systems
- Fight to bring stability and prosperity to the sector – or watch it burn while you take advantage of the chaos
- Runs on Linux, Mac, and Windows