Does this game have sound effects?

Never completed it myself, but this is a good game. Recommend it wholeheartedly.

Wow, I'll definitely be picking up the iOS version this is great, I loved the PC version.

Hi. Thanks so much for sharing. Could someone please give us a little more detail on the game? How long is the game from start to finish? Many of these sorts of games are only an hour long, and so I am hesitant to pay $10 if this is the case. Does the game have combat?  Is the game like an open ended endless procedurally generated sandbox? Thanks.

Okay I'll try and explain a bit about the game.

An interstellar gate has been discovered. The game involves taking a spaceship through the gate to investigate different star systems, with the ultimate goal to find out about the alien civilization who made the gate.

Between trips you can recruit different crew members with different specialities, and upgrade your ship to either collect more data, withstand more damage, or be able to scan through the gate for more lucrative systems to visit.
Your crew also gain experience, assuming they survive the misadventures too.

Each system you visit is made up of a large number of interstellar objects, stars, asteroids, planetoids, gas giants etc, all of which can be visited and investigated if you have the fuel. Investigations involve things like sending your crew to check out alien ruins or take readings or spacewalk, meaning you need to think hard about your crew's capabilities. You can also suffer disasters, either miner or major such as tech failures, your crew getting diseases etc.
Since you can only have a limited crew on board your ship, this means a lot of calculated risk and decision making, particularly since the interstellar gate will only stand so many trips meaning your always on a time limit.

All! of this, from the descriptions of the planetary bodies, to the disasters you suffer, to the names and specialities of the crew you can recruit is randomly generated, indeed the amount of random text and random events in the game is truly staggering! So I wouldn't worry about replayability, since even if you do! manage to find a working strategy with the crew and resources you have, you never know what you're going to come up against.

As well as being randomly generated, the game is also beautifully written, indeed I'm not surprised that this is the same dev as seedship, since it has many of the same thought processes and sense of space behind it.

I admit, its a difficult game, and not one I've spent as much time with as I should, since things are pretty tense, and there are lots of factors to deal with, but anyone who is interested in big, scifi concepts, and really going out to explore strange new worlds should definitely give this a try.

Db page will hopefully be coming soon.

At dark as always very informative descriptions.

Well it can take as short as 20 minutes, to as long as 6 hours, maybe several days.
I once got it down where I had 99.9% of the core upgrades listed pluss several optional found upgrades and just needed the final but crucial upgrades before I ran out of time.
The game took me over 3 days to reach that point with me alotting time to play it so 5 hours a session and about 15 hours in all slogging away on it.
Being I am a trekite its refreshing I can be captain x on my trusty starship trying tobe a good starfleet offficer from the comfort of my cumfy desk chair.
Or at the dining room of my aunt's place with the well stocked fridge.
I'd imagine if I was in the bar on ds9 or in the holodecks either on that station or on any mission this would be something that I'd do on my downtime it may even be training material for studdy so yeah.
I take this game as a holodeck simulation so yeah if I can live the life like that well good.
I also like the hybrid text/ sound genre of games from this and other twines like trigear and scafold 22 to others like star dew vally which I can play with people or at least which we can relate.
True these aren't real mainstream big titles but I just gave several twines including this to my sighted friend who plays such games.
Another note, for those that want the soundtrack, you can down the brouser version and do that.
Due to how I have my brouser set and such I like to play from the native electron client.
One thing that I especially like is you can't get out of the game window if you go to far you simply can't go any further.
It doesn't loop round but where things like travel are concerned you really don't want it to.

I can never switch the music off. I switch it off enough for a second it starts again. I read downloaded the game and the same thing happens. Anyone else experienced this?

Can't wait ot try this update.

you should just use the web version, either windows or mac, works fine.

If you bought the iOS version do you get to played for free on the web version?