PULSAR: Lost Colony
The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits
PULSAR: Lost Colony is a space sim, open world and simulation game
developed and published by Leafy Games.
Released on June 22nd 2021 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 5,464 reviews of which 4,921 were positive and 543 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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Requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000 (Shader Model 3)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
- Additional Notes: Modern Graphics Card Required (Supported By Manufacturer)
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.7
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000 (Shader Model 3)
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Modern Graphics Card Required (Supported By Manufacturer)
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit)
- Processor: 2 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 5000 (Shader Model 3)
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Modern Graphics Card Required (Supported By Manufacturer)
Reviews
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Pulsar is not perfect, but the ship combat and boarding and maintaining all the ship's systems, that's amazing! The main quests are all really good! The only problem is that exploring the galaxy isn't very rewarding. If you go to a random planet, or you pick up a random side quest, it won't be satisfying. All of the random planets are just one settlement, a handful of bad guys and an item that you're supposed to find for a handful of credits. While it's not perfect, Pulsar has provided me with a lot of fun playing with friends. This game is also terrible to play alone as the AI is finickey. Have a full crew of humans if you can. You can survive with one bot, but the bots get exceedingly frustrating to micromanage the more of them you have.
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When my friends and I first discovered this game, we were quite excited to fly around in space together in VR. Unfortunately, while we did have quite a bit of fun flying a spaceship together, we didn't get the polished experience we were hoping for, as this game has quite a few design issues and a multitude of bugs that really put a damper on our hopes for an exciting sci-fi adventure. We still had a fun time for the most part, and I'd still recommend this game for some people, but it definitely isn't for everyone. The story in this game is neat, with detailed and interesting lore, but it could be presented a lot better. There's no voice acting or even custom animations for talking in this game. Instead, when you talk to an NPC, you're presented with a floating window with text. There's quite a bit of dialog required to progress through the main quests as well, and you're often presented with long paragraphs of text to read through. This is even worse in VR, as text is anchored to the person you're talking to and is fairly small, making it even harder to read. This made it pretty hard to get immersed the story, which was disappointing, because it seemed like a lot of effort went into writing an intriguing narrative. The gameplay is definitely at it's best when you're flying through space yelling at your friends as you try to destroy an enemy ship while dodging fire and trying to keep your own ship from falling apart. The game gives you one of 5 roles to select from (captain, pilot, scientist, weapons expert, or engineer), and each role is better at certain tasks than others, with some stations requiring perks that only certain roles have. This requires you to use quite a bit of teamwork when you're in combat, as there's quite a bit going on and many tasks require information from other places on the ship (for example, the pilot usually can only see directly in front of the ship). For this reason, you'll likely want friends to play it with, or at least other people online, as the AI did not seem very good (although we didn't use it much). It is pretty hard to learn though, with tons of different stations and menus which each have their own function that often isn't explained well. There is a tutorial, but it isn't good, with way to much written information and not nearly enough opportunities to see or practice how certain things will work (with some areas of the tutorial completely locked off if you play the tutorial in VR). Over time you eventually learn how certain things work, especially once you've chosen your role and only focus on your responsibilities, but it still takes quite a while before you feel like you can confidently fly the ship. The gameplay when you're not on your ship is significantly worse. Many of the areas you visit have enormous amounts of empty space and are filled with bland NPCs with little to say. It gets a bit more exciting when you get into combat, but the overheating mechanic means you can rarely shoot more than a handful of times before you're forced to cower and wait for your gun to recharge, which makes combat feel like a chore (the guns on the ship work like this as well, but at least you can switch guns or do other things while they're on cooldown). Enemies also often don't make any sounds, so expect to get hurt or killed unexpectedly by an enemy you didn't see. It slows down even more when you reach a dangerous planet and are forced to don an exosuit, which makes you even slower. Some of the areas we explored on foot were cool, but for the most part this area of the game pales in comparison to the time spent on your ship. This game runs extremely poorly and has an extraordinarily large number of bugs. We encountered dozens of issues, ranging from minor annoyances to game-breaking issues, including: [*] The lights in the ship inexplicably turning on or off. [*] Changing options on some screens affecting other players inexplicably. [*] Enemy information showing up even though they're nowhere close to within range. [*] The dice for Liar's Dice showing up right in front of the camera making them impossible to read. [*] The customization menu appearing miles away when opened. [*] The keyboard randomly appearing on screen. [*] Menus being impossible to use while inside guns, as they seem to be fixed in space and rapidly fly away from you. [*] Characters randomly starting to lose height until the camera is barely above the ground. [*] The output from scanners randomly rotating in space any time you sprint, making it impossible to read or use. [*] Scrap and upgrades in the ship inventory randomly being impossible to interact with. [*] Saving the game not always saving everything consistently (which was an issue particularly in the final fight of the Unseen Threat campaign, where saving would save upgrades, scrap, coolant, health, etc., but would respawn all the enemies that were previously killed). [*] The final boss of the main campaign completely breaking the game if you lose and then load the autosave (sometimes the warp effect would show up on screen and your vision would be doubled, sometimes the boss wouldn't move and it would be impossible to interact with anything, sometimes the boss would fly towards you and instantly destroy your ship, and sometimes it wouldn't even load the boss fight at all). We were forced to reload an earlier save every time we lost. Although my friends and I managed to get through each of the main campaigns and had a fun time overall, it was rough at times, and you won't have a fun time if you aren't prepared to encounter issues like this sometimes. Note that most of my time playing this game was in VR. I did play on desktop briefly, and I noticed that many of the issues I encountered while in VR didn't occur on desktop, and things generally felt more smooth and less clunky. However, the desktop experience just wasn't the same for me, as the main draw of the game for me was the immersive VR experience of being in space. As such, I still recommend playing this game in VR despite how clunky and buggy it makes the experience, as the feeling of flying through space in VR is worth it. Those that are looking for a simpler, more stable experience (or just don't have VR) will likely want to stick with desktop though. TL;DR This fun spacefaring RPG allows you to fly a spaceship with your friends and has some fun gameplay and a really neat VR experience, but the story is presented almost exclusively in long paragraphs of text, it has a wicked learning curve, combat when outside of the ship isn't great, many areas are empty and bland, the game runs poorly, and it has an extraordinary amount of bugs, including some game-breaking ones. While my friends and I had fun playing through the game, I'd only recommend this for people looking for a neat space experience to play in VR with friends, and only if you're willing to tolerate a very unpolished experience to get those incredible fleeting moments where you forget that you're not actually flying through space.
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How to improve the game, open up the fucking workshop and let people develop ships and missions it is that easy
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Need to lower price for the game i just don't feel there is enough content for the price i would recommend to my friends if game was a little more polished with a bit more content if y'all would drop the price to ten USD i feel like this game could blow up.I would probably even buy a few copy's for my friends.
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The epitome of diamond in the rough. If you can look past the graphics and occasional janky mechanic, this is some of the best co-op action you'll play.
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Online players
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Developer
Leafy Games
Publisher
Leafy Games
Release
22 Jun 2021
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