History VideoGame / Astroneer

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: The building system is modular in nature, allowing you to build bases and rovers in any shape and purpose you want. Rovers can range from mobile generators, excavators, {{Drill Tank}}s, material and/or personnel transports, salvage shredders, tow trucks, high speed rocket cars or even massive a BaseOnWheels land-train.

* ButThouMust: In the crash caused by the astroid belt in the tutorial, the built-in oxygen tank in the player's backpack is smashed open and leaking oxygen. This forces the player to loot another dead astroneer's backpack to replace it, as otherwise, the player has no ability to survive for any length of time away from an oxygen source.

''[[https://astroneer.space Astroneer]]'' is a SurvivalSandbox exploration game from System Era Softworks, currently available for Windows [=PCs=] and [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne pXbox One]]. The player (or players) takes on the role of an "[[TitleDrop astroneer]]" in the 25th century, hired by a mining conglomerate to explore and exploit various planets.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen: A common occurrence when you stray too far from a supply source. Your backpack contains around 70 seconds of air on its own, and visual cues will warn you when you reach 50%, 25% and near empty. Once the suffocation warning pops up, you have around ten more seconds to reach a source before you expire.

* BaseOnWheels: One of the updates made it possible to place building modules on rovers. A train of 2-3 large rovers can carry a medium sized, fully functioning base.

* NoRecycling: Averted most objects (and some of the found debris) can be shredded into scrap and exchanged for resources.

* PlugNPlayTechnology: Absolute majority of base modules can work both on a regular base and on a vehicle. Small ones can also work when plugged into your backpack. And somehow, giant alien teleporters use compatible sockets as well!

* ResourcesManagementGameplay: The player will die after running after oxygen, but bases and vehicles contain an infinite supply that extends to the range of a tether network. All base modules and vehicles require both a variety of materials to be built, and a steady supply of power or fuel to operate. (There are modules that can be used to more easily obtain or replace materials not easily available.)

* PowerGlows: Soft yellow for powered platforms, bright pink for alien structures.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: The building system is modular in nature, allowing you to build bases and rovers in any shape and purpose you want. Rovers can range from mobile batteries, excavators, material and/or personal transports, salvage shredders, high speed rocket cars or even massive BaseOnWheels land-trains.
* DiegeticInterface: Aside from the main menu, escape menu, tutorial tasks and the item labels, meters and indicators arediegetic and any interactions with Astroneer backpacks or base devices float directly in front of your camera.

''[[https://astroneer.space Astroneer]]'' is a SurvivalSandbox exploration game from System Era Softworks, currently available for Windows [=PCs=] and [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne Xbox One]]. The player (or players) takes on the role of an "[[TitleDrop astroneer]]" in the 25th century, hired by a mining conglomerate to explore and exploit various planets.

* DiegeticInterface: Aside from the main menu, escape menu, tutorial tasks and the item labels, meters and indicators are diegetic and any interactions with Astroneer backpacks or base devices float directly in front of your camera.

* DiegeticInterface: Aside from the main menu, escape menu, and the tutorial tasks, every UI element in the game is either a holographic label or a physical panel with a screen and buttons that float in front of your camera when accessed.

* TeleportersAndTransporters and PortalNetwork: alien portals can be found on equator and poles of each planet. [[spoiler:Plus one more at the core of each, and a nexus that ties them together.]]

* EverythingIsBetterWithSpinning: If it spins, it's working.

* [[spoiler:AfterTheEnd]]: [[spoiler: And also an aversion of AbsentAliens. The entire Astroneer system is based around a network of buried teleporters. Every planet is secretly artificial, with all of them connected by derelict alien teleporters to a satellite far off in space. The planets are all abandoned by their alien builders.]]

* BaseOnWheels: one of the updates made it possible to place building modules on rovers. A train of 2-3 large rovers can carry a medium sized, fully functioning base.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen: A common occurrence when you stray too far from a supply source. Your backpack contains around 70 seconds of air on its own, and visual cues will warn you when you reach 50%, 25% and near empty. Once the suffocation warning pops up, you have around ten more seconds to reach a source or harvest oxygen-bearing rock before you expire.

* DiegeticInterface: Aside from the main menu, escape menu, and the tutorial tasks, everything in the game is either a holographic label or a physical panel with a screen and buttons that float in front of your camera when accessed.

The game went on sale on Steam and XBox One in January of 2019 with a radically overhauled interplanetary flight system and a bare-bones plot progression mechanic, although there is still no dialogue or narration in the game.

* TechnoWreckage: it used to be possible to find a destroyed base, much like yours. As disheartening as it is, it always contained something useful.

While the game was made available for purchase on December 16th 2016, Astroneer is in a pre-alpha state.

* TechTree: Players need to research a variety of technologies in order to build vehicles, base modules, or addons for the player's backpack and terraforming tool. Several technologies depend on each other to be effectively used -- for example, shuttles are useless unless players research both a module to manufacture fuel, and a pilot seat (or habitat).

** In addition, the controls are quite unique in that going 'forwards' is determined by where the camera is looking.

* WeaponsThatSuck: While not a weapon per se, the terraforming tool essentially functions as a [[{{Phlebotinum}} phlebotinized]] vacuum.

''[[https://astroneer.space Astroneer]]'' is a sandbox exploration game from System Era Softworks, currently available for Windows [=PCs=] and [[UsefulNotes/XBoxOne Xbox One]]. The player (or players) takes on the role of an "[[TitleDrop astroneer]]" in the 25th century, hired by a mining conglomerate to explore and exploit various planets.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike - Partially averted; none of the planets have a breathable atmosphere, though gravity tends to be close to Earth's.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen - A common occurrence when you stray too far from a supply source. Your backpack contains around 70 seconds of air on its own, and visual cues will warn you when you reach 50%, 25% and near empty. Once the suffocation warning pops up, you have around ten more seconds to reach a source or harvest oxygen-bearing rock before you expire.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist - There's no real penalty for dying other than having to track down your corpse (which is conveniently marked) and retrieve any materials you had on your backpack.
* DisintegratorRay - The terraforming tool's apparent effect on loose soil (though not rocks, certain plants or useful materials)
** This can also be reversed with "raise mode", essentially creating matter out of thin air to fill in holes or build platforms
* DrivesLikeCrazy - Not entirely by choice; the rover physics are a bit...loose.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou - Windstorms hurling rocks and spiky balls, giant worms digging pits and lying in wait, mushrooms that explode or impale you on spikes, carnivorous plants...the galaxy is not a nice place.
* OxygenMeter - Prominently displayed on the backpack.
* SecondaryFire - In addition to its default "vaporize landscape/hoover up useful bits" setting, the terraforming tool can raise ground level or create a flat plane.
* WeaponsThatSuck - While not a weapon per se, the terraforming tool essentially functions as a [[{{Phlebotinum}} phlebotinized]] vacuum.

* OxygenMeter - Prominently displayed on the backpack
* SecondaryFire - In addition to its default "vaporize landscape/hoover up useful bits" setting, the terraforming tool can raise ground level or create a flat plane
* WeaponsThatSuck - While not a weapon per se, the terraforming tool essentially functions as a [[{{Phlebotinum}} phlebotinized]] vacuum
* TheWikiRule - [[http://astroneer.gamepedia.com/Astroneer_Wiki Yep]]

While the game was made avaialble for purchase on December 16th 2016, Astroneer is in a pre-alpha state.

* AlmostOutOfOxygen - A common occurence when you stray too far from a supply source. Your backpack contains around 70 seconds of air on its own, and visual cues will warn you when you reach 50%, 25% and near empty. Once the suffocation warning pops up, you have around ten more seconds to reach a source or harvest oxygen-bearing rock before you expire.
* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist - There's no real penalty for dying other than having to track down your corpse (which is conveniently marked) and retrieve any materials you had on your backpack

* DisintegratorRay - The terraforming tool's apparent effect on loose soil (though not rocks, plants or useful materials)