History VideoGame / ColonyShip

The game's setting is a GenerationShip headed towards Proxima Centauri. In its long voyage, the ship has become a very troubled place, as its inhabitants know they will live their entire lives without ever seeing Proxima Centauri, nor do they feel any connection to the (now long dead) people of Earth who built the ship in the first place. Factions have arisen, each with their own answers to the seeming pointlessness of their existence, and their infighting continues to threaten the ship.
You are as a struggling passenger trying to make their way in the ships lower deck's. One day you get a job from one of your old colleagues and soon discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye.

Set on a {{Colony Ship}} headed towards Proxima Centauri, you play as a struggling passenger trying to make their way in the ships lower decks. One day you get a job from one of your old colleagues and soon discover there's more to the ship than meets the eye.

* DeflectorShield: Man sized ones. Currently the player can use three kinds: a vest that blocks all damage until its charge (HP) is used up and gadgets that either add to your total damage resistance until their HP is gone, or reflectors that reduce the accuracy of ranged attacks and shocking melee attackers.

* EarlyGameHell: Weak weapons, outnumbered and limited resources when it comes to fight have them become more like puzzles.

* NintendoHard: The Underdog mode which is recommended by the developers as the default. There's a "Hero mode" that the developers call easy but it's more in line with average difficulty. You're frequently outnumbered by enemies with better skills and more feats or enemies with only few weaknesses. You only gain skill experience from using skills successfully and leveling doesn't give you anything but Feats(which are like Fallout perks with stat requirements).

* SubsystemDamage: With both melee and most ranged weapons you can aim at certain body parts in combat for specific debuffs on the enemy. The head staggers (stacking Evasion debuff), the arms reduce their accuracy, the legs reduce their evasion.

* UsedFuture: By the time the games takes place it's been centuries since the ship initiated its voyage, and it shows. What was the cargo hold is now populated by those who try to escape the reign of the established factions.

* SkillScoresAndPerks: Like ''VideoGame/TheAgeOfDecadence'' and VideoGame/{{Fallout}} before it, the game has a system with skills and feats. You need fulfill certain requirements before you can take a particular feat.

* SkillScoresAndPerks: Like ''VideoGame/TheAgeOfDecadence'' and VideoGame/{{Fallout}} before it, the game has a system with skills and perks.

* TheSixStats: Taking inspiration from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', the game has six stats: Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Perception, Intelligence and Charisma.

* TheSixStats: Taking inspiration from VideoGame/{{Fallout}}, the game has six stats: Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Perception, Intelligence and Charisma.

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: The cost of goods don't increase during the game but the amount of credits you can obtain is severely limited and the resale value of gear scavenged from dead opponents is only worth a tenth of their listed value. There is no way to increase the amount of money you get from selling items but there is a Feat that gives you a 50% discount.

''Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game'' is a {{science fiction}} {{Role Playing Game}} currently being developed by Iron Tower Studio.

The game is still in development but is in early access on Steam and is set to be completed by November 2023.

Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game is a {{science fiction}} {{Role Playing Game}} currently being developed by Iron Tower Studio.

* TakeCover: many fights feature cover in the form of half and full. Standing next an enemy in cover reduces it's effects by half.

* AKA47: Many of the weapons resemble their real life counterparts but are named differently. Notably the Colt Classic(a M1911) along with the Grim Reaper revolver(the Manteba Model 6 Unica)and the Jackhammer shotgun(the Pancor Jackhammer).

* Cyborg: The player character and party members can get implants that improve stats or other benefits, even have them overclocked to improve the effects for an health debuff. Human enemies as well but there is another small society that reside in the ECLSS(Environmental Control and Life Support System) that are more like the Terminator than even a player character with all overclocked implants.

* EnergyWeapons: Rare, best damage per shot for their weapon category but they burn through ammunition like a fire hose(all of them have a usage multiplier for ammunition, even the melee ones).
* DeflectorShield: Man sized ones. Currently the player can use three kinds: a vest that blocks all damage till it's charge(HP) is used up and gadgets that either add to your total damage resistance till their HP is gone or reflectors that reduce the accuracy of ranged attacks and shocking melee attackers.
* DemonicSpiders: Creepers. Giant mutant starfish originally meant to be for pest control on Proxima Alpha, after Hydroponics fell into disrepair after The Mutiny they mutated into apex predators in that part of the ship. With high AP, damage resistance, HP they're hard to kill even with energy weapons. But they can use a long range grapple to pull opponents into melee range and regenerate health every turn on top of getting it back from successful melee attacks. And they have a toxic smokescreen that makes them harder to hit with ranged and melee attacks and poisons anyone in range with low Toxic resistance.
* GenerationShips: The ship is a retrofitted freighter designed to provide for the passengers during the centuries-long voyage.

* Mecha: Come in the man-sized Anti-Riot Robots used to try to quell The Mutiny before the start of the game. You can even find one to repair and bring under your command during the game.
* Mutant: A bunch! Not only are the animals grown in Hydroponics have become large and ferocious enough to attack humans, people exposed to radiation from the engine have over time mutated and even formed their own society in the ships engine called The Heart.

* SentryGun: Come in two flavors; ballistic versions and energy weapon versions with deflector shields.

* SniperPistol: Anyone with high enough Pistol skill, Perception and the right Feats count. Especially when using the Hauser 74 pistol(edit this to link to A.K.A.-47, the pistol resembles a Mauser C96), which has a whopping effective range of 10 tiles(only a few rifles have a range higher than that).
* SubsystemDamage: With both melee and most ranged weapons you can aim at certain body parts in combat for specific debuffs on the enemy. The head staggers(stacking Evasion debuff), the arms reduce their accuracy, the legs reduce their evasion.

* TwentyFourHourArmor: all the gear you put on your characters is visible along with the enemies you'll face. You can get an idea how tough a fight will be by the gear someone wears.

* UsedFuture: By the time the games takes place it's been centuries since the ship initiated it's voyage, and it shows. What was the cargo hold is now populated by those who try to escape the reign of the established factions.

* RandomNumberGod: All attacks are percentage based, with three options for how they're generated:
Heavily Adjusted limits consecutive misses.
Lightly Adjusted makes results drawn like a deck of cards with every one being drawn before reshuffling the deck.
True Randomizer is as it says.
The kicker is all enemies follow this as well.
* ResourcesManagementGameplay: Besides ballistics ammunition and medkits, grenades are in limited supply with only around a dozen to bought across the entire current game. Energy weapon ammunition can be purchased in small quantities as well.

* TrickBomb: Grenades that come in several varieties;
Stasis will freeze those caught in the effect for several turns and then debuff them on end of the duration.
Gas will cover a large area that will poison enemies and debuff their stats and will last for several turns.
Flashbangs will blind opponents in the area and reduce their evasion, to hit chance.
Disruptors will cause Panic, a debuff that causes damage over time and reduce reaction and AP.
Pulse will cause gadgets to shutdown, stun enemies with implants and machines as well.

The game is still in development but is in early access on Steam and is set to be completed by November 2022.

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Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game is developed by IronTower Studio.

->''It is the Year of Our Lord 2754… You will never feel the sun’s warmth under a blue sky, never hear the wind in the branches of a tree, and never swim in the ocean, all because you had the misfortune to be born on the Ship, chained to a fate you didn’t choose. You have never seen Earth and you’ll never see Proxima Centauri either. You’re doomed to live and die on the Ship in the name of the Mission, like your father before you, like his father before him. The Ship is old. She had already been twenty years in service when she was rechristened Starfarer - a pretty name for a retrofitted interplanetary freighter. No one is certain the Ship will actually reach its destination, and nobody much cares, since no one alive now will live to see it. Might as well get on with your life and try to make the best of it."''

-->-- '''Steam introduction'''

It is the Year of Our Lord 2754…

You will never feel the sun’s warmth under a blue sky, never hear the wind in the branches of a tree, and never swim in the ocean, all because you had the misfortune to be born on the Ship, chained to a fate you didn’t choose. You have never seen Earth and you’ll never see Proxima Centauri either. You’re doomed to live and die on the Ship in the name of the Mission, like your father before you, like his father before him.

The Ship is old. She had already been twenty years in service when she was rechristened Starfarer - a pretty name for a retrofitted interplanetary freighter. No one is certain the Ship will actually reach its destination, and nobody much cares, since no one alive now will live to see it. Might as well get on with your life and try to make the best of it.

-Steam introduction

Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game is developed by IronTower Studios.