In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew - the last remnants of humanity. Your choices will determine their fate, and your own.
Mixed
60 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | Y | Y | Y |
This game is a bit more like an interactive novel than a fully interactive game, but I really love what they've done with it. The story is very engaging and stays with you after you played it. It reminded me a bit of In Other Waters.
Juego de micromanagement espacial, aburrido realmente, es una mezcla de novela y ogame. Tiene logros y CROMOS como lo mas valioso.
Fun Fact: Lo compre y a los 10 dias se hizo free to play
2/10 - Salvo que el workshop te sirva y seas fan del genero, segui de largo
Only 2 resources you need to live, but 700 ways they'll make you suffer for trying to get it
нет
I have the regret of not reviewing this game sooner, so more people might take a look at it. Having intentions to play a game doesn't mean you are necessarily able to until things line up in your life, and I have to say this is one of the most engrossing 'hard choice' games I've played, while also relaxing every part of my mind.
I'm not entirely sure how much of the rich text there is before it repeats, but the challenge of not running out of Food and Fuel while hunting for a new planetary home for the very last interstellar ship out of several dozen (so your design is technically the best design) to depart dying Earth, while being the character of the nominally benevolent yet absolutely pragmatic AI that is trying to keep your crew alive while knowing how dangerous space exploration is, and that there are moral choices to make to keep a mission going, make it a difficult game to put down, like a good book. Yes, that was a run on sentence. Sorry about that.
The science fiction is strong, it's definitely some of the best writing I've read in the category and that you're making the choices as things go along.
It's as brutal as FTL while not trying to be FTL in the slightest. The writers are a source of envy on my part, if I could write as well as them, I would not stop. To me they're as good as the writers of Fallen London/Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies.
I think this is a thank you to the developer as much as it is a positive review.
This is a really underapreciated experience that I fully recommend all fans of "CYOA" books to try. There are gameplay elements but the game is mainly about making choices and seeing the exciting results. Highly recommended!
This was a fun little game that I enjoyed dropping a handful of hours on. Name your crew mates after your friends and family for added entertainment. Pretty much all of the game is stored in easy to manipulate JSON files as an added bonus, so with some minor programming knowledge you can tweak your experience even further.
I'm enjoying this game so much!!
The dialogues and stories are so well written and often hilarious. Here are some memorable things that I loved:
I have a comedian in my crew who often cracks me up, even in the most tense of situations. One of my crew members is so competitive that he decided to jump over the others during an EVA to be on the lead, and you can imagine how that turned out. I almost resort to cannibalism after running out of food, but my engineer found a way to "eat the ship"... I indulged a robot on the recreation of their history as a Shakespeare play...
It's full of amazing and fun moments, each character feels really different and can surprise you. It's like a really good novel you get lost in, but you are driving.
Boring...
что б меня да кто в это убожество вообще может играть?
Its not a game, its not filled with any meaningful or logical choices, I guess kind of a choose your own adventure without any sense or meaning or originality behind any of it?
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The earth is 4.6 billion years old and we managed to exist at the same time as this masterpiece.
The Away Team is a fine example of what game developers should do. Aside from the game, I first want to mention that the developers are hard at work and are still pumping out new bugfixes and updates.
The game itself is simple enough. You travel through space with a crew of "last survivors" from a destroyed and polluted Earth. The game first makes you choose the characters, and their perks, then you're on you're way to space. There is no set path, and no word from the ships that set out before you. Eventually you must find clues that lead to the overall story of what happened to the other ships, and your ultimate goal is to find a habitable planet for your survivors. During missions, you also have to make hard choices, and may have to sacrifice one member of the group to save the others.
As you can probably see from other reviews, the missions are entirely text based. In my opinion, this is a fantastic concept, since you are simply an AI that control the ship with your mission directive. Overall, this is a great game to play.
영어가 어렵지만 흥미롭고 재밌습니다. 스토리도 흥미롭고 볼륨도 꽤 큽니다.
I would not play this game on pc, it is fine to play on my phone, but it's too static for me to played on a pc, where I expect other things.
---No lo jugaria en mi pc, solo en movil, no me aporta demasiado
Absolute joy to play. Now, a few brief notes for those considering a purchase.
1. I read FAST. 600 pages in a day is nothing for me.
2. Simplistic game play, but a lot of reading and a very good 'exploration' feel to it.
3. Choices are typically obscured, and sometimes it's pretty irritating how stupid humans act.
4. I love my stupid humans, enjoy the game.
Looked interesting, but crashed with errors before I even finished making my team to play with. : (
The quality of the writing in this game is really stunning, and the stories are so imaginative! I was stunned by not only how fleshed out and well paced it was, but also how many different choices it presented in the story sequences, and how crew members traits sometimes played into outcomes etc. This is a real gem, pick it up!
An interactive novel where choices actually matter as more than just flavor text. It's great, and gets semi-regular updates with QoL changes, new graphics, workshop support (was not intended originally), changes to existing missions, and even occasionally new missions. It's worth playing through multiple times to pick different characters for your crew and to use different characters on missions, as some will have unique choices/dialogue in certain spots.
Devs are active in replying to discussion topics even though they're busy with other things, one of them was even hired at InXile but still works on this game. Most games would've been declared finished by now and be left as-is but almost 3 years later this is still getting updates.
What a little gem this game is. Basically it's a chose your own adventure with some pixel graphic sprayed on the top. The graphic part is not necessary but the developer gets extra pint for the effort. But what an exciting story! Although not strictly a hard SF is goes close to classic SF books, at time shamelessly borrowing ideas from those. Had a nostalgia trip playing this. Will definitely play again to try different choices.
good game
Don't be fooled by its simple, rétro appearance and pixel graphics: this is a real hidden gem, with very solid writing and an interesting plot that will keep you playing, solar system after solar system, gameplay minutes turning into hours, wondering what will happen next, both to you and to your crew members.
The game has a lot in common with choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks (when your humans explore planets, you'll have to help them decide what they'll do, pulling a lever, exploring a certain zone, being friendly or hostile, and different choices of course mean different consequences), but adds to it a simple but effective simulation part (you have to carefully manage your fuel and food reserves, and find more if you deplete one or the other) and a deeply interesting crew member personality system, which adds a ton of replayability: a strong farmer will act, speak and perform differently than a genial but disabled scientist.
Crewmembers traits have a big influence on the way events unfold, and more than once you'll wonder "...what would've happened if I had brought the other guy instead of this one?". You'll play the game more than once to check all possible differences... plus, you can also create your own custom characters!
Add to this some really nice, helpful developers. They'll add new stuff over time, and will always be there for you if you have some problem with the game, or even if you're curious about something you've met in the game.
If you like reading, science fiction, or choose-your-own-adventure books, this is the game for you. Get it, you won't regret it!
This game is ambitious, has excellent writing, and comes from an excellent team. This is one to watch for sure!
The art assets and even the whole story of this game are readily editable. Had some fun with that, at least.
Não sei se é bom so ganhei as cartinhas e deletei da conta!
Obs: Para ganhar cartinhas é bom sim!!!
A fun little game with some great writing. It takes a little while to discover what the traits do in regards to what happens on missions and how the size of the the away team effects outcomes. It is quite fun to see what results, even if it ends with one or more crew memebers dying.
One thing to remember is that there is no reall downside to losing so to get the most out of the game I recommend making some "dumb" decisions, like sending down all the people that would be horrible at public relations. This way you get the most out of the writing because I have missed things by alwys picking the same options.
This game has some bugs and could be tweaked more here and there, but what really stands out for me is a story. So I took it more as a sci-fi novel with some choices in-between. If you like the sci-fi and Lovecraft-ish stories, you might like this one as well.
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Very nice game
The game has no screen resolution option and picked a weird resolution, so I had to change the resolution for everything to be able to play. It has a save button but it doesn't seem to do a lot since there's no load button. I guess it's supposed to be a game about choice, since there's little else you can do, but the choices seem to help very little and often have to be made with little information. All in all, something I decided to take a risk on during a sale while it cost 90% less but even at that price it's not for me, I don't recommend it.
Awesomely well written choose-your-own-adventure sci-fi story about the end and a possible new beginning of the human race in an episodic format with a general arc in Star Trek style.
+ atmospheric
+ well written
+ interesting characters
- repetitive gameplay when moving from planet to planet
- game pretty much entirely occurs through text, which is alright but some more art would have been nice
An enjoyable interactive fiction Sci-fi game with a great story. I highly reccomend it for anyone who would like any part of that sentence.
The away team is one of the coolest games I've been able to play. It is based on the idea that you are an Ai that is tasked with protecting a small number of humans after the destruction of earth. I had a very good time with the game, but recommend that if you're looking into it, buy it on sale.
Pros:
- Interesting story with about four endings to be had.
- Entertaining and descriptive writing, that makes you feel invested in the characters and thier story
- Interesting character traits that factor into gameplay, often changing outcomes
- Entertaining puzzles and mind games
Cons:
- Very heavy reading (I would personally consider this a pro, but some don't)
- Some choices seemed forced or very meaningless [spoiler] the hunger scenarios seemed very forced, you could almost always use a alternative with seemingly no negative action. I felt like I could use cryogenic sleep for the crew with no drawbacks, for example. [/spoiler]
- The space travel with the ship seems kind of meaningless and doesn't serve too much of a purpose
- Crew can die a lot in the later difficulties
Ultimately whether you enjoy this game or not is entirely dependant on whether you like an interactive novel style game. Personally I'd recommend playing on easy or normal, so crew doesn't die as much. The crew really does open up a lot of scenarios that may not happen if they weren't there. Overall, great game in my opinion.
I have been busy and havn't been gaming latly but this game caught my eye. I play about 20 mins and i am in love with it. I just need to find the time to play it. If you like quirky scifi text humor and interesting story and a cool world to explore buy it.
Текстовая игра, про освоение космоса.
Если есть знания инглиша, то несколько часов убить можно.
Nope ...
Игра представляет собой текстовую новеллу про покорение космоса выдержанную в олдскульном пиксельном стиле.
Для русскоязычной аудитории практически не играбельно, так как даже с базовым английским нормального погружения в эту игру с большими массивами текста не получится.
Для тех же кто свободно читает, а может даже думает на этом языке, очень даже неплохая игра.
怀旧风格的游戏
星际探险，需要保证食物以及燃料
到各个星体上面搜集物资，应对各种突发状况，让队员升级
个人还是比较欣赏的，只是英文水平有限
good game
Nedodělaná hra........
One of the best IF games I've played so far. The best part was the robot shakespear. You can tell a llot of focus went into the choices. A very dark game.
I Definitely would recomend this game; especially as i got it on sale for 1.50. Loads of hidden sci fi references and an enjoyable cynicism to it. I especially enjoy the fatal endings; always reminding how even one stupid decision gets everyone killed.
[spoiler] Somehow i think the game ended up reading me as much as i read it; as i was able to organize a planetary invasion as an ending XD [/spoiler] Either way, with multiple endings definitely worth a sale price.
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Игра представляет собой текстовую новеллу про покорение космоса выдержанную в олдскульном пиксельном стиле.
Для русскоязычной аудитории практически не играбельно, так как даже с базовым английским нормального погружения в эту игру с большими массивами текста не получится.
Для тех же кто свободно читает, а может даже думает на этом языке, очень даже неплохая игра.
See My Review Video Below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBrl5AYzlDg
The Away Team is a interactive sci-fi adventure novel in which you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship, tasked with finding a home for your crew.
The gameplay is relatively simple in design, when beginning a new game you select a crew from a list of possible members each with their own set of careers, skills and personality which establishes your available team for the rest of the game.
The game then moves into the space exploration and resource management, in many cases there is only a single planet to select from which appears random on the small area of space that is traversable, it is here that fuel and food come into play as the ship moves to a world or to the edge of the map to light speed travel. Both tick down slowly fuel from movement and food in real time to add a sense of urgancy, as the game does not reveal this fact it comes across as more of an annoyance.
Once at a planet or station of interest the core mechanic of the game the away missions begin, from here you must select up to six people to send on a mission to investigate and search for resources, interacting with self contained stories on each world though in rare cases information gleamed on one world can aid choices on another.
[h1]TLDW: [/h1]
[b]Pros: [/b]
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[*]Attractive visual and music, solid art design as a whole gives the game an retro science fiction atmosphere.
[*]Written encounters of a high quality containing very few typos or mistakes and a pleasure to read, can find yourself getting attached to certain crew members over time even if interaction with them is somewhat shallow to ensure that encounters are viable for whatever crew you select.
[*]Over 30 worlds and stations to explore resulting in over 700 choices.
[*]Game is friendly to modders and C++ programers with the developers now writing simple to understand how to guides.
[*]Developers interact with the community.
[*]Steam Cards and Achievements.
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[b]Cons:[/b]
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[*]Limited technical options for resolution and other related visuals (this may be seen as a plus by those wishing simple setup).
[*]Heavily text based which is off putting for some and the lack of art and relatively small text size can be hard on the eyes. In addition I was unable to scroll back to previous text though that may be an issue with just my own setup.
[*]Typical adventure game book problems regarding replayability, not all choices give alternative responses but instead tick internal flags within the program. This may cause players to think that a choice doesn't matter.
[*]Occasionally characters die to seeingly random bad luck or chance. Due to the unforgiving nature and chances of sudden death it makes a player less likely to experiement with alternative options.
[*]Rare moments of instability with crashes on Away missions.
[*]Only 4 endings that can be considered a "Success" in game, for example in one run where the crew were delivered safely but myself as the AI willingly self terminated my mission completed this was considered a failure.
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Final verdict: I have had quite a bit of fun with the game but it does feel a tad overpriced and I predict replayability issues, however if the community gets behind this then the possibility for additional stories and developments through writting and modding can add a great deal of further life to this well written adventure
If you like adventure game books and the concept then grab it in a bundle or on sale when you can.
Edit: Removed Typos
tl:dr: The store page is very honest about what this is. I strongly recommend reading all of it, because the excerpt in particular is very honest about what a lot of this game is. If you're intrigued by that, you'll probably love this. If you're unsure, you probably won't.
Your mileage with this one will depend entirely on whether text-only exploration in a choose your own adventure-style game is enough for you. The gameplay basically comes down to resource management and crew selection, but neither of these would be deep enough to sustain the game on their own. Look elsewhere if they're requirements for you.
Steam's suggestions for The Away Team are, for once, pretty accurate. Its world building and depth of scenarios is comparable to 80 Days. The investigation of failed societies and focus on generation ships is similar to Analogue: A Hate Story. The branching paths have a lot in common with Sorcery and assorted Choice Of games, although in this case the stats and traits are associated with your crew members rather than yourself.
I'm reluctant to say any more because the value of this game is really in the discovery. Suffice to say that you're looking at solid writing (albeit with noticeable typos), creative scenarios, and impressively detailed character personalities and interactions for what it is. You're not going to remember them in ten years, but they've got actual traits, motivations, and consistent behaviors, which is more than you can say for most redshirt analogues. Easy thumbs up.
I like The Away Team in concept. You choose from amongst a list of crew each with their own set of skills and personality quirks and send them towards a series of planets, interacting with some self contained stories on each. Your decisions and the crew specifics point you towards different outcomes.
Unfortunately, it's a shallow experience. You pretty much either end up getting some fuel, food, or both, and maybe a vague ship upgrade and occasionally an extra crew member. Sometimes some of your crew dies, but it mostly comes down to luck between which random option you select. There isn't much game here, and the text gets very drawn out. Given that it has to be flexible enough to handle random crew and visits to planets in random order, there isn't any sense of importance or permanance to it. It just ends up becoming a long delay before you learn whether you got some food or some fuel.
I also had it crash on me some to the point that it screwed up my install and then had to disable my antivirus program temporarily in order to get it to reinstall properly.
Again, it's neat in theory, and the pixel crew and soundtrack are a nice touch, but unless you're really into text heavy space exploration, I can't see why you'd want to spend time or $10 on this.
Jogo Legalzin pra passa o tempo
An interesting enough story, but not as interactive as I was hoping. Don't be fooled by the screencaps, you will be spending 99% of your time reading neon green letters. Comfortable chair highly recommended.
"The Away Team" offered a very intriguing and intelligent story, as you would expect from a sci-fi it delivers a truly supernatural vibe and a true sense of worry for the safety of the crew (Even though I've killed a few for resources....I TRIED NOT TO IT WAS HARD!). I give the game a 8/10. The mark-down is due only because it was really really really wordy (I do not recommend for light readers, the wordiness did give the game a more in-depth story and imagery though) and the fact that I had little will power to get another ending after I finished it the first time, I had tried a bit for an extra ending BUUUUUUUT after 1hr I gave up. I higly recommend "The Away Team" to any heavy reader and fellow sci-fi fans (I'm a sci-fi fan just not too much of a fanatic about them) out there.
Not a bad game, just doesn't capture my attention. As a kid, I thoroughly enjoyed choose your own adventure books. I was hoping to recapture some of the same enjoyment with The Away Team and hoped it would be good for killing short bursts of time.
For me, I had difficulty with engrossing myself in the story. Ultimately, the success of the game hinges on the story and I just couldn't get into it. The text contained errors which occassionally broke immersion. The universe seemed rather empty. Even when discovering a planet covered in city like structures, no beings were there upon landing. I didn't understand the reasoning for this. If the story explained it, I missed it.
On top of this, I encountered at least one glitch that seemed to eliminate what progress I had made on the planet.
Ultimately, I don't have much desire to continue playing this to see if it gets better when I have so many other AAA and indie titles in my backlog.
This game is a marvelous piece of storytelling that kept me engaged to the very end.
It's the future. The Earth is permanently screwed. You are the AI on one of the last cryo ships to leave the planet in search of a new home for the humans in your care. Your decisions are what will ultimately decide their fate.
The game plays like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel, and feels like you're directing your own episodes of Star Trek. With each new planet you discover, you must weigh the risks of exploration. Food and fuel are constantly being depleted, so will you push your away teams to dig deeper into alien territory and potentially stay ahead of the game, but risk losing some of them, or will you decide that the risk is too great, and potentially put them in danger of starving to death? Will you judge situations with blind optimism, with fairness, with caution, or with an aggressive iron fist?
In any case, your decisions will most certainly have consequences, but you must weather them in order to achieve the ultimate goal; finding your human crew a place to hang their hats.
If heavy reading is not your thing, you probably won't enjoy this game very much. However, if you like things that are intensely story-rich, then this should be right up your alley. You'll be reading a lot of text, making choices, and deciding which crew to send where based on their strengths and weaknesses. Some crewmembers are better in certain situations than others, so choose carefully.
The stories were varied, from humorous to ominous, and it was easy to imagine most of what was going on in my head. At the very end of my first run, I found myself smiling. It was not only entertaining, but highly satisfying.
A quality hidden gem, in my opinion, and most definitely deserving of a recommendation.
Wow!
The writing is astounding.
The writers are clearly well-versed in sci-fi, and literature more generally.
I recommend changing font to the second option (monofur). It will require a game restart to take effect. The default pixel text hurt my eyes after a short while.
Still some bugs to fix, but devs seem responsive.
Disappointing.
Wanted to like this game but it was too buggy. Locked up my system three times. One of them freezing my entire system and forcing me to do a physical shutdown.
For the love of god, play this game. If you're any kind of sci-fi fan, you owe it to yourself.
What I thought I was getting: Deep Space Nine. What I actually got: Rendezvous with Rama.
I'm not a very "I" AI
THE AWAY TEAM LOG
DAY 1, FIRST PLANET
- to solve food crisis, land on a unknown planet
- spilt up and investigated near areas of the strange "x" mark on the surface
- head count and only mechanic on the ship was missing
- team leader said we need to move on and explore further for food
- found a safer surface to land on but turned out to be a moving platform of soils
- shuttle strut snapped in half and the shuttle was half-buried uderground
- running out of food & water, cannibalism was the way out
- end of mission
The best & shortest space voyage ever had
11/10 would see more tragic & unexpecting ends
Essentially a collection of vignettes, governed by your team member choices and a bit of luck. Pretty cool overall and worth picking up, although it is a little short. Some of the vignettes go into a surprising amount of depth and all are polished and well written.
When you first boot up this game, you'll think that the music is trying to evoke Mass Effect. Then when you start playing, you'll realize that this is the kind of game Mass Effect was trying to evoke. It's part FTL and part A Mind Forever Voyaging. VERY text heavy, very well-written, and if that's your thing, you'll be in heaven. It really nails the look, feel, and gameplay of those early story-heavy games from back when people hadn't quite decided what story-heavy games were yet.
Plus, you're a snarky ship's computer.
