Asteroid Run

Choice of Games LLC

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About this game

Captain! You have limited resources, a desperate crew, strange cargo and a company man is aboard to spy on you. Will you deliver your secret cargo to the Asteroid Belt on time? You and your crew will get rich or die trying!

"Asteroid Run: No Questions" Asked is a 325,000-word interactive science-fiction novel by Fay Ikin, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Cargo runs between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt are commonplace, but deadly. You're the captain of a merchant vessel, but this time, your contract has a twist: don't open the cargo, don't get in the way of its handler, and don't ask questions. Deliver to Vesta Station.

What kind of captain will you be? Will you get your hands dirty in the engine, be an aspiring scientist, or a master negotiator? Will you focus on the health of your crew or the state of your ship? Will you put your crew in danger to protect the mysterious cargo, or will you join forces with vicious anarchists to fight against corporate wealth and corruption?

• Play as non-binary, female, or male, and find romance—asexual or otherwise—with people of all genders.
• Discover your crew's secrets, or secure their well-being: their lives are in your hands.
• Abandon your position to join forces with the anarchists and their charismatic leader, and even turn double agent.
• Balance your ship's resources, delivering the cargo on time, and your influence with groups in the solar system.
• Get rich being a bootlicker for the law-bringers or the megacorporations, or use their own corruption against them.

Whatever alliances you make, the Big Black is vast and unforgiving, and your corporate guest is watching for any mistakes. You've got six months to Vesta Station: make them count.

Ratings and reviews

This was very good!! I loved managing my crew and the different paths you can take, although some runs can be more disastrous then others. I do wish the stories could be longer though. Some endings felt like they could be the start of a new arc, where I'd love to see how the MC continues off of that, although perhaps I just didn't want the journey to end. Overall very recommend.

Very well-written and tightly plotted, with plenty of mind fuel and replay value. But: it's *engaging.* Found myself staying up far past bedtime, restarting despite wanting to live with the consequences of poor decisions in my first playthrough, making the same bad decisions again anyway. I'll be diving back in soon--it's a hell of a ride. Especially loved the atmosphere of the derelict--somebody knows how to pull off some survival-horror dead-in-space vibes. ;)

This is one of the better games from this company. My main complaint was that at times I felt confused as to why certain actions were raising certain stats, which could be helped by either having detailed descriptions on the stats page for each attribute or just labeling what attribute each choice will affect. I wouldn't recommend doing that for stats that aren't binary, like crew loyalty, but for the main four it would help.

What's new

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