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this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2024
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A community to talk about the free online game Space Station 13.
I honestly just made this on a whim because I wanted a place to talk about the game on Lemmy. Doubt this will even be seen until I actually set up the community more lol. Just filling up space for now.
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As someone from nowhere relevant to this, game? What are you on about? Is this an MMO? Is it browser based?
Space Station 13 is a free online game where dozens of players pick a role on a space station and they must perform their duties till a shuttle comes to take the survivors "home" so the round ends. Here is a video review of it that explains it well.
The roles/jobs you can pick are things like chef/botanist/security/science/medical/Clown.
It's a really great game that is over 20 years old now. It's run on a program called Byond that is used to make user games. You'll just need to install that program to run SS13 and then have an account on the site.
That's all just the basic space station 13 information I had to explain before what this server is. People decided to code over one of the SS13 servers to make it a medieval game instead. You'll be able to now be things like a king/queen/guard/mercenary/begger/tavern keeper/graveyard keeper/Jester
In the video I am walking towards a rotten corpse to bring it to the graveyard to burry. I jokingly say it smelled nice to the other player and they emoted the "gag" sound.
Hope I explained it well! It's one of my favorite games.
I've never played but it looked interesting to me so I did some research. All of this is open to fact checks.
It's a sandbox game where you're on a space station* an have some specific job to do, to keep the station running (or sometimes, to cause a little chaos for other players to deal with). Some people are security, some are engineers, some are medical officers, some are cooks, all (or most) are trying to keep the station going. Sometimes they're an additional overarching goal, but usually it's just "survive the treacherous space climate".
It's not really an MMO because it's pretty small. "Massive" doesn't really apply. And it doesn't fit most tropes you'd associate with MMOs. There's not really a persistent world, the game happens in rounds rather than an always-on server. It seems kind of like Among Us meets Dwarf Fortress.
*The code is "semi open source" (read: got hacked and leaked a couple of times) so there are a many modded servers as vanilla (there seems to be some debate over what "vanilla" even means for this game). So they aren't always on a space station, but typically about maintaining SOME kind of colony.
That's a good synopsis of the game. Nothing wrong that I notice. Glad it doesn't have persistent world as the station is normally destroyed by the end of the round lol.
Players can also be picked to be an antagonist for the round. It'll be something like a traitor who has to kill other players or steal a specific item. You can also get picked for something else like a cultist that has to secretly/forcibly convert the rest of the station before they get caught. Or you can just straight up be a xenomorph and relive the alien franchise by making more of you out of the stations workers lol.
No two rounds are alike.