Choice of the Star Captain
Choice of the Star Captain is the hilarious interactive science-fiction novel where your choices determine how the story proceeds. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--but powered by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
For example, suppose Lloyd has just informed you that your ship will crash land on the jungle moon of Cygnus Delta in 93 seconds. What will you do?
A) Call upon your elite piloting skills to escape the moon’s gravity well. B) Invite Lloyd to land the ship himself, if he’s so smart. C) Make the prudent choice, and try landing on the moon’s surface instead of attempting a risky escape. D) Spend the last 93 seconds of your life gleefully smashing Lloyd’s screen with a torque wrench.
Humanity needs you, Star Captain! Will you defeat the Blobs and come home as a war hero? Will you uncover the secret that sparked the Blob invasion? Will you serve as ambassador and convince the Blobs to spare the human race? The choice is yours.
Category : Role Playing
Reviews (28)
the story was exciting and it was a lot of fun having control over how things went down
I loved this game, and am looking forward to a sequel.
A great story with a pulp sci-fi feel.
Story was fine the first time I played like a year ago (especially since this was one of, if not the first CoG gane I played). Now I tried playing again because I had basically forgotten the story. Realize now that the story is so linear I can't even be bothered to finish. I said I wanted to be a smuggler dammit, so why am I being drafted into the army when I clearly failed all my tests? Just kick me out and let me do something more interesting. I understand that there needs to be some story, but I've played more linear games that are more interesting than this. This is especially frustrating seeing as you start off so free, but lose all freedom by the second chapter. You should have just started off going to join the army, that way it screws you over less when you can't do anything else. There are just not enough relevant choices or emotional connection to anything. There are virtually no meaningful relationships other than Lloyd. That said, the writing was decent and the dialogue with Lloyd is funny, if you can get past how god damn frustrating he is (In my case he stopped being funny after the first playthrough).
I've only played through on so far and I find the story enjoyable and very engaging. Keep up the good work.
Getting bored after a while.
USED to work fine & I played it over and over, then I updated the app & now it won't run. Sent the dev. A report 5 min. Ago, they need to either fix it or start offering refunds... I hate it when this happens...
I would say that the strong points of this piece are its clever humor, good writing, interesting characters, and its length. There's plenty of laughable moments, but I never felt like it was too much. The story was engaging, with well thought-out choices. I am very much a fan of Loyd, it wouldn't be the same game without him! I've run into a few game-books that were disappointingly short, whereas this game was long enough to develop a good story. The only big thing I have to say against it is this - the plot is very much linear. Not that it is a bad thing, first time through, but it doesn't make it very re-playable. That being said, it is definitely worth the purchase, as a clever and well written piece of work.
Haven't finished it but as far as I know its I very...dull? Its too linear and not nearly as gripping as any of the other choice of games. Unfortunately this is the first to not grip me on the first chapter and continually fail to do so even up to chapter 9. Hopefully this is the first and last negative review I have on a CoG game
I thoroughly enjoyed this app & would recommend it to anyone looking to recapture the feel of old gamebooks & CYOA novels. The story is well written, original, & very humorous. Compared to similar apps it has a far better standard of English (i.e. it has actually been proof-read & edited), provided an ample amount of content for the price tag, & had less scope to randomly kill the character requiring a restart. Linearity is its only (slight) fault.
Ended my first playthrough with the first three choices of the game and laughed so hard it made my day, immediately making this app worth every penny. I'm a fan of CoG and their work is stellar, I highly recommend this and all of their other apps! Keep up the good work, guys!
Every aspect of the story is dull an uninspired. No cool tech, no fun characters, next to no action, and super predictable plot.give this a miss until they try it again.
I like the choice of games stuff normally, but the writing on this one just wasn't very good to be honest, not worth 2.99
This was fun, but not great. It's not that the game was too linear... I don't mind linearity, but really not much happened. More small scale encounters and opportunities to make caption esq judgements calls would have been nice.... This just felt a tad rushed.
I enjoyed and laughed at certain parts of the game. The writing made me overlook other things, like linearity. It was enjoyable.
It was long enough I suppose, however this one was just...felt too linear? I can't quite express why I didn't enjoy this one as much, I found it annoying that you are only given one scenario to use each chosen trait, [i.e. if your fitness is high you have one opportunity to shine, then that is it.] No disrespect to the writer, as I know they took the time to write out this storyline, but since I paid thought some constructive criticism couldn't hurt. Thanks for the entertainment.
Yet another great Choice Of game. Funny, a clever story, meaningful choices, fun characters, and good length. Looking, forward to future output from these guys.
The characters have distinct personalities, it's very humorous, the dialogue is engaging, the plot is amazing, and the writing is eloquent
This story reminds me a bit of ender games same kind of war going on
As always, a great game from Choice of Games. A bit short but captivating.
I really enjoyed this interactive story!
One of the few actually good "Choice of" games. I definitely recommend it.
A nice trip back to the choose your own adventure genre :-)
Fun word-type adventure game! A bit too linear, but perfect in every other way! I also love the computer! Great game! Worth the price, totally!
It was long enough but the story doesn't really change. Not worth replay
Really enjoyed it.
It was okay. . . Not the best from CoG.
Story was shorter than I'd like and wasn't the best sci-fi story I've gone through. Wouldn't exactly recommend it.