History VideoGame / EmpyrionGalacticSurvival

* ArmorIsUseless: {{Averted}}. Armor is likely one of the best things you can get in the game. In fact, it's essential - without armor and the EVA module, you won't be able to exploit the resources of any planet or moon that does not have a breathable atmosphere.

* DemonicSpiders: One of your first enemies will be plate-sized spiders that like to attack in groups and ambush you. They are not very strong, though, and they are a good source of raw meat.

* DropPod: This is how the player escapes the ''MS Titan'''s destruction. The pod also becomes the player's first home and storage room.

* GoddamnedBats: When getting into a large Zirax Base, the Crawlers (which look like large bats) will be hounding you non-stop.
** The Zirax will periodically attack your base, using drones (armed with miniguns and rockets) or transports (carrying troops). A little strategy will allow you to easily defeat them, but it can be a pain to deal with.

* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: One of the tools you can make can be used to decorate your base and ship.

* AllOrNothingReloads: All the tools save for the basic MagicTool you get for free work like this. If you reload while the current clip still has charges, you can say goodbye to them.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: {{Averted}}. While you can breathe in some of the planets, other planets force you to keep your helmet on in order to survive.

* BoringButPractical: The shotgun. It does not have much of a range, but its cheap ammo (copper ingots and nitrocellulose) and stopping power make it one of the most useful weapons - particularly since most fights are likely to happen on the short distance. The upgraded shotgun has more shorts per reload and makes even more damage.

** Scavenging of buildings and crashed ships can be really slow and prone to accidents, due to GravityIsAHarshMistress, but in exchange you get a lot of materials that can allow you to save when you want to build something else. Planting a core on the building allows you to directly take the blocks.
** Building your base underground. It takes quite a lot of time to dig enough space for a base, but in exchange you get materials (mainly crushed rocks) and, unless you plant anything above ground (such as solar panels or turrets), enemy drones will be unable to destroy your base, as the earth stops all attacks.

* CoolSpaceship: You can build yourself one that can act as your mobile base. The ''MS Titan'' also counted.

* AllOrNothingReloads: All the tools save for the

** Rather than spending time to manually build a base or a vessel block by block, you can just pick a blueprint from the available "factory", feed it with the required materials and wait until it is done.

** When digging for ore, you usually ended up away from the tunnel you digged to reach it. As of Alpha 11, the player has access to a drone that can carry your tools and use them, so you can easily wait at the end of the tunnel and send the drone to collect the ore. The drone can also be used to salvage materials.
** If you have the materials, the Multitool can be used to upgrade blocks and devices that can be changed for an improved version.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: A base can only have a maximum of 15 solar panels.

* ActionSurvivor: The player was the ''MS Titan'''s commander when the fight against the Zirax destroyed it.

* AllianceMeter: There are three factions in the game that you can deal with. You will lose trust with them if you do things like hurting them, stealing things from them or overflying them for too long, but you can gain it by killing predators or killing the enemy in their terrain, and certain acts (like mining) can be carried out if they like you enough. The levels are, from worst to best, Hostile, Unfriendly, Neutral, Friendly and Honored.
** Polaris: they are always covered almost from head to toes and wear visors. Their territories tend to be small, but contain a market where you can buy almost anything you could need. You gain some trust if you kill Zirax aliens. Trading with them requires at least "Friendly" status.
** Talon: they have a primitive air to them, living in fortresses made of wood and cloth and armed with lances. They hate it when you destroy plants within their territory or kill non-predator animals, but they love it when you kill Zirax in their territory.
** Zirax: they are the most bellicose of the lot, and also usually the ones covering the most territory. You usually begin with them as "Unfriendly", and will likely drop to "Hostile" due to their drone attacks on you. They do not care if you steal resources from their territories and actually like it if you kill plants within their territory.

** Averted as of Alpha 11. Now, the Zirax are one of several factions, and if you play your cards well they may end up regarding you as a friend. Of course, the few ways to make the Zirax happy with you will probably make the others angry with you.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In the first alpha versions, the only way to get fuel for your initial tools was to wait for your food to rot and then turn it into biofuel, which is quite frustrating when EarlyGameHell means every bit of food is important. Eventually, a change was made so wood (and later plant fiber, one of the most abundant available resources) could be used for that.
** You can fuel your generators with the biofuel made from plant fibers. It requires a lot of time (you need 10 plant fibers for 10 fuel units, with each plant only giving out 4 fibers per harvest), but it is a renewable resource, unlike the more powerful promethium.
** When building an advanced tool or device, you can just give the constructor the basic resources, indicate the final product you want and the constructor will deal with the intermediate steps.
** You have access to a "factory" that creates bases and vessels following a blueprint. Instead of spending time building either block by block, you can just choose a blueprint and feed it what it is asking for. When it is done, you can just spawn the base or vessel wherever you want.
** Instead of having to track every container and constructor whenever you make something, you can access any of them using the base control panel. A later change allows you to open one container and pick any other with a menu.

** All constructors save for the portable version are directly connected to cargo boxes, making it easier to create objects since there is no need to keep moving resources between them.
** You get a tool at the beginning that allows you to defend yourself, dig for resources and salvage objects. It requires no fuel (previously it was CastFromStamina) and can be made without spending any resources.

** One problem when it comes to digging is that the ores are always found forming a sphere, and getting all of it can put you away from the tunnel you made. As of Alpha 11, you have a drone you can access at any point and which can handle any of your tools, which allows you to use it to dig all the ore without moving from the mouth of the tunnel.
** The Multitool can be used to upgrade blocks and devices that can be changed for a better version - if you have the materials, of course.

* AttackDrone: One of your first enemies in the game. The Zirax make heavy use of them in the planet.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Every creature you fight has a weak point, which, when hit, will cause more damage than usual. Humanoid creatures, for example, will likely be killed if shot in the head.
** All large buildings have a core that acts as its "heart". If you manage to destroy it, everything within will stop working and it will be considered "neutral", allowing you to ransack it.
* BoringButPractical: The shotgun. It will likely be one of your first weapons and does not have a lot of range compared with the pulse rifle or the minigun, but the ammo is cheap and easy to make, and pretty much anything that attacks you can be dropped in one shot. You can also get an upgrade that makes it even deadlier.
** Farming. While it is quite tedious (you have to build a number of growing plots and a light, a capacitor and either a generator (with fuel tank) or solar panels (which only produce energy by day), an oxygen tank and also keeping the plots isolated from radiation (which will kill the plants instantly)), it can give you much variety in food and medicines.
** Scavenging of buildings and crashed ships can be really slow and prone to accidents, due to GravityIsAHarshMistress, but in exchange you get a lot of materials that can allow you to save when you want to build something else.

* DownerBeginning: You begin the game as the (maybe) only survivor of the ''MS Titan'''s destruction.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Unlike in other games, things won't float mid-air. If you take a block's connection to the ground, or said connection isn't enough to keep it in place, the block will fall - and that means losing it.

* KleptomaniacHero: You will find yourself taking everything you can find in crates, boxes and lockers. And, if it is part of a crashed spaceship, you will probably want to take it apart for building supplies. If you do this to a faction you are on friendly terms with, though, it will quickly drop down to Unfriendly status.
* MagicTool: The Multitool, which allows you to remove or repair objects.

* RiddleForTheAges: When you find the MS Titan's pieces, you realize that the state they are in indicates it's been a few years since they crashed.

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The Zirax and their robots will always shoot to kill when they see you.

** You have access to a "factory" that creates bases and vessels following a blueprint. Instead of spending time building either block by block, you can just choose a blueprint and feed it what it is asking for. When it is done, you can just place the base or vessel wherever you want.
** Instead of having to track every container and constructor whenever you make something, you can access any of them using the base control panel.
** When you die, the map will helpfully mark where your corpse is, so your clone can recover the objects you dropped.
** Now, all constructors save for the portable version are directly connected to cargo boxes, making it easier to create objects since there is no need to keep moving resources between them.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: Your base can only have a maximum of 15 solar panels.

* BoringButPractical: The shotgun. It'll be one of your first weapons, can drop most enemies in one or two shots and can be upgraded to be more deadly.

* BreakableWeapons: Eventually, all of your hand-held weapons will break down. They can be fixed with a Repair Station, but the reparation only restores it partially, and after doing this a number of times the weapon won't work anymore.

* EarlyGameHell: At the beginning, you will struggle to survive even if there are no aliens around - just getting the resources you need to begin will take a long time.

* GoddamnedBats: When getting into the Alien Base, the Crawlers (which look like large bats) will be hounding you non-stop.

* ItemCrafting: A fundamental game mechanic, as the only way to survive is to craft tools for resource gathering and blocks for construction.
* KleptomaniacHero: You will find yourself taking everything you can find in crates, boxes and lockers. And, if it is part of a crashed spaceship, you will probably want to take it apart for building supplies.

* MustHaveCaffeine: You can make coffee out of some beans that look a lot like coffee beans. The coffee gives you stamina.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: The food you can find - even the meat of the local fauna - can be eaten without issue. At later versions eating it raw may cause indigestion, requiring cooking it in some way.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: This is one of the meters you need to keep an eye on. Fortunately, some careful looking will probably yield low-grade food that can tide you over until you can begin farming and cooking.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In the first alpha versions, the only way to get fuel for your initial tools was to wait for your food to rot and then turn it into biofuel, which is quite frustrating when EarlyGameHell means every bit of food is important. Eventually, a change was made so wood could be used for that.

** As of Alpha 9.7, there is a tool that allows you to defend yourself, dig for resources and salvage objects. You get it in the beginning and it requires no fuel.

* EquipmentBasedProgression: Your initial tools are not enough to allow him to thrive. In essence, you have to use what you find in the beginning to make constructors that give you better tools to get resources more efficiently and thus make even better constructors. Also, you cannot leave the planet until you can build a spaceship, which requires a Large Constructor at the very least.

* GhostShip: The surface of the planets has many remains of spaceships that have crashed there. Including the ''MS Titan''.

* KleptomaniacHero: You will find yourself taking everything you can find in crates, boxes and lockers. And, if it is part of a crashed spaceship, you will probably look to take it apart for building supplies.

* MerchantCity: There are several cities and space stations whose only purpose is to allow players to buy and sell supplies.
* MustHaveCaffeine: You can make coffee out of some beans that look a lot like coffee beans. They give you a small increase in stamina.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers: The food you can find - even the meat of the local fauna - can be eaten without issue.

'''''Empyrion: Galactic Survival''''' is a SurvivalSandbox exploration game developed by Eleon Game Studios currently available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, where the players take on the role of human survivors of their starship's destruction.

Available since August 5th 2015, it is currently in alpha state

!''Empyrion: Galactic Survival'' has examples of these tropes:

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: This is one of the meters you need to keep an eye on. Fortunately, some careful looking will probably yield low-grade food that can tide you over until you can begin farming and cooking.

** Instead of having to track every container and constructor whenever you make something, you can access the base control panel and access them all from any place.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: This is one of the meters you need to keep an eye on. Fortunately, some careful looking will probably yield low-grade food that can tide you over until you can begin farming.

In the 24th century, humanity's fate on Earth was at risk: population had risen to 18 million, resources were becoming scarce, global warming had caused a rising of the sea levels and industrial civilization was a century away from total collapse.

* TechTree: As you gain experience through harvesting and fighting, you gain points you can use to unlock new build options.

** You have access to a "factory" that creates bases and vessels following a blueprint. Instead of spending time

* OneBulletClip: Played straight with the weapons, averted for the tools - if you reload a tool before you spend the current tank, you lose what remained in that tank.

* AntiFrustrationMeasures: In the first alpha versions, the only way to get fuel for your initial tools was to wait for your food to rot and then turn it into biofuel, which is quite frustrating when EarlyGameHell means every bit of food is important. Eventually, a change was made so wood could be used for that.
** When building an advanced tool or device, you can just give the constructor the basic resources, indicate the final product you want and the constructor will deal with everything else.