Starstruck Vagabond is a Life Simulation Game made by Yahtzee Croshaw, slated for a release on May 24th 2024.
In it, you play as an intergalactic courier (whose default name is Jacques McKeown) set to retrieve some highly important deposits of Unobtainium. After getting the precious cargo onto your ship, setting the destination to home, and activating the cryo stasis, a stray meteor hits your vessel — and the stasis gets set for over two thousand years longer than it should be. Waking up in a distant future, everything you know is gone; time to start a new life.
You can find the game's Steam page here.
Tropes:
- Character Customization: The Second Wind livestreams of JM8, Yahtzee, and Nick playing this game show that the player can adjust the hairstyle, gender, and clothes/skin/hair color of their player character upon starting the game. Later on, you'll have the option to also customize your character's personality.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The Steam trailer has a The Stinger bit in which Sarge gets jettisoned into space, towards a big space station in the distance. After a Fade to Black, the station is depicted violently exploding and leaving no trace left... except for Sarge, who's floating back to the player's ship from the station. Man had a whole adventure in there but not a bit of it is depicted onscreen.
- Shout-Out: The personality customization screen uses various pop-culture characters as reference points for the personality they describe, like Cersei Lannister or Princess Leia.
- Written Sound Effect: The Steam trailer depicts the player fixing a part of their spaceship, as onomatopoeia ("ALIGN! ADJUST! CRANK!") eject out from the device.
