Starsector Review | Explore the Cosmos™ | Ruin Everything™ 

So i bought a copy for me and another for a friend and the BMT guys emailed me to make sure i meant to buy two. Real quality businesses, no other retailer would ever check that.

This is no longer a merchants guild, this is a merchants conglomerate

If you're down here wondering, the game is still $15, still updated, still amazing.

Fun trivia fact, Tri-Tachyon incorporated was formerly known as OpenAI

The moral of the story is, don't save a convoy from pirates. Let the pirates destroy the convoy and then destroy the pirates so that you get twice the profit with half the work.

**copyright protection causes the fall of humanity** 10/10 game. Period.

Remember, the [REDACTED] are scary, but the true terror comes from what they answer to. Watching my entire fleet get wiped out by what amounts to a pair of schizophrenic doritos put the fear of god back into me.

As a West Virginian, the miners consuming loads of heroin joke is 100% spot on.

"Story? Nobody gives shit..." *Start narrating the Lore of a fascinating dark, nihilistic and anarchist space distopia*

"I don't have to explain shit, it just works." -Todd "Seth" Howard

Well after destroying every faction in the game a found something interesting, the hegemony and the luddic church were using alpha cores in their colonies, that makes their inspections and constant harassments bullshit.

Had problems with Ludic Path, destroyed the Ludic Church and the problem stopped. Amazing how realistic the game is.

"I'm completly biased and I don't care." Well at least you're honest about it.

Honestly true terror is when you sell a shitton of blueprints and a nanoforge to the pirates and they immediately become the strongest faction in the galaxy

I tried for so long to make a good profit with legitimate trade. I spent hours comparing prices, racing to fill demand, and struggling to stay above the (previously erroneous 60%) 86% profit margin necessary to walk away with any money after the tariffs. I was upholding order, supplying civilized planets with my legitimate goods, and improving relations with the various factions of the sector. Then I clandestinely bought every drug on the Tri-Tachyon corporation's capitol and sold them to pirates. In a single instant, I had the finances to buy a battleship, a supercarrier, two cruisers, two light cruisers, and two destroyers. Then I stood on the bridge of the most technologically advanced battleship in the galaxy and wondered what the fuck I was supposed to be doing.

I found a beautiful cobtradiction in how "civilized" the factions were; since when I had high rep with major factions they would still send expeditions to mess with my successful colonies but when I got neutral rep with the supposedly bloodthirsty pirates they left my colonies alone and served as a nice trade partner.

My Sides When Sseth Mentioning a website causes it to crash. He's becoming too powerful

bought the game. tried to live an honest life as honest space merchant. i struggle to make a profit and keep business going with repairs fuel and expenses. i was tied in an endless hell of trips just keep things afloat. then out of desperation i decided to make a stop to a luddic path planet because i was out of fuel. the margins... sweet lord i earn in a single dishonest transaction enough money to reapir a capital ship half my fleet and still have 400.000 of savings. insane. my morality was shaken. i have given troops and weapons to a terrorist organization. am i a bad man now? to hell with it i will become a weapons smuggler. i have become nicholas cage in space. i love it

there's something that seth forgot to mention that i think makes this game even more of a masterpiece. while this game is very easy to mod, it's even easier to do it yourself! you can simply go into the game's files and modify any aspect of the game you want. values for missions, fleets, and you can even change the weapon layouts of specific ships. going into the settings config, they basically walkthrough some of the important stuff and lay it out for you. this game doesn't hide its code, it fully allows you to make it your own game if you don't like specific details about vanilla. i personally wanted to have a possibility of owning half the star sector, so i changed the value of max outpost you character can hold to about 10 or 15. i don't know if other games are like this or not, but from what i heard, they aren't. i'm not a programmer in the slightest, yet in under 30 minutes i was able to reprogram the entire game to how i wanted it with no penalty whatsoever. the devs are truly one of a kind.

This feels like what people want Star citizen to be

"who knew arming terrorists could be so profitable" Isn't that how the Gulf War started?

> $15 > Mods > Regular updates > Linux support Sold.

Not only is Sseth a true chad for sharing his CD key, the developers actually link this video as the first one showcasing this game in the FAQ section. Yes, this video. With the CD key in it. If that doesn't scream faith in a product you developed I don't know what does. Definitely picking up a copy just for the balls alone. Plus I've tried it and it seems pretty neat. Cheers, Sseth and to the devs.

What the Hegemony said: “You cannot have AI” What I heard: “Objective updated: Aquire AI”

"We trade on the black market" *Cowboy Bebop music starts playing* 10/10

"start an organ harvesting operation" words I usually expect to hear in every sseth video

Hey guys, 0.9.5 update is out and Seth's key still works. Just letting you all know Edit: as of 4/14/2022: Still working but highly recommend buying it anyways when possible Edit 2: 2/6/2024: 0.9.7 Came out recently, Still works, Still recommend buying it

The fact you provide download links for a lot of games you review and even your own CD key for this one is really something I don't see and it's an aspect that makes you outshine a lot of reviewers in my opinion. It speaks to me "Fuck it, I'm not here just to have my opinion heard and make ad revenue, I genuinely love these games and I want people to play and enjoy them." A true king and Chad.

You forgot one important thing... - Get a Paragon blueprint - Learn it - Find another - Sell it on the black market - 4 months later, the sector is plunged into an even greater chaos than before.

I love how their website is currently dying from what seems like a Sseth triggered DDoS Feels like the Sseth tide 2.0

This game feels 5x more alive than most AAA developers claim their game is

here much later to tell new players some cool mods that make the game even better: 1. nexerelin [as seen in the video]: makes all the faction relations intense, gives you the option of using a gamma core + some mats to build an outpost in deep space to refuel/supply. couple custom starts that are cool [yes you can play as pirates or luddic path.] has a new update as of this writing that lets you play a land battle minigame when invading a planet. mod author fixed a bug I found in a single day. amazing. 2. underworld: small mod that adds some pirate ships/fighters, a luddic path-style high-tech faction, and a really cool custom start called 'the infernal machine.' very fun. works great with nexerelin. 3. archean order: changes every ship and weapon in the game, extra ships, gives weapons longer range, buffs/nerfs some, few extra factions, and adds a ton of fighter stuff. makes [REDACTED] and the cryosleeper guardian super hard, lags my game when you fight a semi-big fleet, but great. does not work well with underworld. works good with nexerelin. 4. industrial evolution: more exploration and colony stuff. some planets/stations have hidden stuff you will probably love. must-have. 5. starship legends: lets your ships level/de-level based on combat. adds some bar missions to find pre-leveled ships. pretty fun. 6. girls frontline portrait pack: become a smug animu waifu. SR3MP best girl.

i thought all the merchant guild crap was fake... but then i realized i've been buying all the games seth suggests...

"10/10 I'm completely biased, and I don't care." I'm gonna use that next time I write a paper.

Starsector has been updated to version 0.97a as of 02/02/2024.

a sincere thanks, sseth. this video led me to some of the greatest experiences i’ve ever had the pleasure of playing. first save, i uh, somehow unlocked a pirate smuggler contact in askonia and ended up getting friendly with them over the course of three or so cycles through legally dubious covert ops around its closest systems. their bounties were generally aimed against the league and the diktat, and it also introduced me to raiding. it was lucrative. dropping thousands of marines into a colony after a tactical bombardment and robbing them of supplies felt like free money at the time. it was rad. my pirate buddies also took advantage of this, to my surprise, as the colonies were unstable and their patrol fleets greatly weakened after my repeated attacks. i appreciated the help, as they distracted any remaining fleets and allowed me to travel through hostile territory with impunity. couple cycles later, i took up exploring and colony management after i made enough dough. with a large enough contingent of supply ships, fuel tankers, and cargo freighters, i could safely stay in deep space for several months at a time and explore to my heart’s content. i had turned a new leaf. one morning, on a pit stop to my now-successful colony, i started getting notices about planetary governments losing control of their population. the names seemed familiar-it was the colonies that i raided at the start of my save. one by one, the persean league and the diktat lost planets to rampant banditry and looting due to the local population growing desperate with the lack of supplies. i visited them out of curiosity, and sure enough, the pirates stayed long after i left, driving colony after colony to anarchy. i had let them in. 10/10. it’s amazing.

>casually toss in own CD key because why not >crash their sales site anyways with same video Not bad.

$15 is a Reasonable price I’m going to buy this as soon as everyone stops killing their website The devs should thank you you probably just sold about 30k Units

Just bought this a couple days ago and _my god._ I am not a gamer, and I tend to suck at games like this, but this game is _so_ damn _FUN._ Just today, I launched a raid on a Sindarin warehouse because a drunk populist in a bar asked me to. And I hit the wrong target because I didn't know how to navigate the menus yet. I was then promptly surrounded by _four patrol fleets,_ each one _individually_ capable of killing me. And you know how I got out of it? I pushed a single button. Transverse jumped and got the hell out of space dodge. God I love this game.

@2:45 you wouldn't fucking believe the number of times I've tried to fall asleep to Sseth's videos only to be SHOT awake by the sound of "TAH. AH-CHYON" 🙄😭😭

AI: "I'll tell everyone what you've been doing" Sseth: "Fine...I'll do it myself"

"an atrocity of this scale cant be hidden" "stop your war crimes" No.

It's 2022, Sseth's key still works bless these devs

even after 3 years the CD Key still works. Thanks Sseth, you're my favorite content provider!

cant be a seth review without selling drugs and human organs

Thanks Sseth for allowing me to finally realize my dreams of fighting for Allah in space, where no one will hear the Infidels scream

Thanks to this video I did actually try out Starsector. It's a well-made, easily modded, and fleshed out game that takes several hours from your life every time you open it. 8/10, I was wiped out by the first AI I came across every run

If you're down here wondering, Seth's CD key still works

Mbeke lowkey did the greatest social experiment regarding piracy by offering both a pirate link and the website where people can buy it. And people ended up overloading the game's website.

"The gate systems went dead. We could no longer reach the rest of humanity." > The Imperium of Man would like to know your location

This guy is probably the best game reviewer out there. He makes all games appeal to me. He doesn't ONLY talk about new games, which is rare because people have started to think that old games are inherently bad. He remains funny while talking about mechanics which may be boring. also this game is pretty cool.

This game does a very good job at avoiding cheese mechanics like dumping illegal cargo. Surprised they don't fine you a cleanup fee honestly.

This game gets insane. I installed a few mods a while back, leading to a crapton more weapons and ships, my favourite being the cathedral-class hubship. To anyone not familiar with it, it’s essentially 7 ships strapped together and about the size of a space station. I then made the best mistake of my life. I equipped it with singularity torpedos. As you’d expect, these produce miniature black holes, sucking in anything nearby. The pilot fired them off like party poppers, leading to both it, and another cathedral getting stuck together. It was then that I discovered that its death explosion is quite possibly the most destructive thing I’ve ever seen in game. It proceeded to kill both itself, and the other full health cathedral (and these things are *HARD* to kill) in one go. This lead to a flash of inspiration. I found myself a reckless pilot, put them on the ship, applied every speed mod I could, gave it a smack on the bum, and sent it straight into combat. And that’s the story of how I made the most inefficient bomb in existence

i literally forgot the name of this game so i searched up "space heroin game" and it came up lol

Starsector got updated to 0.95a in March 2021.

having played this occasionally for over 10 years, i finally bought it. The site worked amazing, asked me for my country to pay taxes, and then I got an e-mail with my code. Felt amazing. Now I haven't slept for days, I am smoking a spliff with one hand as I scream "yarr" at the screen when DPS Good Comet, my Executor-class mothership flanked by two Champion-class cruisers, rams into the enemy lines to defend the Dysnomia Party independent colonies from scum like tax collectors and tech inspectors. I have a powerful fleet and capable, high level captains to take over the command in battle for me so I can rest my tired eyes. When I close my lids I see visual remnants of ships detonating at my pulse barrages. I may be entering psychosis and it's hard to focus my vision, but it only adds to the immersion of the insane space warlord fantasy. Truly one of the greatest games ever made, and I don't even mod it, the current state it is in vanilla is already overwhelming.

Time to: >get mass profits >build a militaristic empire >colonize several worlds *Imperium of Man time*

In the grim darkness of the future, there is only trade

I know im late but I see the devs are still working on the game, it makes me so happy to see that there are still game devs out there working out of passion and not for just a quick paycheck

Starting from a frigate or destroyer and working your way to a 14th Battlegroup Legion and Onslaught combo is the most rewarding thing you'll ever experience. It can be as simple as finding one drifting out at space. You expend all your fuel dragging it to a friendly starport. And like a car project, you do job after job fixing it up and kitting it out, struggling through pirate ambushes and Luddic Jihads Until one day you roll that baby out of the garage and flatten all that dare challenge you.

"Sometimes, while exploring deep space, you might hear distress signals." "Uh, we ignore those." _"Just. Ignore them."_ In space no one can hear you sweat.

"Who knew arming terrorists could be so profitable?" America did.

For those who don't know, the anime that was on 11:29 is called Cowboy Bebop. It is a very good show. It is very funny and the fight scenes are satisfying to watch. The story is about a small group of bounty hunters who are just trying to get by financially, but with their luck they aren't so secure. Traveling among the stars and excepting every bounty that gets them dinner is all that is on their minds as they struggle. What's also unique about it is that the show, unlike most other international tv shows, is that it is a love letter to western culture. The soundtrack is a good blend of jazz and rock, the charcters gamble with their money, and the architecture looks very retro, despite it taking place in the future. I highly recomend watching it to anyone who hasn't seen it yet. It also has a very good english dub.

This is one of those videos you will for all of time come back to watch just one more time.

Game: allows you to sell organs Sseth: vigorous hand rubbing

Started watching Sseth for the "hard hitting meme content", became a die hard fan when I realized he's an excellent source for finding hidden gems in gaming. This game looks awesome and I've never heard of it before.

Key still working in 2024 lol. Thanks devs. Promise I'll buy it if I like it. Jumping into my first session now.

I love the devs, they spat in the face of big gaming companies by saying them: "see? Guys are not inclined towards piracy for profit, you just have to trust your community" and boom quintuplied sales with a free CD Key Faith restored for now

Site servers hate him! This man quintuples indie game profits with just one simple video!

The luddic chruch doesn't hate the luddic path. They'll support each others battles when within range to join in on the fight. This will also make the church hostile towards the player, or other fleets that had any church reinforcements join the luddic path. Also this game recently been updated. So check it out.

4 years later I can say this is the best game daddy Sseth has ever recommended to me. I love this game and its vibrant modding community.

1. Propose a ceasefire 2. RECEIVE NO REPLY I completely lost it.

The devs wrote to me and told me we also brought the BMT Micro site to a crawl. I've updated the description with direct download links of the game. These are hosted on Amazon cloudflare - should be much more resilient.

I've noticed the reckless pilots are great in the monitor ship(the slowest ship besides capitols) because those ships have great shields and never need to be at the back

Most replayed part of this video is the part where Sseth's CD key is on screen.

Decided to play this game. I found a particularly profitable trade route: there was an isolated Luddic Path mining planet in a certain star system, the only planet in said star system, without any protection and in dire need of heroin. About 1 day away, in the nearest star, an independent colony was producing a jack shit ton of heroin. They weren't the largest producers in the galaxy, but when you put the accumulated costxprofit of buying all the heroin from the colony and selling it to the Jihads, buying their ores and selling back to the colony, it was a goddamn Space Silk Road. A "Heroin" Road, if you will. Nonexistent patrols meant that I could run with my transponder off non-stop and after just a few upgrades my fleet was the top dog in the region. Life was good. Well, once you get rich you want to settle down, of course, so I decided to colonize an irradiated planet in the independent star system, because for some reason a planet that was completely irradiated still had a lower hazard rate than the other barren worlds nearby. Turns out that the independent faction did not like my plans of turning a glowing dead rock into a glowing rock with people in it, so they launched a plan to bombard my brand new colony and kill everyone in it. If someone makes a public threat of nuclear annihilation, I'd say it's fair to answer in kind. So after negotiations failed (because turns out that 1000 workers consume A LOT of supplies per day, and that ate through my funds), I simply traveled to the independent planet that was organizing the raid before they could deploy, just a week away, very convenient. Once I got in orbit, I bombarded the planet, making it go barren. Everyone else decided to call me a nazi fascist and I got canceled on twitter. Even the jihadis were just baffled at what I had done. Still, they needed that heroin, and the independents needed to sell their heroin, so business as usual. That is, of course, until I decided to take two pirate's contracts, and as I flew in to deliver the second, my fleet got swarmed by 6 different fleets trying to get my head, because everyone hated me for killing the people trying to kill me. Great game, 10/10.

It always feels like such a long time in between videos.

“I give it a 10/10. I’m thoroughly bias, and I don’t care.” That’s a review you can trust.

The Industry speech near the end at 16:57 with the hundreds of merchant guild members and music by FASTLAND always makes me tear up just a bit. So many people all doing their thing and indirectly working together to make a product way better than a AAA company could ever hope to achieve. *Man.*

Aw this was such a wholesome review for our boy Sseth. You can tell how much he genuinely loves this game.

Seth is like our big brother that we wish we had when we were young, and nothing like the big brother we have when we are old

-Started the game -Tried to do survey contract as Sseth advice -See bounty contract that's near the star system my survey takes place -Accept both -Buy supplies and provisions and jump to hyperspace -Reached the star system the bounty takes place -Found the target -Spend an hour in real time chasing and interdicting the target -Realized that their fleet has far higher burn level than my fleet (which is mostly tanker and cargos) -Bounty mission failed because of time running out -Realized my supplies are going low -Push ahead to the star system where the survey takes place, hopefully I can make some money -Finished the survey, got the money, now it's time to go back to core worlds -Encountered hostile fleet in hyperspace -Haul ass in panic -Managed to escape, then I realized my fuel is depleted -Also realized that I'm now near the edge of the map -Drift into the nearest star system -Found a nice planet to colonize -Colonize it anyway -Also found hostile contact of REDACTED] in the same system -Managed to destroy it and get AI cores -Turns out there's a cryoship in the same system -Jumpstart my colony growth from the money, AI cores and cryoship that I got -Turn my colony into major market at the edge of the sector -Pissed off Ludd follower and Hegemony officials -They tried to give a warning, I tell them to fuck off -They send an invasion fleet... -That never reached my colony, somehow destroyed en route -Rack up profit like never before 11/10, would play again (I am completely biased)

When I first got my hands on a Alpha core AI I transferred it in one of my Phase class ships, And its terrifying experience to see this what ever it is doing, It won a battle of 1 vs 5 and it caused more damage than my whole fleet alone.

"Using a AI is illegal. Using a Alpha AI is EXTREMELY FUCKING illegal." This is a great quote

Who knew arming radical space terrorists could be so profitable.. CIA has left the chat

For anyone recently checking out the video. Starsector is still 15$ and still getting updated. One of the best games ive ever played.

You know it’s a good game when the default control bindings don’t suck

“The Starsector equivalent of Killer Queen.” Now we know Sseth’s favorite Stand. And I can respect that choice.

This video made me try the game and I actually liked it. $15 for a gem like this is a steal super undervalued

I sometimes come back to this video just to listen to the 4 seconds of sseeth presenting Tri-Tachyon, because damn I dunno why but I love it

"Here's my actual CD key". What an absolute mench.

... aaannd the Starsector website is down. I wonder why?

TEITWHP9ONA7HMKWA6YA TEITW-HP9ON-A7HMK-WA6YA TEITW HP9ON A7HMK WA6YA Whichever format works best for you guys

If there's one thing I can thank Sseth for, it's this. Introducing me to one of my all time favourite games.

"wait a minute, this game looks familiar..." *checks email* "I pre-ordered this in 2013???"

Spent 2 hours customizing and testing my ship to make it perfect but then gave up and decided to autofit and the design they gave me was 10x better. 10/10 game.

2:47 for anyone who was wondering: Takyon (Death Yon) van Death Grips

Thank you for sharing the CD Key. I began a profitable career as a carrier captain hunting pirates and destabilising their Colonies. Then I suicided my fleet into a Pather patrol because I knew if I didn't stop here I'd never buy my own copy of the game. And as soon as I have the money I will!

SSeth, you just breathed new life into an amazing game. I've literally been playing this for five straight days. Thanks for selling me this addiction.

You can tell a game is great when Seth cuts down on the jokes and gushes about the content