You are Jack Sharp, a daring adventurer, stranded on a dangerous, wild planet known as K’Tharsis. K’Tharsis is a former mining outpost, gradually becoming a ghost colony as the Antigravium Crystal Rush is over and the inhabitants struggle for survival.

There’s a constant struggle for existence on K’Tharsis as desert raiders, runaway slaves and the original natives are always thirsty for blood. They fight the normal people and aliens who live safely behind the walls of the settlements and the last corporate enclaves. There is only one guarantee, and it’s that not everyone is going to survive.

Within Exoplanet, there’s a good balance between classic “shoot-em-up” style gaming, and exploration. There’s a rich set of charismatic characters to meet, many of them based on cult personalities from Western movies with their own motives and hidden secrets. By talking to non-player-characters and listening to the dialogs you will be able to find new, more profitable ways to solve quests, but you will also be able to unearthen treasure as you will be able to influence them. The inhabitants of K'tharsis have their own background, motives, problems, quirks, and their own story to tell. Play your cards right, and they might even warn you on upcoming assassination attempts.

The team behind Exoplanet took their inspiration from classic games such as Fallout, TESIII Morrowind, Gothic, and the Firefly TV-series. Combining all of these, they defined Exoplanet as a space western universe, where the protagonist benefits from cybernetic augmentations and hoverbikes, but is still very reliant on his ever trusty revolver.

Alersteam has released a new update for Exoplanet: First Contact, currently available on Steam Early Access.

Exoplanet Update #4:

Dear players, we gladly present to you the latest update! The new starting area was heavily overhauled and vastly expanded. We've added new locations, characters, quests and things to do in this area.

Here is a brief list of changes with the most impact:

WORLD

• New starting scene
• Vastly expanded new starting area
• Started working on splitting the world into two distinct biomes
• New rocks and cliffs assets
• First version of distant land
• New NPCs
• New traders
• A new dangerous mushroom
• New sand textures
• Lots of minor edits and polishing.

VISUALS

• New animations and fixes for aborigines and humans
• Two new clothes\armor sets for humans
• Tweaked color correction
• Lots of new models, textures and particle effects

GAMEPLAY

• Added a basic hand to hand combat
• Left and right mouse buttons trigger different melee animations
• You can purify dirty water with a help of three bluethorn leaves

ITEMS

• Added a flare gun with support for similar rocket-like weapons
• New melee weapons
• Added dirty water with negative effects
• Added new descriptions
• New models and icons
• Updated icons for some items

UI

• Overhauled character window - displays more info and you can now assign various items and apparel in slots (for now - purely cosmetic)
• Armor value shows in tooltip
• Read dialog options colored gray

QUESTS / DIALOGS

Added five brand new quests:

• To the Fort
• Abori goes home
• Someone stole my pants
• Get rid of the Scalphunters
• Aborigine armor
  
• Remade and expanded some existing quests

BALANCE

• Drastically reduced amount of clean water

OTHER

• New sound effects

FIXES

• Lots of other fixes and additions

Exoplanet will also introduce innovative elements of survival to give the player a more immersive experience. If you choose to turn these options on, Jack will need sleep, food and water to be able to survive. Not having enough of either will affect his physical and mental condition! So make sure Jack roasts plenty of bitebugs and juicy hornhog steaks to keep it healthy, ready to take on the next bandits!

Exoplanet: First Contact will be the first Chapter, the major part of the Exoplanet’s Universe. Future Chapters will discover new adventures of Jack and his friends on this and other planets.