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Galaxy of Pen & Paper (2012) is a role-playing game about commanding a spaceship crew on missions. You get to design and upgrade your team in a similar fashion to tabletop roleplay games, like Dungeons and Dragons. Here though, it's a sci-fi world. It's the majesty of space with the charm of the basement.

Like any good roleplay adventure, you start by creating your characters, humans and aliens, from their appearance, abilities, roles and gadgets. Entering battles, you roll dice to determine how many actions you can take (attacking, healing, upgrading) before you start. You then enter a digital turn-taking battle like a classic role-playing game.

It's an unusual set-up as you control not only the group but the level of challenge they meet. Decide which side-quests they take on. And decide who you take onto each of these missions. It's a clever combination of digital and physical adventuring that makes you feel like you are in charge as well as entering into a procedurally generated challenge.

There are a number of games in the series that build upon each other. The Knights of Pen & Paper, which are previous to Galaxy of Pen & Paper, have medieval-based adventures and quests rather than sci-fi:
  • Knights of Pen & Paper (2012) on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC
  • Knights of Pen & Paper 2 (2015) on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac
  • Galaxy of Pen & Paper (2017) on iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Mac

Our examiner, Hannah Robertson, first checked Galaxy of Pen & Paper 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 14 months ago.
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Play StylePlay Style

This is a Narrative and Role-Play game with Adventure, Collecting and Communication elements. This is a single-player game.

 
You can play this game in the following styles:

DurationDuration

Play Time: This game will take between 10 hours and 15 hours to complete.

Age RatingsAge Ratings

Content Rating

Galaxy of Pen & Paper (2017) is rated PEGI 7 for mild violence. The game features mild violence in a heavily pixelated style. Characters flinch a bit when hit and lose some health points. When defeated, enemies disappear and party members lay unconscious on the ground. They can be revived and cannot die. There is no emphasis on pain or suffering.

Knights of Pen & Paper 2 (2015) is rated PEGI 7 because it features mild violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to human-like characters and violence that lacks any apparent harm or injury to fantasy or mythical beings and creatures.

Knights of Pen & Paper (2012) is rated PEGI 7 for depictions of non-realistic violence towards fantasy characters, depictions of non-detailed and non-realistic violence towards non-detailed human-like characters, and depictions of non-realistic violence of a minor nature towards human-like characters. Characters brightly flash and shake upon the impact of the attacks, and numbers appear above their heads showing the amount of damage that has been inflicted. All the enemies feature a health bar, which when depleted causes the enemies to die and vanish. The playable human characters also have a health and magic bar, and when their health bar has been depleted the chair that they were sitting on becomes a tombstone.

CostsCosts

Galaxy of Pen & Paper usually costs £11.39.
 

Galaxy of Pen & Paper

Steam Store PC £11.39
Steam Store Mac £11.39
XBox Store Xbox One -
Switch Store Switch -
PlayStation Store PS4 -
XBox Store Xbox X|S -
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.
 
Free additional content for this game was added for all platforms. This includes new characters, classes, missions, planets and skills.

The previous games are Knights of Pen & Paper (2012) and Knights of Pen & Paper 2 (2015) which are still available to buy and download. 
 

DetailsGame Details

Release Date: 30/10/2012, updated in 2020

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS

Players: 1

Genres: Narrative, Role-Play (Adventure, Collecting and Communication)

Accessibility: 7 features

Components: 2D Overhead, Dice and Hand-Made

Developer: Behold Studios (@BeholdStudios)


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