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Is Sword of the Stars: The Pit worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- RPG players who want turn-based dungeon expeditions with recurring danger
- Strategy-minded players who enjoy managing equipment, skills, and crafting
- Sword of the Stars fans who want a sci-fi setting with playable character variety
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a continuous, low-risk campaign may find repeated lethal expeditions and many failure conditions unsuitable
- Players who prefer a narrowly scripted adventure may not enjoy randomized augmentations, room types, and item discoveries
- Players looking for a multiplayer or tabletop game rather than a video game
Our take on Sword of the Stars: The Pit
The store presentation gives substantial space to the tabletop adaptation, its Tabletop Simulator mod, and a past Kickstarter message. The playable video game itself is presented through a short premise and feature list, so the board-game material can distract from the digital RPG’s expedition-based structure.
What is Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
Sword of the Stars: The Pit is a turn-based RPG set in an alien facility beneath the Feldspar Mountains.
Players choose from 3 main characters—Marine, Pilot, or Engineer—or use 5 additional characters from the MindGames expansion, included in the base game. The Pit contains 30 levels, with enemies, traps, radiation, disease, starvation, and other hazards creating multiple ways to die. Character skills can improve during expeditions, while crafting combines materials from defeated enemies into special items. More than 50 weapons and armor pieces, over 100 discoverable items, randomized augmentations, varied room types, hidden messages, recipes, and setting lore shape each run.
How Sword of the Stars: The Pit plays
- 01Character choices
- The base game includes 3 core characters, 5 MindGames expansion characters, and one hidden character.
- 02Thirty-level facility
- Expeditions descend through 30 levels of an ancient alien complex.
- 03Equipment variety
- The game includes more than 50 weapons and armor pieces, including flamethrowers, rocket launchers, plasma cannons, and powered armor.
- 04Crafting system
- Materials taken from enemies can be combined to create special items.
- 05Randomized augmentations
- Variable augmentation effects apply to equipment and characters, changing individual games.
- 06Dungeon discoveries
- Players can find over 100 items, encounter varied room types, and uncover messages, recipes, and setting lore.
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Sword of the Stars: The Pit: platforms & release
Is Sword of the Stars: The Pit worth it?
It is worth it if: RPG players who want turn-based dungeon expeditions with recurring danger. Skip it if: players seeking a continuous, low-risk campaign may find repeated lethal expeditions and many failure conditions unsuitable.
Where can I download Sword of the Stars: The Pit?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Sword of the Stars: The Pit's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Sword of the Stars: The Pit on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
