Description

Low Earth Orbit Adventures is a relaxing space sim set in the near future where the space around Earth has become a frontier of science, commerce and diplomacy. Retrieve the Hubble, rescue astronauts, assemble space stations and many other missions in this realistic but friendly adventure.

Overview

See the Steam page for the full overview of features and gameplay

From Liberation to LEO Adventures

With my previous games such as Liberation I enjoyed the "hard sci-fi" aspects of it, such as designing ships for zero-g passengers and entering and exiting atmospheres. With LEO Adventures I wanted to go further and try to make some realistic sci-fi. My background in software engineering involves a lot of programming for acessibility and a big challenge with a Newtonian 3D game is keeping it accessible. So I settled on "realism lite" where players hopefully get all the good stuff but it's not too punishing. I was aiming for serious but it turned out fairly goofy but I guess that's the kind of games I make!

Research

I'm a big fan of human efforts in space. In this game I have drawn inspiration from Sputnik all the way to Artemsis (and beyond). I also love the stuff that didn't quite make it, like the Bigelow inflatable space tech and all the various proposals for Shuttle 2.

Inspiration Star Cops

There's a sci-fi show from 1986 called "Star Cops" that lasted just nine episodes before the BBC cancelled it. It is a hidden gem of hard scifi. It's set in the near future where there are enough humans in space that it has gone from being a place of research to now needing basic services, such as a police. That epoch moment and the Expanse-style realism of Star Cops really excited me and served as a big inspiration. In LEO Adventures you are basically the first plumber or mechanic in space.

Features

• take on a mission of your choice in low Earth orbit
• manoeuvre with Newtonian controls into position
• attach the appropriate tool to your International docking adapter
• complete the scenario to improve you reputation and get more missions
• you can build your own space station for retiremen
• all the designs in the game, from the stations to the space planes to the docking adapters, are inspired or evolved from real world designs
• a delight for people who know their space industry history
• a focus on orbital tech and reusability
• retrieve the Hubble
• No guns, no sky beams, no magical warp gates... just our amazing planet from orbit and helping people. That's LEO Adventures.