UNRELEASED GAME – AVAILABLE
This game is still in active development and available to the public for purchase in it's unfinished state, either in Early-Alpha or Beta (or any status in between).
Taxinaut is an open-world Sci-Fi exploration game where you play as a taxi-driver in space.Explore an open galaxy as a lonely TAXINAUT carrying fares across alien worlds. Descent onto planets and fly over alien cities and landscapes. Land at bars, diners, garages and many other common and exotic locations. Interact with the locals to ask for directions or learn about the many esoteric and often clandestine aspects of the Kyprei-41 galaxy. Experience a large variety of items and effects like food, equipment, weapons, damages, repairs, injuries, diseases, cures, mental states, permits, quests, memberships, etc.
Current Features
The following is a list of features that are all already fully available in the game as of version V0.7
Over 100,000 star-systems each with on average 3 planets you can descent to and fly over their surface.
Descent and ascent seamlessly to and from planets.
Traffic-control and stations with startports and customs.
Suitably annoying traffic, especially on busy planets.
Fly into other traffic and interact with the occupants.
Planetary expressway and grid-based traffic for faster traversal.
Planets with special weather.
Galaxy-wide day and night cycle which affects prices and what's out there.
Everything costs or pays a galactic currency called VUDU which is also your lifeblood: when you run out, you die.
Store some of your VUDU at a bank for safe keeping or take out a loan; lose your home when you don't repay your loan in time.
Sleep at motels to create a checkpoint and/or avoid the night or day time.
Special harder to find locations that have special benefits (e.g. they sell better warp-cores).
Simply quit when you want and continue where you left off next time.
When you die you respawn at your last resting place but with only 1 point of VUDU and most of the injuries and damage you took.
Buy a home where you can create regular save-games that you can load at any time for a full recovery of your progress just like in most other games.
Planetary underground dungeon systems.
Order items remotely from your home from most discovered traders and have them delivered at your door the next morning.
Faction based law-system with different rules, permits, tickets and warrants for different factions.
Variety of methods for interstellar-travel: Use warp-cores or teleporters or book passage on transporters or intergalactic-liners.
Laid back pure mouse-controls for PC lovers: Mouse in one hand, beverage in the other.
Buy information from people, charm them, hit them, kill them, etc.
Extensive galaxy-map with filter to find back discovered sites and job opportunities.
See a map of any planet you've visited an the places you've discovered there.
Difficulty rating, icons and indicators on potential fares tell you what you need to know about the trip ahead (if that information is available).
Some fares are meter based with an array of possible surcharges, others are simply fixed-price.
Passengers can give tips when happy but get increasingly upset if you take too long; they can run without paying, attack or rob you.
Source: The Game Website.