{"id":1690759,"date":"2026-09-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eDfDfso5kce9S8veUnmSe6"},"modified":"2026-09-12T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:00:00","slug":"starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfinder: Afterlight, a CRPG based on one of my favourite systems that pulled in almost $1 million on Kickstarter, is starting to look ship-shape"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a close eye on Starfinder: Afterlight for a few reasons\u2014firstly, I&#8217;m a Pathfinder 2e sicko, and Starfinder 2e works on a ton of the same rules. Secondly, because I love a good CRPG, and thirdly, because this game has a surprising amount of financial and voice acting heft behind it.<\/p>\n<p>After getting a surprising \u20ac828,164 (around $960,000) funded out of a humble <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/epictellers\/starfinder-afterlight\">\u20ac75,000 ask on Kickstarter<\/a>, the game managed to snag <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/starfinder-afterlight-snags-red-dead-redemption-2s-roger-clark-to-voice-its-narrator-and-hes-just-as-arthur-morgan-about-it-as-youd-expect\/\">Red Dead Redemption&#8217;s Arthur Morgan for its narration<\/a>. It also just so happens to be getting voice direction from Neil Newbon, who you might know as Astarion from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/baldur-s-gate-3\/\">Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3<\/a>\u2014and the man&#8217;s voicing an interstellar priest bug, which is as charming as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside some promising key art, I was curious to see if Epicteller Game&#8217;s debut game could put another solid CRPG on the market\u2014and after going through the playtest, I was rendered\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/as-a-pathfinder-2e-sicko-im-excited-for-starfinder-afterlight-after-playing-an-hour-of-its-playtest-but-epictellers-has-a-lot-of-work-to-do-before-demo-time-this-summer\/\">cautiously optimistic<\/a>. What I played was very rough around the edges, missing features, customisation, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>I shan&#8217;t say its official demo, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3245640\/Starfinder_Afterlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">which is now out on Steam<\/a>, has quelled my apprehension completely. It has, however, left me feeling like Epictellers can pull this thing together with enough polish, given the <em>marked <\/em>improvement from the playtest I enjoyed in March.<\/p>\n<p>First up, the bad: It still runs terribly, and doesn&#8217;t have any graphical settings at all yet, animations for combat are a touch clunky, and you can&#8217;t make a custom character\u2014which is a huge draw of any CRPG, though you can pick from three custom premades. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a fairly linear demo, and while I&#8217;d be a fool to expect the breadth of something like Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3, it&#8217;d still be nice to have a little more space to roam, meaningful NPCs to talk to, and a side quest or two. As it stands, the demo&#8217;s just a series of hallways connected by story, with a few choices to make.<\/p>\n<p>But in comparison to what I played in March? It&#8217;s clear that the polishing <em>is<\/em> being done. The demo opens with a gorgeously-animated intro that sets the space-swashbuckling tone well, as your ship is assailed by the dreaded Corpse Fleet. Your captain, Khali, heroically tackles their leader off a ledge and leaves you to defend a set of escape pods carrying your crewmates. <\/p>\n<p>You crash-land on the backwater of Akiton, and mysteriously, five years have passed\u2014not a terrible setup for an RPG by any means, and much improved by the fact you immediately meet Newbon&#8217;s effusive and peppy bug priest with a baby strapped to his chest. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;s traditional for Shirren, the little guy&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<figure role=\"gallery\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-1.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-2.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-3.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-4.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-5.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-6.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-7.jpg\" alt=\"A series of images showing Starfinder: Afterlight, including dialogue, cutscenes, and combat.\" \/><figcaption><small role=\"credit\">Epictellers Entertainment<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<p>And while this game chugs, performance issues can be fixed\u2014the more important part is its aesthetic, which is impressive for a studio of this size. Character portraits are lovingly rendered, the comic-book style cutscenes are cute, and Akiton is bright and colourful, plus will look measurably more so when Epictellers figures out how to get it running at a reasonable framerate. <\/p>\n<p>The voice-acting, for a smaller-scale project, is also charming, if a touch inconsistent, but there&#8217;s a great marriage of voice talent and spectacular character design for your companions, so the focus is in the right place. <\/p>\n<p>The UI is much-improved, carving up character features and abilities into neat little icons, while also tucking plenty of info for min-maxers like me into nested tooltips. And while the combat in the demo is tethered to low-level play, which isn&#8217;t exciting in any TTRPG system, I can vouch that it <em>will <\/em>get more interesting as time goes on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/board-games\/after-dming-a-bunch-of-d-and-d-5e-swapping-over-to-pathfinder-2e-has-felt-like-hanging-out-with-a-cool-ttrpg-uncle-that-lets-you-smoke-weed\/\">As a Pathfinder 2e freak<\/a>, the three action system has made an evangelist out of me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll need a better tutorial to pull in the layman, mind. I was merrily applying +1 status bonuses and avoiding the dreaded multiple attack penalty because I&#8217;m already deeply familiar with the system. As it stands, though, the game awkwardly hucks a bunch of missable tooltips at you in the right corner of the screen. I don&#8217;t usually advocate for pop-ups, but given how crunchy Starfinder 2e can be, it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to hold your hand. Or, at the very least, let you know that spamming attacks won&#8217;t help you. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to properly tell the trajectory of any given, early project like this\u2014game development is a monstrously complicated business and I&#8217;m working with two data points\u2014but I wouldn&#8217;t bet against Epictellers being able to get this thing ship-shape in time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"96d7f4b2-adf3-11f1-a331-15706c61486a\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape-8.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"96d7f4b2-adf3-11f1-a331-15706c61486a\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-usd1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping a close eye on Starfinder: Afterlight for a few reasons\u2014firstly, I&#8217;m a Pathfinder 2e sicko, and Starfinder 2e works on a ton of the same rules. Secondly, because I love a good CRPG, and thirdly, because this game has a surprising amount of financial and voice acting heft behind it. After getting a surprising \u20ac828,164 (around $960,000) funded out of a humble \u20ac75,000 ask on Kickstarter, the game managed to snag Red Dead Redemption&#8217;s Arthur Morgan for its narration. It also just so happens to be getting voice direction from Neil Newbon, who you might know as Astarion from Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3\u2014and the man&#8217;s voicing an interstellar priest bug, which is as charming as it sounds. Alongside some promising key art, I&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/starfinder-afterlight-a-crpg-based-on-one-of-my-favourite-systems-that-pulled-in-almost-1-million-on-kickstarter-is-starting-to-look-ship-shape\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[748,34],"class_list":["post-1690759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Starfinder: Afterlight, a CRPG based on one of my favourite systems that pulled in almost $1 million on Kickstarter, is starting to look ship-shape | Arcader 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