Startenders is a sci-fi bartending game where you mix strange drinks for alien customers at a space academy while plotting your escape home.
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Startenders: Intergalactic Bartending is a simulation game from Foggy Box Games, published by Yogscast LTD. After being abducted by mistake, you end up enrolled at a bartending school in space and have to keep serving until you find a way back to Earth. It was released on the Meta Horizon Store on March 17, 2022.
How it plays
You slice, shake and pour odd ingredients, run them through peculiar machines and hand the results to alien patrons. Progress unlocks more machines to build and stranger ingredients to experiment with.
- A story campaign with full voice acting.
- Custom drinks that you invent and name yourself, which customers can then order.
- Bright locations spread across the galaxy, plus a habitat where you can relax between shifts.
- Daily Play, which ranks you on leaderboards shared by all players.
- Endless Mode, added in an update, for open-ended mixing either for a leaderboard score or at your own pace.
Comfort
Meta rates it comfortable for most people. The store lists support for playing sitting, standing or at room scale. It works with controllers or hand tracking.
Platforms and what to know before buying
- Price: $14.99 on the Meta Horizon Store.
- Headsets: Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S, Meta Quest Pro and Meta Quest 2.
- Internet: not required.
- Ads: no in-app ads.
- Early access: no.
- Languages: English.
- Age rating: 16+.
