Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock is an indie atmospheric adventure game developed by Red Herring Labs. Players take control of Powell, a space trader who crashlands on the Desert planet of ‘Deadrock’ and must now navigate through the wrecks of two starships and the aforementioned planet hoping to find a way to escape.

However, even the most veteran space explorers may need a little help now and again. For that reason we created the Official Morningstar Walkthrough. (continue reading…)

The immersive sci-fi adventure game, Morningstar: Descent To Deadrock is available now for PC and Mac on Steam, The Humble Store and the Phoenix Online Store with a demo available now. (continue reading…)

Art and music generally go hand-in-hand when trying to evoke certain feelings and moods in the player’s subconscious and Morningstar is no exception. Paradoxically, while the planet of Deadrock is devoid of all life the sights and sounds are anything but dead. Both help to enhance the feeling of being alone on a barren hunk of rock floating around in an infinite cosmos. (continue reading…)

Morningstar is what is known as an “escape game”. What this means is that you are trapped somewhere and your primary goal is to find a way to escape your current situation. In this case you’re stranded on a deserted planet with no means of getting off it from the start. That’s the catalyst for exploring your surroundings and figuring out what to do to get the ship back up and running. Otherwise there wouldn’t be much of a story. What you do find out while wandering around, though, add significantly to the plot. (continue reading…)

Morningstar was originally released as a Flash game in May 2009 on Newgrounds and Kongregate. While a lot has remained the same, in particular the story and most of the locations, just as much has changed between then and the upcoming updated release. We’ll be taking a look at these differences here. (continue reading…)

Last year we celebrated Sierra’s Gabriel Knight series with the launch of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Gabriel Knight – Sins of the Fathers. Readers may also recall our Gabriel Knight countdownfor the 20th Anniversary Edition launch which saw the release of a new short story ‘The Temptation’, written by Jane Jensen herself. ‘The Temptation’ is the first addition to the Gabriel Knight lore since Sierra On-Line’s final adventure game, Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. (continue reading…)

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Morningstar uses a first-person interface, meaning that the entire game is seen through the eyes of our protagonist Powell. More precisely, it’s seen through the visor of his suit’s helmet display system. As such, you never see what he looks like and you’re only able to tell that he’s male by the voice-over. Without it, Powell could be either gender. It would be hard to figure this out otherwise even if it was in a third-person viewpoint as the visor is darkened from the outside as shown in Captain Novak’s sprite sitting in the ship’s cockpit. (continue reading…)