The Pathfinder game on steam is produced by another company entirely. Paizo licensed their content to Owlcat, who happened to have a passion for Pathfinder.
The likelihood that another game company decides they want to make a Starfinder game is remote, particularly given Starfinder's relatively low popularity.
You can look into the Starfinder Alexa voice game, that might help you out.
But I would seriously recommend finding an online game and just playing remote, especially given COVID.
But some time ago Owlcat was apparently looking for someone with Sci3nce Fiction experience.
Interesting!
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I would be 100% down and would pre-order if it looked even passable, let alone good!
After playing 99% through Pathfinder: Kingmaker, I think that Starfinder would have actually been a better choice for them than doing a second PF campaign in Wrath of the Righteous. Starfinder is infinitely more balanced and less swingy than the PF1 that they use, and their absurd take on sneak attacks wouldn't be as jarring (since there are none).
I guess what I'm saying is, bring on the Starfinder CRPG. We deserve it. Less popular you say? Well, Planescape was a fringe D&D setting, and Black Isle created one of the best RPGs ever made with Planescape: Torment.
Now that I think about it, Owlcat will probably want to wait for Horizons in the Vast to be complete so they can do "Kingmaker, but in space."
Technically there's the SF alexa though... Technically lol
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While I would LOVE to see a Starfinder PC game I hope it will not be a simple Pathfinder:Kingmaker reskin, but instead his own game (game tpye, mechanic etc.).
So instead of making it a top-down party rpg like PF:Kingmaker make it a third person game where you control one character direct and only give orders to your companions (like in Mass Effect or Kotor).
Also Space Combat has to be a important (aka polished) part of it.
And of course it has to be done by a studio in Frankfurt Main, Germany, so I can apply as a Junior 3D Artist. :)
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I hate to disappoint you, but Kingmaker also uses 3D environments (like most games these days) - they just put the camera on a fixed isometric position. ;)
And there is no real cost difference between building 3D assets for use in a isometric view then from a third-person view. ;)
It's just a matter of workflows and tell the artist what you need.
And I don't talk about a CoD action shooter, but more a classic RPG, but from another perspective (like KOTOR or DA:O)
I'd certainly be very interested in it. I think as a setting I probably prefer Starfinder to Golarion, personally.
Starfinder might not have great brand recognition but there's certainly a market for SciFi RPGs.
I will say this; personally, I absolutely hate faithful adaptations of PnP tabletop game rules to video games. I found Kingmaker utterly unplayable & had to mod the living hell out of it to get through it, and it was still like pulling teeth at some points.
In my ideal version, it would play like something like a Mass Effect or an Outer Worlds.
To me the rules & mechanics should always be viewed as abstractions for the sake of facilitating gameplay. Spell slots & action economy work for the table top, they're like pulling teeth in a video game. My two cents.
Having said all that, I also recognize that Owlcat is a fairly small studio & would be working with a limited budget so even something on the scale of the Outer Worlds would likely be outside their reach, so I'd be willing to bite the bullet & wait to play the game(not necessarily wait to buy it, but wait to play it) until it has a healthy modding community to get it to something I'd consider playable.
I will say this; personally, I absolutely hate faithful adaptations of PnP tabletop game rules to video games. I found Kingmaker utterly unplayable & had to mod the living hell out of it to get through it, and it was still like pulling teeth at some points.
In my ideal version, it would play like something like a Mass Effect or an Outer Worlds.
To me the rules & mechanics should always be viewed as abstractions for the sake of facilitating gameplay. Spell slots & action economy work for the table top, they're like pulling teeth in a video game. My two cents.
Having said all that, I also recognize that Owlcat is a fairly small studio & would be working with a limited budget so even something on the scale of the Outer Worlds would likely be outside their reach, so I'd be willing to bite the bullet & wait to play the game(not necessarily wait to buy it, but wait to play it) until it has a healthy modding community to get it to something I'd consider playable.
Your opinions and tastes are 100% valid. I'm just completely the opposite! I had to to wait until the Turn Based Mod was out before I could bring myself to play PF Kingmaker.
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Ixal you are not wrong but also not 100% correct with your workload assumption.
I'm a 3D Artist who created several assets for games over the last years, I also studied digital art and work in the computer games industry. So I think I have a good understanding of the workload and flows.
Sure creating a TPS game is different from a isometric game, but the workflows are basically the same these days. Both use 3D characters, rigg them, animate them etc. The workload depends more on the art style you decided to aim for. If you want to use ultra-realistic graphics you will have more work to do then if you are aiming for a stylized look. (extreme examples would be Wolcen (isometric) vs. Deep Rock Galactic (T/FPS), the effort in regards of graphic quality and animation in Wolcen is far greater then in DRG).
It's all a matter of what do you want to achiev and how good your project management is.
And yes the 3rd persond camera changes the ways the game is played and everybody has his preference, mine is a more action oriented cinematic game, where I don't have to controll every movement of every companion (something which I also don't do on the table^^), yours more the party-management style, nothing wrong with it. That's why there are different games on the market. ;)
I only stated which I would prefer for Starfinder.
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I did not even think about a Mass Effect like game. 100% down! But to be honest I would be happy with any starfinder game. Even an old school Doom clone.
My issue is that while running it in real time it doesn't feel like I'm playing a game so much as just running a simulation & trying to keep up with it while having no idea what nonsense is going on, and running it turn-based(which along with the mods is what I ended up doing) the whole thing just slows to a crawl. It doesn't matter if there's a win button or not, the process of actually playing this type of gameplay in single player is not something I find enjoyable.
The mechanics of a tabletop game are always my least favorite aspect of it; they're a thing that exists to facilitate it while the real enjoyment comes from socializing with friends & roleplaying. Even if rolls go poorly, which can be frustrating, even rage inducing, the social aspect of it makes up for it.
When you don't have that, a straight adaptation of the rules is just not fun for me. I can get passed that using tools to ease the pain of playing if the story is worth it; as it happens I found Owlcat's take on Kingmaker to be more enjoyable story-wise than the actual AP.
But when it comes to the game play, I'd rather be playing something more in line with a dragon age or even an elder scrolls(or for starfinder, mass effect/fallout/outer worlds) game as those are just more fun to play. They aren't true to Pathfinder, certainly, but again, I view the mechanics as abstractions to facilitate gameplay, not accurate representations of the physics of the world, so that doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is setting & story, and the mechanics should be what's most useful for exploring that in a given medium.
I'm just stating a preference. I fully expect that should Owlcat make a Starfinder game it will be a direct facsimile of the rules in as much as Kingmaker was, and I'm just going to have to suck it up. Which I'm willing to do, because of my love of the setting.
If I were to have an out & out deal breaker it would be player races being limited to the seven core races, though even then, modders can solve that problem. Gotta get my half-orcs in.
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I think with some clever gameplay shenanigans, you could make a more "fluent" game (similar to ME or DAO) while staying true to the (Spirit of the) Starfinder rules.
Sure it would take additional work, but I think it would be worth it. As FormerFiend said, tabletop rules don't really fit a pc game (other medium, other rules).