Echoes of the Majestic is a console sci-fi survival-horror RPG written in C++. The player boards a drifting station, explores connected compartments, fights the infestation called the Growth, restores a long-range beacon, and tries to escape alive.

Project Overview

• Genre: text RPG / survival-horror
• Platform: Windows console
• Language: C++17
• Localization: currently available in Russian only
• Interface: terminal UI with ANSI colors
• Data-driven content: locations, items, enemies, logs, and most UI text are stored in data/*.txt

Main Features

• exploration of a small station map with connected rooms
• combat with several enemy types
• quest items and win-condition progression
• collectible logs that reveal the station's backstory
• ASCII station map with current-location highlight
• standalone release build with a reserve built-in copy of all text data

Screenshots

Project Structure

• src/Core - game loop, command handling, combat, progression, view-model construction
• src/UI - console rendering, decorations, map output
• src/Data - loading text assets and fallback to embedded data
• include/Entities - game entities: player, item, location, rival, log entry
• data - editable game content and text assets

Build

CMake Presets

The presets in CMakePresets.json use the NMake Makefiles generator, so they must be run from a Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt (or from a shell where the MSVC build environment has already been initialized).

Debug:

cmake --preset debug
cmake --build --preset build-debug

Release:

cmake --preset release
cmake --build --preset build-release

If cmake is not in PATH, either:

• open the project in Visual Studio, or
• run the commands from the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt, where both cmake and the MSVC toolchain are available.

Run

Debug build:

.\out\debug\majestic_station.exe

Release build:

.\out\release\majestic_station.exe

The release build can also work as a standalone .exe because the project generates a built-in reserve copy of the text data during compilation.

Command Logging

Debug builds always write a command log next to the executable.

Release builds write a log only when launched with:

.\out\release\majestic_station.exe --log-commands

The log file is created next to the .exe:

majestic_station_commands.log

Main Commands

• идти [направление]
• взять [предмет]
• использовать [предмет]
• читать [лог]
• атаковать
• осмотреть [цель]
• смотреть
• инвентарь
• статус
• цель
• карта
• помощь

English aliases are also supported: go, take, use, read, attack, inspect, look, map, help.