Rico Banderas is a cocky but good-hearted smuggler, accompanied by his sassy AI companion Sam. While on a routine cargo run in his aging freighter The Sapphire, Rico is suddenly attacked by mysterious raiders. His ship is damaged and he's forced to make an emergency crash landing on a strange new planet.

Rico finds himself stranded in a lush valley inhabited by exotic beast-like humanoids called Beastkin. Though resembling animals with fur, claws, tails, and animal ears, they walk upright and po...