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==Reception==
In September 1994, ''[[White Wolf (magazine)|White Wolf]]'' gave the game a 3.5 out of 5 rating and said the game "offers a lot of material in a beautiful package".<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?articleid=16993|title=Review: Jovian Chronicles - RPGnet RPG Game Index|website=index.rpg.net|access-date=2019-07-19}}</ref>
''Jovian Chronicles'' was featured on the front cover of the March-April 1997 edition of [[Pyramid (magazine)|Pyramid]]. A sneak preview of the game was offered inside the same issue.
In the February 1998 edition of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'', [[Rick Swan]] reviewed both the ''Jovian Chronicles'' setting and the ''[[Heavy Gear]]'' setting (also published by Dream Pod 9), and praised the high production values: "Both are beautiful games, into which a lot of effort has been invested." Swan admired the "Silhouette" game system, calling it "the smartest set of universal rules this side of the [[GURPS]] game." But he criticized the combat rules, which he called "more work than fun", and he found little to be excited about in the setting, saying, "There's nothing terribly interesting going on here, and the game's ambitions seem awfully modest compared to the wide screen spectacle of ''[[Trinity (role-playing game)|Trinity]]''." Given the setting's emphasis on robot combat, Swan believed that "''Jovian Chronicles'' aims at players more interested in hardware than human beings." He concluded with an ambivalent shrug: "Other than the lifeless settings, I couldn’t find anything seriously wrong with... ''Jovian Chronicles''. But I couldn’t find much to be excited about either."<ref name="dragon">{{cite journal|last=Swan|first=Rick|authorlink=Rick Swan|date=February 1998|title=Roleplaying Reviews: To the Stars!|url=|journal=[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]|publisher=[[TSR (company)|TSR, Inc.]]|volume=|issue=244|pages=101-104|via=}}</ref>
A review of the ''Ship of the Fleet, Vol. 4'' — a supplement describing six Venusian ships of the ''Jovian Chronicles'' line — that appeared in the August 11, 2000 issue of ''
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