Cute area survival sandbox Astroneer isn’t removed from the end line, say builders System Era Softworks, it’ll be bounding out of early entry in only a few months – February sixth, particularly. The studio have some large plans for the discharge – the launch model will embrace a “new exploration-focused adventure”, taking you to new planets stuffed with attention-grabbing new issues to poke round, or be poked by. The launch model will even help cross-play with Xbox One people, hopefully guaranteeing a wholesome and properly oxygenated player-base for some time. A stardate trailer lies under.
Just final month, our man among the many stars Fraser Brown known as Astroneer one of the 20 best survival games on PC. He praised its recent feeling – reasonably than work your manner up from nothing, you begin out as a flowery space-scientist. Instead of making an attempt to assemble an air-tight log cabin earlier than your oxygen runs out, you’re learning worlds, establishing outposts and doing correct exploration for exploration’s sake, not since you desperately want a brand new form of useful resource earlier than you die. It apparently works particularly properly in co-op too, which makes Xbox and PC cross-play all of the nicer.
The remaining model of the game will comprise one other seven worlds to discover, with new alien buildings to puzzle out and new harmful flora that may even be fauna, as a result of area is bizarre. A bit extra of every part, actually. Today’s replace (patch notes here on Steam) consists of one new planet, apparently a testbed for a brand new terrain system. This will apparently be the ultimate early entry model launched earlier than launch. System Era are formally going into their isolation pods/hyperbolic time chambers to hammer away on the game till launch. Start the countdown.
Astroneer releases on February sixth, and the total model will value $30. If you don’t thoughts being some type of astro-pioneer (ooh, I get it now), the early access version on Steam is at present discounted all the way down to £12.59/€15.99/$15.99, with the value set to extend on November 19th.
