Descent-y shooter Overload launches May 31st

In this ever-shifting fashionable world the place up turns into down turns into left and earlier than it you’re all types of misplaced in life, perhaps extra Descent will help us reorient ourselves. Or Overload, the brand new six-degrees-of-freedom spaceship shooter from the co-founders of Descent creators Parallax Software. It’s doing Descent-y capturing in a contemporary means, sending gamers into sci-fi warrens to blast bots and zap-pow to victory. Following a crowdfunding marketing campaign and a yr in early entry, it’ll lastly launch on May 31st, builders Revival Productions introduced at this time. And it appears to be like a little bit one thing like this.

See? Descent-y.

Along with a singleplayer story marketing campaign, Overload boasts a problem mode and aggressive multiplayer. And VR help for folks with stomachs made from metal; Descent all the time twisted my melon even simply on a display. Revival Productions plan to launch a degree editor after launch too.

Descent co-creators Matt Toschlog and Mike Kulas launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign for Overload again in February 2016, then took the sport to Steam Early Access in March 2017.

This is sort of separate to Descent: Underground, the latest multiplayer-focused tackle Descent that was made by individuals who weren’t concerned with the unique video games however have licensed the identify.

Overload will correctly launch for Windows, Mac, and Linux on May 31st by way of Steam and GOG. The worth will go up from its present early entry quantity of £19/€23/$25 to $35.

You can get a broad sense for the sport in
year-old “playable teaser” demo.