Flotilla 2 jacks in to blast off

Quadrilateral Cowboy and Thirty Flights Of Loving celebrity Brendon Chung of Blendo Games has launched Flotilla 2, a VR-only sequel to 2010’s tidy turn-based tactical spaceship battler. Yes, you’ll want Rift or Vive cybergoggles if you wish to jaunt throughout area with a rag-tag group of spaceships. That leaves me out however, as somebody who likes the first one, I do nonetheless hope goggheads juice their central processing meats onerous on this.

Once once more, the core of Flotilla is turn-based tactical battles in 3D area about manoeuvring to strike at enemies’ weak factors whereas defending your individual. Spacewar!

While the primary Flotilla was a little bit of a roguelikelike spaceroad journey, jaunting throughout random encounters and occasions earlier than inevitably resulting in your dying from a deadly sickness after a set time, it feels like Flotilla 2’s construction is a bit more directed. The blurb say it has “a campaign of 100 hand-crafted levels filled with deadly mines, gravity wells, cosmic horrors, and more.” Though I can’t see for myself, as a result of I jack in with out a knowledge visor or digigloves (more durable for the megacorps to trace, yeah?).

Chung continues to be the gameboss however this time drafted assist to make these marketing campaign ranges, within the type of Aquma, Valerie Lin, ATL3Y, and Evan Hemsley. The game additionally has a degree editor to construct your individual, in addition to mod assist for brand new ships and weapons and doodads.

Flotilla 2 launched on Friday on Steam at £6.47/€8.99/$8.99, which features a 10% launch low cost.