I grew up enjoying DOS-era area adventures. From Psi 5 Trading Company to Blake Stone, Star Control and past. Hyperspace Delivery Service appears like most of all of them without delay. Making its Steam simply entry debut yesterday, Zotnip’s multi-genre area sim additionally been round on Itch for some time now. It’s half space-trading sim, half crew administration, half area shooter, half Wolfenstein-derived FPS and all powerfully nostalgic. Take a peek at its universe of chunky pixelated delights beneath.
Hyperspace Delivery Service is the most recent from Zotnip, creator of the offbeat (however equally DOS-styled) spacey point-and-click journey Bik. While Bik might have seemed a bit like a scrappy shareware game, this appears just like the sort of factor that might have warranted a large cardboard field, not less than three 3.5″ floppy disks and a chunky handbook dense with evocative line-art and lore. While nobody a part of it appears particularly deep, there’s sufficient layers of familiarity right here to instantly seize my consideration, particularly these EGA-ish planetary pictures – these are some tasty pixels.
Developer Zotnip has broad plans for Hyperspace Delivery Service whereas it’s in early entry. Depending on gross sales, participant curiosity and suggestions, they hope to incorporate much more minigames (and improve the number of the prevailing ones), add a ship and participant improve system, a status system, on-line leaderboards and extra. Nothing is about in stone, nevertheless, and Zotnip considers the present model largely feature-complete, albeit in want of a little bit extra balancing. The remaining model is deliberate to launch in one other six to 12 months, and can launch for $10-15.
Hyperspace Delivery Service is accessible in early entry now on Steam for £6.11/€6.96/$8.49 (after a 10% low cost) and $10 on Itch.
