I’ve at all times admired how Space Engineers caught to its weapons – whereas it could have added a pair small scripted situations, it’s nonetheless only a game about constructing, with no overarching plot. Even because it exits early entry in the present day and launches in full, Keen Software’s game about being an astronaut engineer stays a real sandbox. Players bodge collectively improvised spacecraft (optionally with associates) and make their very own enjoyable. Whether that enjoyable entails solitary mining and building or multiplayer group shooter situations is as much as the gamers. See the launch trailer beneath.
Today’s launch model of the game is accompanied by a massive change-log, together with an overhaul of Survival mode plus a boatload of smaller adjustments, together with a variety of new blocks. There is a brand new fight situation referred to as Never Surrender, which duties gamers with defending a small asteroid outpost in opposition to automated drones, however even that’s open-ended. There’s a brand new situation introducing gamers to the revised survival mode, the place gamers want to fret about mining and processing sources, somewhat than simply popping a spacecraft into existence earlier than your eyes.
The new survival mode incorporates a development tree to slowly dole out new sorts of space-tech, and there’s some point out of recent encounters as properly. Some time again, the game added big spiders which have been a nasty shock for gamers bumbling round in probably the most gently paced sandbox modes, and there are some ‘pirate’ enemies scattered round to battle. It’s not a totally barren universe, however one the place you don’t should battle when you don’t really feel prefer it.
Oh, and final however not least, they’ve added ladders again into the game – an early characteristic, eliminated because of being buggy, you may as soon as extra ascend to lofty heights with out the usage of ramps or jetpacks.
Space Engineers is out now on Steam and Humble for £12.39/€13.59/$15.99, and is free to attempt for the following three days.
