Command fleets or pilot mouthwatering starships in Nullspace, a strategy game with a "unique" take on the Fermi Paradox

If you privation thing wrecked, bash it yourself

Tasty-looking abstraction games capable the ambiance nowadays similar outer motorboat debris, but possibly you'll find country successful your weirdly adapted magnetic sportfishing nett for 1 much - Kaigan's Nullspace. I came crossed it successful yesterday's Indie Fan Fest stream, and I rather similar the chopped of its torpedo bays.

Nullspace grabs maine for a mates of reasons. One is its "retrofuturistic universe", which strikes maine arsenic some sleek and cosy. It's benignant of chibi Homeworld. The kitbashed ships travel live with swivelling turrets and manoeuvring jets, but thing astir the mode they're proportioned, patterned and lit besides makes maine deliberation of freshly piped barroom icing. I besides rather similar the Star Fox-style jabbering heads of portion commanders successful the bottommost corner.

The different happening I similar is that this is 1 of those perchance borked genre hybrids, similar Shiny Entertainment's Sacrifice oregon Activision's aged Battlezone reboot. On the 1 hand, it's a real-time strategy crippled with planetary bases, assorted resources to gather, a prime of fleet formations, and the enactment of either utilizing asteroids for screen oregon blowing them up for disruption. On the other, it's a dogfighter, with the quality to prehend power of immoderate vessel and hose the badniks with your ain 2 thumbs.

The effect whitethorn beryllium to beryllium much akin to Dynasty Warriors oregon a punch-up successful an Airfix mill than the Battle of New Caprica. There are a mates of moments successful the trailer erstwhile ships barge into each different similar buying trolleys. But I bash similar the bustle of it all.

There's a communicative to reckon with, erstwhile you're not making battleships kiss. It channels some "the Golden Age of Sci-Fi" and "deep existential themes". According to the Steam page, you volition "lead oregon situation factions similar the antiauthoritarian Hegen, the transhumanist Dominion, and the resourceful Junkers arsenic they vie for endurance and dominance." Apparently the crippled contains a "unique instrumentality connected the Fermi Paradox", this being the contention that we truly should person tally into immoderate precocious extraterrestrials by present fixed the magnitude of worldly determination is successful outer space. Interested to larn more, I guess.

As for those factions, they enactment maine a small successful caput of Sins of a Solar Empire, though they don't look rather arsenic vicious. Here's the blurb successful full:

• The Junkers: Survivors and scavengers, the Junkers unrecorded connected the fringes of space, salvaging remnants of humanity's past to physique a precarious future. Their resourcefulness and ingenuity let them to accommodate to immoderate situation, but their distrust of centralized authorization makes them fiercely independent--and hard to unify.
• The Hegen: A powerful, militaristic faction rooted successful subject and order. The Hegen values contented and hierarchy, believing that humanity's salvation lies successful strict power and unwavering loyalty. Their monolithic fleets and technological prowess marque them a unit to beryllium reckoned with, but their rigidity whitethorn unsighted them to alternate solutions.
• The Dominion: Visionaries, innovators, and seekers of progress, the Dominion is driven by the content that humanity's improvement lies successful embracing caller ideas and technologies. They spot accidental successful the chaos, pushing boundaries to forge a brighter future, though their relentless pursuit of advancement often clashes with the values of different factions.

All told: I tin excavation it. But bash I excavation it much than Nebulous: Fleet Command? I tin spot representations of gravity wells successful the trailer, there, but I uncertainty it's simulating rather arsenic overmuch stuff. Nullspace hath yet nary merchandise day beyond "coming soon".