Soar Ship Seems Like FTL Mixed With Sea Of Thieves

Swedish growth studio Souvenir Video games has revealed its new title, Soar Ship, an formidable sci-fi co-op journey that appears like FLT meets Sea of Thieves and Starfield. Whereas gamers will have the ability to discover the cosmos and search out bounties on alien worlds, the twist in Soar Ship is that they’re going to even be teaming as much as function a spaceship, maintain it functioning, and participate in dogfights all through the galaxy. This co-op half kinds a significant a part of the gameplay loop, as gamers will take turns participating in varied roles, whereas additionally working in direction of a standard purpose of constructing it out alive with as a lot loot as potential.

“Nobody journey is identical, and issues typically flip into chaos out of nowhere,” Filip Coulianos, recreation director at Souvenir Video games, stated in a press assertion. “One second you’re chilling and scavenging for elements, the subsequent you are desperately attempting to repair the gas leak on the skin of your ship as projectiles from enemy ships fly round your head and your captain is shouting to get strapped in as you attempt to escape the sector. We have tried to construct a recreation that brings the perfect of the sci-fi area fantasy collectively in a single co-op expertise, and we won’t wait to see folks soar in!”

Different key options in Soar Ship embody “modular exploration” via a number of jumps into uncharted territory, whereas randomized occasions and modifiers like photo voltaic flares and asteroid showers will maintain gamers on their toes. Gamers can exit their ship to restore the outer deck, discover the floor of an asteroid, or use their jetpack to fly into enemy vessels, and Souvenir Video games says all of this may be performed seamlessly and with out loading screens or transitions. The studio was based by a number of business veterans and at the moment has 12 folks engaged on Soar Ship.

“We’re designing Soar Ship to rigorously tread the stability between immersion and enjoyable on the subject of area exploration,” Souvenir Video games CEO Daniel Kaplan stated. “We really feel the core gameplay is stable, however we additionally wish to contain the gamers and make a recreation they may wish to maintain taking part in, which is why we will probably be coming into early entry on PC and Xbox.”

Souvenir Video games is aiming to launch Soar Ship on the finish of 2024.