The spacecraft Everspace 2 departs today for its scheduled mission through early access area. For the sequel to their rogue spaceflight game, Rockfish Games is cracking Everspace 2 into an open-world RPG. The full match is expected somewhere in 2022, but you can immediately jump into the cockpit if you want to see how it goes.
The original Everspace also went through early access, so it’s a well-known flight plan for the developers. Now that they are looking for a bigger game with more complexity, Rockfish says they are looking forward to getting feedback from fans as the development on the sequel continues.
“The initial version is good for at least 25 hours of play, while pilots are introduced to Everspace 2’s most important game mechanics of space combat, reconnaissance, mining, puzzle solving, travel, trade, itemization, crafting, ship customization, player and companionship. -advantages. as well as five different player class subclasses, ”they say.
During its early access, which Rockfish estimates at 12-18 months, Everspace 2 expects to add new content in quarterly versions. These updates are planned to bring more of everything, it sounds, from new galaxies to new enemies, ship subclasses, enemies, jobs, and factions.
Although it was a different style game, Brendan Caldwell (RPS in pieces) says in RPS’s Everspace review that it was a “better than average dogfight sim”. It was also quite beautiful. The sequel in that tradition seems to continue as nothing else.
You can get it on Steam Early Access and GOG Games In Development for £ 32 / $ 40 / € 38.