gamescom gave us our first deep look at Jump Space (formerly Jump Ship), and during the Future Games Show we saw our first deep dive on gameplay, as well as an awesome announcement – it’ll be heading our way to Early Access on September 19th for Steam and Xbox Series X|S. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, here’s a quick snippet:
Manage Your Jump Ship
Upgrade and customise your ship as you face off against the challenges of space exploration, and scavenge resources to ensure your survival. Reinforce your defences, adjust your energy output for speed or bolster your ship’s attack capabilities – the choice is yours.
Immerse Yourself in Space
Experience fluid gameplay as you switch from steering your ship out of an asteroid field to jetpacking towards an enemy vessel to sabotage its core. Seamlessly transition between exploration, combat and traversal.
Improvise and Adapt; Together
Go on missions with your friends and take on roles, from piloting to engineering and field exploration. Work together to overcome enemy attacks, extinguish fires on the command deck or adjust your ship’s power grid on the fly. There are no set classes in Jump Space, improvise and decide how you want to engage.
The team also had a message for their would-be space travelers about the upcoming launch:
We are still thrilled that so many of you joined for our Next Fest demo!
Since then, we’ve been hard at work adding as many additional features and further polish to the Early Access launch as possible. You can expect improvements to moment to moment gameplay, persistent progression, new enemies, new weapons, a new player ship, public server browser, text chat – just to name a few.
Between now and September 19th, we will be posting a more detailed roadmap on what made it into our launch build, and what features will come after – both for this year and beyond.
The price will be revealed at the same time as the roadmap, so don’t worry about us forgetting.
You will be pleasantly surprised!
I’m excited for this one, and the Keepsake Crew seems to be combining the best parts of several of my favorite games and genres into one awesome multiplayer experience. The gameplay systems will undoubtedly evolve over Early Access, but what’s here and what I saw in the demo are already a blast of a gameplay loop. Best of all, we won’t have to wait very long to jump back in.
Stay tuned for all of the news for Jump Space and all the other awesome games coming this year and beyond right here at GamingTrend.com!
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