Developer Shiro Games has had hit after hit, especially when it comes to strategy and survival games with the likes of Northgard, Wartales, and Dune: Spice Wars under its belt. Now, the developer is tackling space once more, this time with the brand-new SpaceCraft, a massively multiplayer management and building game launching in 2025.
SpaceCraft is a management game quite unlike anything else, combining the freedom of the best sandbox games with the intricacies of building and strategy games, so Shiro Games is no doubt the right team for the job. In other words, it’s as if Satisfactory, Space Engineers, and Stellaris had a baby.
As an interstellar MMO game, you’ll have a whole open-world galaxy at your fingertips, teeming with things to discover, alliances to forge, and resources to extract and exploit. That’s not even the most exciting bit though, as SpaceCraft actually lets you design and engineer your own spacecraft. Pretty crafty name, eh? These starships can be used not just as transport but also as a base of operations among the stars.
Speaking of a base of operations, like all great crafting games, you’re able to construct headquarters planet-side too. Using various housing modules and machinery, you can build complex automation akin to Satisfactory which opens up even more building possibilities.
Now, it wouldn’t be a Shiro Games experience if it didn’t involve managing complicated relationships and scenarios. Forging connections will be key to your survival and success among the stars, so joining the various political, military, and financial factions will give you unique benefits and more. Naturally, you can also stir rivalries. You could become an intergalactic freelance freight hauler, team up with Corpos to create monopolies, or take on challenging missions to take home a big payday. This is backed up by an ever-evolving, real-time economy that informs your galaxy-wide trade and communications.
Revealed today with an inspiring (albeit vague) cinematic trailer, SpaceCraft will launch sometime in 2025 on Steam. You can wishlist the game here.
Bringing together the captivating automation and construction of the best building games and a huge shared world, SpaceCraft looks like one of the most promising multiplayer games of next year.
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