SpaceCraft is an announced sandbox project that takes us above the heavens, into the expanses of space where we will turn from average explorers into leaders of galactic corporations.
The team from the Shiro Games studio, known for titles like Northgard and Dune: Spice Wars, takes us deep into space with his next game. Their new project SpaceCraft it arrives in early access form 20. 5.and from what they revealed to us, the game promises to eat up a lot of your free time if you’re into logistics.
SpaceCraft is a massive multiplayer sandbox that looks like a combination of the visual identity of No Man’s Sky and the economic depth and logistics that can be seen in Factorio or EVE Online. In the game, we will be able to move seamlessly from space to the surface of the planet, and our influence will not be limited to just one planetary system.
The focus of the game lies on the industry and the automation of the entire process. We will have to refine and process the collected resources to make them actually useful as components for our ships. Although we are starting with one ship, the goal is to start managing entire fleets of drones and cargo ships through the expansion of our industrial empire. As a fan of optimizing fictitious logistics chains and anything related to space, this sounds very tempting to me.
The multiplayer aspect of the game revolves around player-founded corporations. These players can then share roles with others, coordinate mass operations with them, or enter into contracts to beat their competition in the free market of space colonization. But the option of being alone with your monopoly on planetary resources still exists.