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Honeycomb: The World Beyond is above-ground Subnautica with bioengineering and hoverboardsMeet exotic new lifeforms! Or make them!
Meet exotic new lifeforms! Or make them!
Image credit:Frozen Way
Image credit:Frozen Way
As in Unknown Worlds’ survival sim, you’ll search various biomes for resources, build solar-powered habitats on stilts with nice, wide windows, and gradually amass a database of local animals and plants. Unlike in Subnautica, you won’t be constantly at risk of suffocation.
Honeycomb: The World Beyond – Official Gameplay TrailerWatch on YouTube
Honeycomb: The World Beyond – Official Gameplay Trailer
It’s hard to tell whether Honeycomb’s premise of being a botanically-minded pioneer makes room for any commentary on real-life colonisation or selective breeding. The Steam page copy suggests not. According to the last devblog, Hennessy’s “time is now, and the world is full of new things for her to discover. It’s time to embrace this boundless space, leaving behind her symbolic cradle.” Which sounds very Manifest Destiny to me.
One thing, at least, is certain: you can build a hoverboard. Here’s theSteam page- if you like the sound of this, you might enjoyEarthtongue.
