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The Hardspace: Shipbreaker dev’s new game is a sci-fi deckbuilder with Battlestar Galactica vibesEarthless is entering early access next year

Earthless is entering early access next year

Image credit:Team17

Image credit:Team17

A small grid-based battle taking place between insectoid aliens and human ships in Earthless

It’s obviously a tad more complicated in practise, or you wouldn’t need to build a deck at all. Not only are you engaging in some classic grid-based combat with what are described as mysterious interstellar enemies, but your deck of tactical cards is also deployed to manage the crew and make difficult decisions. You can imagine you’d face a bunch of those, what with making your way across a vast and unknown galaxy after your solar system’s sun exploded. But since it’s a roguelike I spose you’ll get multiple goes at making them.

Earthless | Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube

Earthless | Announcement Trailer

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There’s not a whole lot else to say about Earthless right now, but being in charge of a fleet and making decisions that make or break the suvival of literally all of humanity really does feel likeBattlestar Galactica, doesn’t it? The remake from the 2000s. I think the teaser trailer is harking back to the fleet making lightspeed jumps, too. I can also say that Earthless is an early access game that’ll be coming out some time next year, and that if you look atthe Steam pageyou can get a glimpse of some of the cards (including stuff like Warm Up The Engines and EMP Blast) and the mysterious alien enemies, which look like big gross ticks.

Also worth noting is that Blackbird have form with cool writing, so I’d be interested in the aforementioned ethical choices. Shame it’s a deckbuilder, which I am not good at and do not enjoy!