New open-world co-op survival game coming to Steam in August packs gruelling FPS combat, survival, and factory sim gaming in a hostile alien world
StarRupture is an upcoming Steam Early Access co-op survival game that promises an impressive blend of FPS, survival, and base building mechanics and is planned for launch later this year.
StarRupture takes place in a dystopian future where governments send even petty criminals to alien worlds to slave away for corporations. In StarRupture, you are one such expendable individual sent to the hostile planet of Arcadia-7 to explore and extract valuable mineral resources in the name of Earth's mega corporations.
StarRupture gameplay
StarRupture has not yet been released on Steam, but the game studio has shared a number of details about what to expect from the gameplay and visuals of the upcoming survival-craft shooter. For starters, the vast open world players will serve their sentence out on is both harsh and beautiful, with everything from lush vegetation to sulphurous hot springs.
Arcadia-7 seems to also have a dark history, with environmental clues, like abandoned structures and hidden secrets, feeding players bread crumbs about the planet's former inhabitants and what led to their demise. The previews we've seen from StarRapture's numerous development updates on Steam and the game's website show off expansive automation, akin to The Planet Crafter, mixed with first-person exploration, resource gathering, and brutal combat against hordes of crustacean- and bug-like alien enemies that inhabit the planet.
Aside from the hostile local fauna, Arcadia-7 will also be trying its hardest to kill you, with intermittent waves of fire from the planet's star, Ruptura, which wipe the planet's surface clean and force life to begin anew.
StarRupture will reportedly go into early access in August, although it's unclear whether that will be the full early access Steam release or a more limited early test. It does seem to be quite far into the development cycle, though, so it would not be surprising to see the game launch in a mostly playable state. Creepy Jar already has a lot of experience making survival games, with the highly popular Green Hell boasting many of the same multiplayer survival and crafting ideas as StarRupture, although with a totally different setting. Green Hell itself was praised for its strong storytelling, polished multiplayer gameplay, and mechanics that can both pose a challenge to survival veterans and be easily picked up by novices.
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