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Alt Shift has released a new demo for their upcoming tactical space roguelite, Crying Suns.
The game had a demo before as a way of gaining feedback from potential customers. The developers have since made drastic changes to the game’s combat based on that feedback, rendering the old demo obsolete. You can read more here, and check out a trailer above.
Alt Shift also announced that they have partnered with Humble Bundle, who will help publish the game. This won’t have any effect on the game’s Steam release or Kickstarter promises.
Here’s a rundown of the game:
When FTL meets Foundation
Crying Suns is a rogue-lite and tactical game where you explore a dying galaxy as the admiral of a space fleet. As a deep story-driven game experience, each successful run will uncover a part of the underlying truth about the fall of the galactic Empire.
The story: The epic journey of a clone
After 700 years of peace and prosperity, the Galactic Empire has suddenly been shattered into pieces. The OMNIs, god-like machines which did everything for their human masters, have mysteriously shut down. And humankind, having long since lost the ability to survive on its own, is dangerously close to extinction. But somewhere in a far corner of the Galaxy is Gehenna, a planet of ice and rock and a top-secret facility that is the pinnacle of Imperial Tech and also humanity’s last chance.
You are a clone of Admiral Ellys Idaho, a weapon fashioned from flesh, the best Imperial Admiral ever to battle in the stars and you have just been awoken on this planet by its strange and darkly-humorous Guardian, Kaliban, the last functional OMNI to exist.
Your mission: skillfully command a battleship through the Empire’s now chaotic, violent clusters ––where one wrong move could be your last–– as you try to reactivate the OMNIs and save the future of all humankind. But you must leave Gehenna now…. for time has almost run out.
Key Features:
- Space exploration in a procedurally-generated universe
- Tactical fights between battleships and their squadron fleets
- More than 300 possible story events
- A deep and dramatic storyline structured in 6 chapters
- A dark and disturbing atmosphere inspired by our favorite S-F universes (Foundation, Dune, Battlestar Galactica)
Prepare to die often, it’s a rogue-lite game… And it’s a hard one…
Crying Suns will be launching sometime later this year for Windows PC and Mac via Steam and the Humble Store.
