Developer System Period Softworks and writer Devolver Digital have revealed extra particulars concerning the upcoming follow-up to Astroneer – STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions. Particulars had been revealed via a showcase stream that clocks in at virtually 17 minutes in size, and you’ll take a look at beneath.
As you’ll anticipate from a multiplayer-focused entry within the sequence, the showcase for STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions leans fairly closely into giving us a take a look at the multiplayer gameplay. The showcase additionally options inventive director Adam Bromell offering a couple of particulars for the upcoming title, whereas additionally teasing a few of the new content material coming to Astroneer in its Megatech DLC.
“With this recreation, I didn’t wish to simply make a sequel to Astroneer,” defined Bromell within the video. “This isn’t Astroneer 2. It is a recreation that actually represents the type of on-line sandbox video games that I need System Period to be identified for, a lot in order that it’s a complete new style, and it’s a complete new title. That recreation is STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions.”
STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions has been described as a “full-blown expedition recreation” with the gameplay revolving round improvisation in addition to co-operation. Within the title, gamers are recruits on an experimental area station dubbed the ESS Starseeker. Working beneath the management of the Fronteer Power, gamers are tasked with setting off on timed missions on completely different alien worlds.
The showcase for STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions targeted on three foremost steps that gamers should undergo: gearing up for a mission, deploying on to a hostile planet, and surviving and celebrating the success of their missions. The video gave us a take a look at these three steps by showcasing a mission on planet Tephra.
Tephra itself is described as being “a lush and mysterious planet” that options huge oceans, cavernous depths to dive, and tangled jungles to navigate. By means of Tephra, System Period Softworks has additionally highlighted the truth that every planet in STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions might be hand-crafted, which is able to permit gamers to revisit factors of curiosity that the may need noticed in a earlier run however didn’t have the time to go take a look at.
Within the video, a squad deployed on to Tephra with the mission to assist in repairing crucial gear utilized by the science crew. The squad was pressured to improvise the repairs when the gear was discovered to have been gooped up by the native fauna.
As for the unique Astroneer, its Megatech DLC will carry with it a bunch of latest content material for gamers that benefit from the recreation’s base-building and automation facets. This implies the power to create large buildings and extra complicated automation system utilizing expanded variations of instruments already within the recreation like rail strains. The DLC might be accompanied by a free replace that additionally brings with it a couple of new gadgets, in addition to a brand new megastructure-styled undertaking that may have gamers dip their toes into the large-scale automation supplied by the DLC. Megatech, together with the free replace, are slated for launch in November 2025.
STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions might be coming to PC, PS5, Xbox Collection X/S and Nintendo Change in 2026.
