The Ko_Op staff is proud to current to you our newest mission: Younger Suns, a narrative-rich life sim set in an optimistic alternate way forward for house. You play as one of many few folks entrusted with their very personal spaceship. The folks of Jupiter have simply freed themselves from predatory companies, and it’s as much as you to assist the pleasant residents construct a greater tomorrow.
We’re launching proper now as a Recreation Preview title, included with all tiers of Recreation Move. We’ve got a ton of updates on the way in which, however first, let’s discuss what we’ve obtained within the sport already.
The sport is playable and enjoyable for its supposed sample of play: checking in for an hour or two every day, slowly build up your good ship-home, and making new buddies.
Your Ship is Your Dwelling
In Younger Suns your ship is your own home. Wherever your adventures take you, your ship is your own home among the many stars — an area to domesticate, make, and restore. Rearrange a messy front room, good a studying nook, or place knickknacks in your cockpit. Throughout your travels, you’ll acquire souvenirs, furnishings, and clothes from the folks, flora, and fauna you meet to recollect your journey by.
The world is filled with these discarded treasures to search out and restore at your Workbench, restoring once-loved items to their former glory. Ornament is totally co-operative, so invite some buddies over for a ship-warming celebration.
Presently the sport options over 80 ornament objects to find and use, together with altering the colours and patterns of partitions and flooring. Co-op ornament is totally purposeful. We can be commonly including new furnishings units, ornament objects, and extra, all through the Recreation Preview interval.
Fly Your Dwelling on Adventures
Fly your ship to planetoids, ruins, and stations with a crew of as much as three buddies, or completely by yourself. At every of those areas you may dock your ship and set out on foot, exploring the placement, harvesting alien crops, scavenging assets, and recovering misplaced items.
There’s a collaborative map desk for planning your journey, and further supplies you discover might be saved within the ship’s cargo maintain. Chances are you’ll even run throughout NPCs doing their very own duties out on the earth, strike up conversations, and find out about what’s been occurring round Jupiter.
Flying in house is a soothing expertise, with accessible controls and a chill, dynamic, multi-layered soundtrack.
Story & Characters
The sport has 30 totally realized characters, every with their very own backgrounds, distinctive seems, and story arcs. Jupiter is filled with various and fascinating folks to fulfill: grumpy mechanics, fixated scientists, fussy lecturers, bright-eyed idealists, sensible previous veterans, and contemporary revolutionaries holding the flame alive.
Full character quests and evolving relationships are coming, however proper now you can begin studying their tales and following them of their work, with most characters having over 2 months of distinctive every day chat content material.
We’re extraordinarily happy with the narrative content material we’ve obtained in retailer, and can be rolling out further characters, multi-character storylines, and private bond relationships over the subsequent 12 months.
The Future
Younger Suns can be rising and increasing together with the group, and that’s mirrored in each the story and growth course of. We’re excited to share an early look with Recreation Preview and to develop Younger Suns in shut collaboration with gamers, who’ll be capable of contribute suggestions and strategies because it evolves over the subsequent 12 months.
Upcoming enhancements embrace increasing the playable space of house, new instruments and interplay modes, further minigames (mining and rigging), new biomes, house wildlife, in addition to further NPCs, quests, furnishings, and outfits — rather a lot!
You possibly can observe our replace roadmap, be taught extra in regards to the sport’s growth, and be a part of our group for assist and suggestions at www.youngsuns.com. Be part of us!
