Starfield and No Man’s Sky Collide in New Release, Just Weeks Away
Topics: No Mans Sky, Steam, Indie Games
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Topics: No Mans Sky, Steam, Indie Games
The story of No Man's Sky's recovery, from what was arguably the most disastrous launch in the history of video games, is genuinely a pretty remarkable.
The space simulator is clear the top of the tree as the most broad and complete offering in the genre, allowing players to do everything from pilot huge capital ships to carving out their own little corner of home in the game's near-endless universe.
The development team behind No Man's Sky, the good folks over at Hello Games, continues to roll out regular updates for the game, all of which have been free to those who bought the base version (including those, like myself, who bought it very cheaply when it wasn't nearly as good).
That said, there's always room for more sci-fi goodness, and another game is set to enter Early Access on Steam relatively soon that looks like it has all the ingredients to create a splash in the genre.
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Over on Steam, you should be able to find a page for upcoming survival game Horizon Journey, which allows players to head up Earth's colonisation efforts, as they attempt to make a new planet habitable for the human race.
Now we've seen a lot of strategy games that allow us to occupy Mars or similar planets, before terraforming and colonising them at will. This is one of the first times I've seen a realistic approach to that concept from a first-person survival perspective, and it's very intriguing.
They've really gone all in on making it as accurate as possible, with the martian landscape in-game based on real NASA imagery of the Red Planet, fleshed out with additional environmental simulations and lighting effects that are about as real as it gets.
You'll be balancing your survival and colonisation efforts, taking care of yourself and building a base, whilst at the same time terraforming the landscape and preparing things for the potential arrival of millions of people.
You'll need to head out in the foreboding world to scavenge products from previous, failed missions, as well as tracking down the limited natural resources the planet has to offer.
It promises to be a tough experience, but one that should really hit home for those who like their space experiences with as much realism as possible. Horizon Journey is set to enter Early Access in Q1 of 2026, so we don't have long to wait to give that version of the game a go.