Starfield meets No Man's Sky in huge open-world Steam game

An upcoming Steam game might look awfully familiar to fans of Starfield, No Man’s Sky and even Factorio.

StarRupture is a new open-world, survival base builder (does anyone remember when games were just “shooters”, or am I getting old?) from developers Creepy Jar.

One look at the latest trailer for the game over on its Steam page should immediately tell you everything you need to know about this one.

It’s got the FPS elements of Starfield, the weird inhospitable planet filled with odd animals side of things like No Man’s Sky, and of course, you can build a huge, automated factory just like Factorio.

Now if that sounds like a herculean undertaking for a development team, you’d be right. However, this isn’t Creepy Jar’s first rodeo.

Creepy Jar is the developer responsible for the surprisingly good Green Hell, which launched back in 2019. I only say “surprisingly” because, for a first-time dev team, that game has no right to be as good as it is.

That’s all well and good, but what’s the actual goal in StarRupture?

Well according to the description on Steam, you’ll be tasked with exploring “a mysterious planet in an ever-changing open world torn by recurring cataclysms.”

ICYMI: The upcoming The Outer Worlds 2 will also take you to a far-flung planet.

Your goal is to “build a complex industrial system to extract resources, produce goods and expand your base. Fight against hordes of alien monsters to defend your base and survive, alone or with friends”.

The last little bit there is kind of interesting to me, because as you can see at one point in the trailer, it actually seems like (on top of everything else this game is trying to do) there’s a sort of 3D tower defence element to StarRupture too.

Consider me interested. We’ll have to wait a while to find out if this one is all the trailer cracks it up to be though, as it doesn’t enter early access until later on this year.