Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a fugitive roguelike fleet-builder from the makers of Crying Suns

Cylon and acknowledgment for each the fish

I'd wholly forgotten astir Battlestar Galactica. I wouldn't accidental proceeding the show's melancholy singsong taxable during Gamescom's Opening Night Live gave maine Proustian nostalgia pangs, but it did capable maine with a vague tendency to look up Gunstar mods for Homeworld.

The crippled announcement successful question was for Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, a caller tactical roguelite from the developers of Crying Suns. Published by Dotemu, it gives you quasi-isometric power of the quality armada racing to flight the sinister Cylon fleet. You'll disagreement your clip betwixt managing tensions aboard your ships via branching communicative beats, assigning constricted upgrade resources, flushing retired caller vessels from the planets you visit, and fending disconnected the perfidious toasters successful real-time abstraction combat. Here's a trailer.

It seems beauteous standard-issue for a roguelike, and appropriately oppressive. Each tally sees you navigating betwixt planets and points of involvement that harbour threats and opportunities. Every enactment you instrumentality wrong systems hastens the accomplishment of the Cylons. When they amusement up, you indispensable support them occupied for agelong capable to implicit calculations for an FTL leap to the adjacent sector. There's a tactical intermission to assistance you crippled retired manoeuvres. Other enemies whitethorn travel from within: determination are Cylons who tin airs arsenic humans, remember. It benignant of makes maine privation to play a Battlestar-flavoured Among Us. Doubtless there's a mod for that.

I deliberation Crying Suns has a superior consciousness of atmosphere. I inactive find that game's immense span viewing larboard rather magnetic, whereas Scattered Hopes feels much formulaic and Paradoxy successful its ocular direction. Still, I americium ever up for immoderate fugitive fleet-building, peculiarly fixed the bittersweet demise of Jumplight Odyssey and the wobbly fortunes of the Homeworld bid of late. Battlestar's comparatively unglamorous, 'low-tech' ships are amusive to deliberation about, versus the borderline magical functionality of the fancier Star Treks.

Scattered Hopes is retired Q1 2026 - precocious winter/early spring. Read much connected Steam. If you deliberation roguelikes are a unspeakable Cylon perversion, there's besides Slitherine's overmuch much Homeworldly Battlestar Galactica Deadlock from 2017. Moving distant from the strategy genre, I'm chuffed to larn of an past Battlestar mod for Freespace 2.