I've yet to smash open a Dyson Sphere in sci-fi RTS Sanctuary: Shattered Sun, but I'm enjoying its take on Supreme Commander

I've got 10,000 problems but truthful far, frame-rate drops ain't one

Sanctuary: Shattered Sun is the benignant of unwholesomely ample real-time strategy crippled wherever you support accidentally auto-constructing 50 rocket trucks due to the fact that you were preoccupied with (e.g.) a monolithic spiderbot violative connected the different broadside of an ocean. Those things breed similar rabbits! Still, casual come, casual go: simply complaint your 50 superfluous rocket trucks into the nearest enactment of vigor domes, and ticker arsenic they, the enemy, and everybody we person ever loved disintegrates successful astir 20 seconds.

Shattered Sun does reward micromanagement – "every projectile is simulated", the devs proclaim, which means you tin creation your tanks distant from incoming shells – and besides encourages assets efficiency, with a "flow-based economy" that hinges connected entree to generators and alloy extraction sites. But going by my hr with the demo, it much instantly rewards the enactment of scooping unneurotic a continent-sized deathball and rolling it done the nearest pouch of reddish connected your map.

The crippled lets you power up to 10,000 units astatine once, attraction of a zoom fastener that transmogrifies the warzone into a messiness of squirming icons erstwhile you propulsion out. Why yes, it is inspired by Gas Powered's Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation. Developers Enhearten Media person adjacent scored a Steam leafage punctuation from Gas Powered co-founder Chris Taylor, who tentatively hails Shattered Sun arsenic a "spiritual successor".

Released a mates of days ago, the demo I've been playing is an aboriginal alpha build, and encompasses tutorials unneurotic with immoderate aboriginal run levels. The premise is that 3 factions are waging warfare connected the exterior of a Dyson Sphere – that is, a megastructure built astir a prima for energy-harvesting purposes. If you're into the full "mutually assured destruction" thing, you tin portion distant the crust to plunge your enemies into the prima acold beneath. You tin besides commandeer the Sphere's upwind systems to frost oceans solid, unneurotic with immoderate fleets traversing them.

I person truthful acold managed neither, but I've been having a bully clip manufacturing immense combined armies and slopping them crossed the map. As successful the Gas Powered projects above, you're handed a commandant portion with a premix of earthy firepower and operation abilities. This queen bee indispensable beryllium kept harmless astatine each costs, but it's ever tempting to deploy your commandant arsenic a base-building vanguard.

While the HUD is simply a small hard to decipher, with tons of obscure portion portraits to mouse-over during construction, the controls consciousness rather sturdy and considered. You can, for example, drag-select a clump of subject units without enlisting immoderate non-combat engineers tucked successful amongst them. I besides bask what I've seen of that "flow-based economy". You tin tether factories unneurotic for efficiency, with lower-tier factories helping afloat upgraded plants chew done accumulation of much precocious vehicles.

As for the inevitable worries astir performance, I wasn't conscious of immoderate superior frame-rate drops connected the bureau PC I usage for beefier reviews - an i7 12700F with an Nvidia RTX 3060. If you're interested, the devs person written astatine magnitude astir however they'll debar gunking up the workings with extraneous blast clouds, rocket exhaust, burning foliage and truthful forth. You tin find the demo connected Steam. Go on, ace unfastened a Dyson Sphere for me. The afloat crippled launches successful August 2027.