Space Scum is a sci-fi strategy RPG take on Battle Brothers

With precise emotive abstraction rats

I did scan strategy RPG Space Scum's trailer a fewer times for the hint of a diagnostic that didn't marque maine instantly think, ah yeah, that's conscionable similar Battle Brothers innit. This is simply a spot unfair of me. After all, your dudes beryllium connected chess piece-like plinths successful this one. That's innovation, right? Anyway, I similar the creation and the bloke from the trailer looks similar he'd seed maine if I dwelled connected the examination excessively long. With idiosyncratic else's face. So, here's a trailer. There's besides a Steam demo from adjacent month, though you tin motion up for a playtest now.

The gang's each here. Turn-based battles. Procedural planets. Origins and quality traits. Mercenary permadeath. Gear looting. Skill trees. The sci-fi mounting does connection a fewer twists, though. I'm a instrumentality of the force assortment I've seen truthful far, for one. Space rats. Space lizards. Space bugs. All the worldly you don't privation to find successful your sacks of abstraction grain, basically. Range combat besides people plays a bigger portion here, and you tin specialise your mercs successful things similar hacking and turret use.

Also, look however furious and/or precise bare these rats are. Very emotive. A cornucopia of antithetic ways to beryllium aggravated, person these rats.

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"Space Scum is simply a tactical, turn-based RPG, acceptable crossed aggregate procedurally generated planets, ensuring nary playthrough is the aforesaid - though they each beryllium successful the aforesaid gritty, Sci-Fi universe. You’ll take your ain customized root and brushwood antithetic environments, force types, factions and missions, each based connected wherever you spell and what you take to do. Of course, erstwhile each the choices are yours, truthful are the consequences…"

Had I a accidental successful specified matters, I would astir apt look astatine the disposable footage for my game, cross-reference it against the connection 'gritty' successful my selling blurb, travel to the decision that the assemblage could astir apt enactment that spot retired for themselves, and past take virtually immoderate different word, preferably 1 much circumstantial to the beingness I've created here, lest idiosyncratic presume my worldbuilding process consisted of choosing the connection 'gritty' past moving backwards from there. I'll play the demo though, sure. Looks fun. Full merchandise is TBC.