Minecraft plus No Man’s Sky appears to be a completely sizzling style mash-up proper now, and Romanian studio Atypical Video games is getting in on the development with its upcoming multiplayer sport Cubic Odyssey, revealed by Battle Thunder studio Gaijin Leisure. The devs name it an “an open-world journey the place a participant explores vibrant planets, crafts instruments, builds autos, takes on numerous quests, and fights the Purple Darkness because the epic story of saving the galaxy unfolds earlier than them.”
“Cubic Odyssey begins proper after a crash touchdown on the floor of a distant planet,” Atypical and Gaijin say. “A participant mines sources, refines supplies and builds every little thing from instruments and outposts to autos and starships that give entry to free exploration of the galaxy. Each star seen within the sky or area is the sunshine of a star system. Every star is orbited by planets full of life, with shifting day-night cycles, bustling NPC cities, pirate outposts, and harmful ruins ready to be found.”
“The final word purpose is to cease the Purple Darkness, a galactic an infection that mutates wildlife, consumes planets, and threatens all dwelling beings. […] The sport options seamless floor, air, and area traversal, with a quick slice of this expertise proven in an announcement trailer. Expertise warp jumps between star programs, cruise at a blazing quick velocity between planets, use the planetary speeders to journey on planets, and discover the underground caves on foot.”
Positively check out the graphics, because it leans extra on the voxelbox Minecraft facet than the NMS retrofuturist realism facet.
Word this isn’t actually an MMO; at one level within the PR, Gaijin calls it a “single participant premium sport” however later mentions it has the “non-obligatory co-op” you’d anticipate from a sport like Minecraft or No Man’s Sky: “Gamers can be part of forces with others in an non-obligatory co-op mode to take down large enemies, provoke orbital laser strikes, or construct cooperative megastructures.” Likewise, on Steam, the sport is flagged single-player with LAN co-op and particularly refers to “enjoyable co-op gameplay.”
Anticipate it on PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X|S later this yr.
