Nintendo’s Change 2 Direct stream suffered technical points on the most inopportune time for the builders of Astroneer. Close to the top of Wednesday’s presentation, a trailer for his or her new sport debuted on the stream throughout a interval the place many viewers had been caught taking a look at a glitchy mess.
“Hey so uh one of many predominant Nintendo Change 2 Direct streams utterly ate our trailer attributable to I suppose technical difficulties?” System Period Softworks social media supervisor Lotus Dwyer wrote on Bluesky.
The brand new sport is named Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, and if issues had gone proper, you could possibly’ve acknowledged the similarities to the studio’s earlier sport nearly instantly. It’s a cooperative sport with colourful planets stuffed with bizarre creatures and vegetation. The Bluesky publish with the trailer describes it as a sport about “the enjoyment of discovery and the camaraderie that emerges from an evolving, cooperative expertise,” which suggests your crew of goofy astronauts will go to many various planets than the one we noticed.
Over on the Steam web page, the outline factors out that every planet may have completely different goals that may solely be accomplished through the use of your crew’s set of instruments. Between missions, you’ll return to “an ever-evolving area station” often known as the ESS Starseeker to get upgrades and plan your subsequent expedition.
System Period Softworks says Starseeker takes place within the Astroneer universe, however isn’t a direct sequel. Astroneer will proceed to be up to date “for years to return.”
Starseeker is coming to the Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X in 2026. You’ll be able to signal as much as playtest an early model of the sport sooner or later through the official Discord server.
