Retro gamers have something to look forward to this week as the Lost Astronaut’s Empire in the Sky Alpha Demo releases.
The game’s creator H. Elwood Gilliland hopes to bring a mix of 2.5D space combat and RPG elements to PC gamers twitching for some space combat. Lost Astronaut’s Empire in the Sky looks to be a highly ambitious game by giving the player the ability to build on any planet in the 100 star systems that the game contains along with over 300 unique alien civilizations to interact and battle. The game also boasts the ability to build continuously without the build cap that a lot of RTS type games enforce in their mechanics.
Check out the trailer
Gilliland says “The mysterious GRB provide standards and practices for the commerce and technology of space faring galactic civilizations, but many of the planets are unexplored and contain non-space-faring civilizations. In some cases, aggressor races have enslaved or sworn to protect these civilizations. Evidence of ancient but vastly sophisticated civilizations can be found on planets, so you’re an artifact hunter if you’re able to find your way through the space wars and other mucky-muck that is space. For those who haven’t had a chance to play the game, we’ve got it in the hands of our testers right now, but we promise a fairly stable, if limited, experience for people who want to help support the game by buying a copy early, and for those who want to try it, we’ll get a demo out there”.
Gilliand states that the final build of the game will be that of an MMO experience like no other. It possibly looks to compete with award-winning space MMO Eve Online, which currently dominates the space warfare gaming sector at the moment.
To play the demo please make sure you have the system requirements as listed below:
-More than 2GB RAM
-Fairly recent video card (NVIDIA / ATI)
-OpenAL-compatible sound
-At least 4GB hard drive space
-Windows
For more information on Lost Astronaut’s Empire in the Sky, click here.
