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5 months ago
Feature: Hide and seek
Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which we explore the wilds of early access. This week, Fraser’s hauling cargo across pirate-infested star systems in space sandbox Objects in Space. It’s so quiet I can hear the dog breathing as he naps in the hallway. I’ve turned the in-game music player off, killed the power to every component on the ship and I’m hurtling through…
Stealthy stellar sandbox Objects in Space is hiding in early access
Objects in Space is a stellar sandbox that treats spaceships not as nimble dogfighters but like sneaky submarines trying to fly under the radar in a slice of space full of pirates, organised crime and corrupt governments. Sounds like a real home away from home. It just landed in Steam early access today.
1 year ago
Not long now until you get to sit in the cockpit of your own floating Cold War submarine-inspired spaceship, because Objects in Space [official site] is coming out early next year. Before now it didn't have a publisher, but 505 Games have decided to bite. If you haven't heard about it before, it's an open-world "stealth-action" space game that thinks the ships in other space trading…
2 years ago
Feature: It's all under control
One of the best, most joyful parts of GDC is Alt.Ctrl.GDC – the section of the show floor dedicated to alternative control methods for games. This year was no exception and I played games using a laser lyre, a box of sand and a bookshelf to name but a few. I think my personal favourite might have been the Calvin and Hobbes-inspired Spacebox [official site]…
3 years ago
Objects In Space [official site] is the upcoming space trading game from Metrocide developers Flat Earth Games. They've just revealed the game's first footage trailer that labels it a "stealth space trading game where you'll navigate your ship as though it were a submarine, instead of fly it like it were a plane." In practice, this means far less outlandish physics in the skies and…
It's awfully exciting when spaceships zip blasting their zapguns and looping de loop, but if you like your space action tense and preferably entirely avoided, you might fancy keeping an eye on Objects in Space [official site]. It's a space trading game heavy on long-range encounters and stealth, more lurking nuclear submarines than dogfighting aircraft. All we have to go on for now is a…
