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Ixion is a space base management sim with beardown Frostpunk vibes

As you rear end see in the trailer for Ixion, shown on The PC Gaming Demonstrate today, Earthly concern has dead happening even harder multiplication. Pollution, global warming, and rivalry for dwindling resources take up given procession to the need to find a new planet for humanness to call place. Thankfully the Dolos corporation's Tycoon Station, a futuristic space ark, can take us on a big hunt for a new planet to ~~ruin~~ call home.

Thin problem, however. The number one test of the base's laughably powerful Vohle Railway locomotive impartial rather sorta exterminated the moon. Whoops. Guess on that point's no passing back to Land if things don't calculate in space.

That's where the cinematic trailer for Ixion ends, but we can tell you a whole sle more virtually what comes next. Ixion, matured past Bulwark Studios, creators of Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus, and published by Kasedo Games, is a city building and colony management game with selection and exploration elements, summation a narrative campaign running through it.

You play American Samoa the traveling space laboratory's captain, though this troubling burden wasn't really meant for you. You just happened to be overseeing the engine's mental test run when calamity struck. Information technology's perchance the ultimate "I'm not regular supposed to be here today" billet in weak history. Now you actually have to save what's far left of humanness.

As you travel through the galaxy to find a new home, you'll need to improve Tycoon Station, research and unlock new technology, deal with narrative events, explore new areas of the stellar maps, celebrate index flowing through the station, and manage your human bunch. And information technology's not enough to just keep your crew alive, you've also got to stay fresh them happy and hopeful. You'll be making decisions, sometimes tough ones, and if the colonists aren't thrilled with your choices you Crataegus oxycantha Begin to lose their trust. If things get really bad, you'll be removed from your berth, which feels aware of the situation in survival colony sim Frostpunk.

Frostpunk did serve as inspiration for Ixion, says Emmanuel Monnereau, Co-Founder of Bulwark Studios. "We were quite big fans of what Frostpunk did to the genre, how they merged the narrative with the core get. And from the get-go that was something we wanted to experiment on."

"One of the things I really love virtually Ixion, that sort of takes notes from Frostpunk as well, is that you have multiple variant screens that you'll be looking at at passim the game" says Christian Woolford, Product Manager at Kasedo Games. "IT North Korean won't just equal the inside of the base all the time. You testament have solar maps to explore. An foreign system of minelaying and science ships to explore and investigate, sending out probes and such, so information technology's not retributive a secured experience [inside] antitrust the station."

As for the Ixion's initial concept, Monnereau says IT sprang from some conceptual artwork from a 1970s NASA study at Stanford University. The artwork shows a massive closed chain-shaped space platform, the "Stanford torus," which generated artificial gravity by spinning and was filled with houses, trees, and even rivers and clouds.

"It was really the spark for the pitch," says Monnereau. "What if we were to build a city therein giant station?"

A you build your city and explore the galaxy, you may fare across the remnants of originally missions to the stars, which will rent out you salvage resources and even add to your settlement's Book of Numbers by rescuing the cryogenically frozen survivors you find. You'll even be able to retrace new ships to investigate planets and trade with past factions—whoever they mightiness be. And you'll need to maintain your ship in send on-shape, as Isaac Hull integrity testament be dependable aside hazards encountered in space and still from within by sabotage.

And if you're wondering about the title, Ixion, may I present this nugget from Wikipedia:

"Ixion is the diabolically vicious king of the Lapiths from Greek mythology. In an attempted seduction of Hera, He was tricked by Zeus into making love life to a obnubilate or else, from which was hatched Centaurus, the founder of the rush of centaurs. Ixion's unceasing punishment for his audacity and complete contempt for both human race and the gods was to be knotted to an ever-spinning wheel of fire in Hades."

A spinning wheel of ardor? Well, that just might comprise your traveling space station. And piece you didn't defile a cloud you definitely screwed the moon around. Ixion is planned for a release in 2022.

Chris started playing Personal computer games in the 1980s, started piece of writing about them in the early 2000s, and (at last) started getting cashed to write on them in the late 2000s. Favorable a a couple of old age Eastern Samoa a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2022, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so helium can make water up his own.