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 recreation debuted on the stream throughout a interval the place many viewers had been caught a glitchy mess.
“Hey so uh one of many primary Nintendo Change 2 Direct streams utterly ate our trailer on account of I assume technical difficulties?” System Period Softworks social media supervisor Lotus Dwyer wrote on Bluesky.
The brand new recreation is known as Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions, and if issues had gone proper, you may’ve acknowledged the similarities to the studio’s earlier recreation virtually instantly. It’s a cooperative recreation with colourful planets filled with bizarre creatures and flora. The Bluesky submit with the trailer describes it as a recreation 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 targets that may solely be accomplished by utilizing your workforce’s set of instruments. Between missions, you’ll return to “an ever-evolving area station” referred to 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 come back.”
Starseeker is coming to the Change 2, PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X in 2026. You may signal as much as playtest an early model of the sport sooner or later by way of the official Discord server.
