You’ll be restarting generators, destroying generators, killing bosses. These missions are fairly simple but a little repetitive. Space Punks: Sci-fi shenanigansĪn isometric blaster, Space Punks has you completing short missions while scavenging gear. There’s also a sixth slot that I’m yet to unlock. While cosmetic skins must be earned or bought, loot comes in the form of a ranged weapon, melee weapon, health module, shield and gear item. There’s no ease-of-access menu here, either, you’ll have to schlep around the place to access even your own inventory to switch out gear. Oh, and of course access the Premium Store, which is currently fairly barren. There’s a space station hub where you can pick jobs, access your inventory, level up. In Space Punks you’re just going into hostile territory for no real reason. The difference is the PvP element and steadily worsening storm gives a sense of urgency and context. If you’ve played The Cycle, you’ll have experienced a free-to-play adventure with a similar premise. Just a lot of scavenging missions to a hostile planet that are nothing a small army couldn’t sort instead. There’s no over-arching plot to follow, no big bad antagonist to worry about. Beyond that and a unique skill tree, there’s nothing else. ![]() ![]() They have names, and an assortment of one-liners they regurgitate over and over in-mission. There’s Handsome Space Dude, Beautiful Space Badass, Space Pig Guy, and a grown-up version of Men in Black’s coffee aliens. There’s almost no character to any of it, even the actual characters. While all these words were probably plastered all over Space Punks’ design document, it tends to miss the mark on all but the violence. Space Punks: Loot, shoot, put in the bootīorderlands is a series set across hostile alien worlds, peopled by characters you shouldn’t like, but do. But while it’s bright and colourful and has a general air of forced zaniness, it lacks one crucial component: charm. As you head down to an alien planet with your mercenary of choice to shoot robots and monsters and loot chests, the cel-shaded aesthetic does its best to invoke Gearbox’s magnum opus. In fact, it’s pretty good fun in short blasts. Not yet, anyway.įirst of all, I should say that Space Punks isn’t a bad game. That’s how Space Punks is being sold and, while I get it, well, it’s not quite that. Their open beta will be held exclusively through Epic Games as well, but be sure to head over to the games website to learn more.If playing Space Punks in early access has taught me anything, it’s that marketers get a lot of mileage out of the words “Borderlands meets…”. ![]() Space Punks doesn’t have an official release date, but it is available now in early access on the Epic Games Store. Whether you head out solo or with up to three friends, it will soon be time to go shootin’ and lootin’ your way across the galaxy. Prepare yourself and your squad to lay siege to hordes of alien scumbags, harvest their loot and tool up to take on bigger, and more lucrative, bosses. ![]() While players can get the game themselves right now, come April 20th there will be an opportunity to try the game out for free. This game is Space Punks from developers Flying Wild Hog and publisher Jagex. A game that is currently available as an early access title is an online co-op action RPG space romp is about to host an open beta for players.
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