Beyond These Stars Launches On Steam After 250,000 Wishlists
The wishlist count is the only hard signal of demand available for a game whose entire pitch is an odd premise, and it landed in publisher Hooded Horse's hands rather than a larger label.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
Balancing Monkey Games is developing and Hooded Horse is publishing Beyond These Stars, a city-building game set on the back of a giant space-traveling whale named Kewa. It launches for PC via Steam at 3 AM Japan time on October 17, with Japanese supported. The developer's X account reported more than 250,000 wishlist registrations ahead of launch, and a free demo is available on Steam.
Beyond These Stars puts the player on the back of Kewa, a whale that travels through space and carries the Peeps, a group who fled a place with no prospects and start again on a living creature. The land is barren at first. Players channel water to the few spots where greenery sprouts, improve the soil, and expand the city while weighing production lines.
Buildings can be placed freely where the land allows, and reshaping them to use adjacency bonuses or cut travel time is part of the design. Canals and added topsoil change the terrain directly. When resources or space run short, the answer is outposts on nearby planets, though Kewa's departure from a star system depends on how far the relationship with it has come.
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