I would totally forgotten about Battlestar Galactica. I would not say listening to the present’s melancholy singsong theme throughout Gamescom’s Opening Night time Dwell gave me Proustian nostalgia pangs, but it surely did fill me with a imprecise need to lookup Gunstar mods for Homeworld.
The sport announcement in query was for Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, a brand new tactical roguelite from the builders of Crying Suns. Printed by Dotemu, it offers you quasi-isometric management of the human armada racing to flee the sinister Cylon fleet. You will divide your time between managing tensions aboard your ships through branching story beats, assigning restricted improve sources, flushing out new vessels from the planets you go to, and heading off the perfidious toasters in real-time area fight. This is a trailer.
It appears fairly standard-issue for a roguelike, and appropriately oppressive. Every run sees you navigating between planets and factors of curiosity that harbour threats and alternatives. Each motion you are taking inside methods hastens the arrival of the Cylons. After they present up, you should preserve them occupied for lengthy sufficient to finish calculations for an FTL bounce to the following sector. There is a tactical pause that will help you plot out manoeuvres. Different enemies might come from inside: there are Cylons who can pose as people, keep in mind. It kind of makes me wish to play a Battlestar-flavoured Amongst Us. Probably there is a mod for that.
I feel Crying Suns has a superior sense of environment. I nonetheless discover that sport’s huge bridge viewing port fairly magnetic, whereas Scattered Hopes feels extra formulaic and Paradoxy in its visible course. Nonetheless, I’m all the time up for some fugitive fleet-building, significantly given the unhappy demise of Jumplight Odyssey and the wobbly fortunes of the Homeworld sequence of late. Battlestar’s comparatively unglamorous, ‘low-tech’ ships are enjoyable to consider, versus the borderline magical performance of the fancier Star Treks.
Scattered Hopes is out Q1 2026 – late winter/early spring. Learn extra on Steam. For those who assume roguelikes are a horrible Cylon perversion, there’s additionally Slitherine’s far more Homeworldly Battlestar Galactica Impasse from 2017. Shifting away from the technique style, I am satisfied to study of an historic Battlestar mod for Freespace 2.
