The Ko_Op group is proud to current to you our newest undertaking: Young Suns, a narrative-rich life sim set in an optimistic alternate way forward for house. You play as one of many few folks entrusted with their very personal spaceship. The folks of Jupiter have simply freed themselves from predatory companies, and it’s as much as you to assist the pleasant residents construct a higher tomorrow.
We’re launching proper now as a Game Preview title, included with all tiers of Game Move. We now have a ton of updates on the way in which, however first, let’s speak about what we’ve obtained in the sport already.
The sport is playable and enjoyable for its meant sample of play: checking in for an hour or two each day, slowly increase your good ship-home, and making new pals.
Your Ship is Your House
In Young Suns your ship is your property. Wherever your adventures take you, your ship is your property among the many stars — a house to domesticate, make, and restore. Rearrange a messy lounge, good a studying nook, or place knickknacks in your cockpit. Throughout your travels, you’ll accumulate souvenirs, furnishings, and clothes from the folks, flora, and fauna you meet to recollect your journey by.
The world is stuffed with these discarded treasures to search out and restore at your Workbench, restoring once-loved items to their former glory. Ornament is totally co-operative, so invite some pals over for a ship-warming celebration.
Presently the sport options over 80 ornament gadgets to find and use, together with altering the colours and patterns of partitions and flooring. Co-op ornament is totally practical. We can be repeatedly including new furnishings units, ornament gadgets, and extra, all through the Game Preview interval.
Fly Your House on Adventures
Fly your ship to planetoids, ruins, and stations with a crew of as much as three pals, or solely by yourself. At every of those places you possibly can dock your ship and set out on foot, exploring the placement, harvesting alien vegetation, scavenging assets, and recovering misplaced items.
There’s a collaborative map desk for planning your journey, and further supplies you discover might be saved in the ship’s cargo maintain. You might even run throughout NPCs doing their very own duties out in the world, strike up conversations, and study what’s been occurring round Jupiter.
Flying in house is a stress-free expertise, with accessible controls and a chill, dynamic, multi-layered soundtrack.
Story & Characters
The sport has 30 totally realized characters, every with their very own backgrounds, distinctive seems, and story arcs. Jupiter is stuffed with numerous and attention-grabbing folks to fulfill: grumpy mechanics, fixated scientists, fussy teachers, bright-eyed idealists, clever previous veterans, and contemporary revolutionaries conserving the flame alive.
Full character quests and evolving relationships are coming, however proper now you can begin studying their tales and following them in their work, with most characters having over 2 months of distinctive each day chat content material.
We’re extraordinarily pleased with the narrative content material we’ve obtained in retailer, and can be rolling out extra characters, multi-character storylines, and private bond relationships over the subsequent yr.
The Future
Young Suns can be rising and increasing together with the group, and that’s mirrored in each the story and improvement course of. We’re excited to share an early look with Game Preview and to develop Young Suns in shut collaboration with gamers, who’ll have the ability to contribute suggestions and recommendations because it evolves over the subsequent yr.
Upcoming enhancements embrace increasing the playable space of house, new instruments and interplay modes, extra minigames (mining and rigging), new biomes, house wildlife, in addition to extra NPCs, quests, furnishings, and outfits — a lot!
You may comply with our replace roadmap, study extra in regards to the sport’s improvement, and be part of our group for assist and suggestions at www.youngsuns.com. Be part of us!