We've just got a new look at 'the sequel to the award winning strategy game', Duskers 2.0, which promises higher stakes and a more emotive story
Overview & Key Takeaways
Explore. Adapt. Revive.
10 years after Misfits Attic released the highly acclaimed real-time tactics roguelite Duskers, we're finally getting a sequel. And this time the developer is promising to expand upon the first game "by adding purpose."
In the first Duskers, players were set the task of piloting drones into derelict and abandoned spaceships in order to find the means to survive and try and figure out how the universe came to be what is essentially a giant graveyard. Our own Christopher Livingston gave it an impressive 86% in PCG's Duskers Review: "When the shit hits the airlock, when your careful plans fall apart and you’re forced to think quickly, when a successful mission becomes a harrowing, scrambling nightmare, Duskers really shines."
Duskers 2.0 has the same premise, but with more "purpose" as mentioned above. It turns out that players had been asking for this, and the answer Misfits Attic came up with was to place survivors hibernating in cryopods inside each run. So now there's an opportunity to not only save all these people you find as you progress, but also create a new home for them by assigning survivors to different colonies and in doing so potentially secure humanity's future.
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"Players will scavenge resources, not for them to survive, but for others to thrive," Misfits says. "Sacrificing everything to rescue survivors that will never know them." The developer goes on to compare the role you'll play to Cooper from Interstellar, or Theo Faron from Children of Men.
You'll be able to find out what all that really means for yourself when Duskers 2.0 goes into early access towards the end of 2027, with the full release scheduled for sometime early 2028. But that's quite far into the future, so for now you'll have to settle for the latest trailer shown in today's PC Gaming Show. Hopefully that's enough.
The trailer is a mixture of mock UI and in-game footage, alongside a voiceover which utters remembrances about the necessary and unselfish sacrifice the player must make to save the survivors and humanity itself. It certainly seems like the stakes have been raised for this sequel; with a new emotive twist on the original game's premise. Let's just hope you manage to find and save all these people lost out there in the dark, cold, vacuum of space. You can wishlist it on Steam now.
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