Mars First Logistics heads to Steam Early Access this month
The delivery simulator Mars First Logistics will be heading into Steam Early Access on 22nd June, developer Shape Shop has announced.
The announcement came as part of a Day of the Devs stream segment that’s not available separately right this second, so here’s a gameplay explainer from late last year.
Blending together the tone of popular physics simulator games like Kerbal Space Program with a new martian delivery setting, Mars First Logistics is a really fun looking concept. As you take on a job, you have to design and assemble Mars rovers that can then pick up and deliver a variety of awkwardly shaped objects.
Your rovers will start off with a basic selection of parts, with simple wheels, motors and grippers, but as you progress through more missions, you’ll be able to get a bit more silly and creative. The trailer showed off a clever tanker collector that was able to lift and slide a large rounded tanker onto its shell, but equally then featured a design that seemed to take after Mr. Potato Head as much as a Mars rover.
The game is set in a large open world, leaning on a lovely art style that draws on the same French graphic novel style as Sable, and will evolve as you play. There’s two different types of missions to pick and choose between, a mixture of procedurally generated side jobs and other hand-crafted main contracts that will lead to changes to the world as new structures pop up.
Read more on thesixthaxis.com
