The team at Fenix Fire may have just created one of the most popular games ever released on Steam.
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]e’re you one of those players that fell victim to Hello Games’ No Man’s Sky? Don’t worry, Osiris: New Dawn has everything No Man’s Sky claimed to offer and much, much more. As if that wasn’t enough good news, the RPG/survival/MMO will be coming to Steam Early Access in just over one week. Are you hyped yet?
“We really have no business making a game this ambitious,” said Brian McRae, a developer at Fenix Fire, in an interview with Polygon.”But we just couldn’t help ourselves. I guess, left to our own devices, we wound up searching for the holy grail of … something? Is it a role-playing game? Is it survival? I don’t know. It’s just a game that we’ve always wanted to play.”
The premise for Osiris: New Dawn is fairly close to what Sean Murray claimed No Man’s Sky would be offering to players on console and PC, the only difference being that Osiris: New Dawn is for PC only at this time (don’t worry, the game will be released for consoles later on in the future) and it actually is a splendid game with beautiful graphics and stunning gameplay.
Players can choose to join two separate factions, the United Nations of Earth or the Outlanders, which are essentially space pirates. If you picked the United Nations of Earth you crash land on a planet that is similar to Mars. If you picked the Outlanders you crash land on a planet that is close in relation to Hoth from Star Wars.
The game is class-based like most RPGs/MMOS with scientists, marines, and engineers each being separate classes and each one starting out with different stats. There will be a total of ten separate public-access servers to choose from and players can travel between two 60-square km planets.
According to McRae, it will take players two to three hours to walk from one end of the planet to the other and everything you see has been made with painstaking detail. From the mountains to the structures players can build, even to the indigenous flora and fauna, Osiris: New Dawn looks to be a promising game that offers players a whole new experience unlike anything before.
