I tried my best to find games that didn't have a "to be announced" release date! Starship Simulator says 2025 on their site, but TBA on Steam, so apologies for that.
Thank you so much for showing our game. I apologise for the TBA, we are absolutely aiming for an early access release Q4 2025 but we all know how game dev can be, so we don't want any broken promises :)
Thank you for the response! Your game looks incredible, and yeah think I got excited when I saw the date on your site. Please don't rush it though, I can tell you're putting in tons of effort here!
What, no Star Citizen? Oopsie, sorry, I misread the description as 2052! 🤣 Most of these look great, but Citizen Sleeper 2 really caught my eye, cheers!
Mars Tactics, Fallen Frontier, Void Wars, and Capital Command are all high on my interest list along with many of the others. I expect to be disappointed by the weapon inventory in Falling Frontier because I think it will be all Projectile weapons, Missiles, and Torpedoes while I prefer my space scifi settings to have lots of Energy weapons. Edit: Star Home looks like a lot of fun, and Remnant Protocol looks like the closest thing we'll probably get to a new X-Com Interceptor for a long time, if ever, with a Colony Wars I or most Star Wars Starfighter focused games vibe to the story. Edit: Fortunately it looks like in the Black has a wider variety of common weapons then The Expanse (The Expanse had a few Energy Weapons near the end of the series but they were very rare.)
In The Black has had scarce dev posts on steam discussions. And someone stated that the discord link is broken recently. So I think it's just never coming out.
Jump ship is the one i am waiting for! ever since i saw that it was a CO OP game on a ship and on foot FPS i was excited for it. I've Played void crew but feel like its missing something
Interesting, a few people have mentioned something missing from Void Crew. But I'm glad to see more games like this coming out, it's such a good concept for co-op!
Funny enough I will probably like Astrometica better than Subnautica if it's "close enough". Not Because it's the better game but because Subnautica produces an absolute primal fear in me with it's deep Oceans and alien horrors that will eat me alive. You know, like our Oceans :D So yeah I have Thalassophobia. The fact I still enjoyed Subnautica despite my need for brown pants while playing kinda speaks volumes about it.
Yeah that is the very reason I stayed off Subnautica, deep waters freak me out. This is similar, especially when coming out of your station, but it doesn't give off that scary mood as being deep in an ocean. It's a lot more pleasant :)
Nice list! Mars Tactics looks like it could be a winner. I'm not a fan of the direction the modern X-COM games went (although they're great in their own right) and I can only play Open X-COM and Xenonauts so much.
Astrometica, Era One, Dune Awakening, Falling Frontier, Remnant Protocol, Fragile Existence, In the black and Jump Ship. I am eagerly waiting for Jump Ship, I was largely disappointed by Void Crew fun but lacking of interesting maps, more stations to visit, on foot combat... Exactly what Jump ship promise, I can't wait. Also, Dune Awakening, I'm 41 and I've been a fan of Dune since the very first pc game by Virgin Interactive. I was also disappointed by Villeneuve's movies which don't respect the novel or the author. So I'm really hoping this game is going to be fun. Spice wars is already very good with great and fun ideas, hope that one will get more DLC. Last space game I played with my friends was Avorion and we all got burned out of the grind for new equipment and a disappointing nothing in the center of the galaxy. Astrometica looks a lot like Breath Edge which was lacking of features and area to explore. Fun nonetheless. Always loved Stellaris but there are so many DLC and each game takes so much time, I'm not sure I want anything similar. Out of all co-op space game, Pulsar Lost Colony is still high in my list, it's hard to find similar games and ones that aren't so clunky. I still think of Hellion and Interstellar Rift, both started to be amazing but were eventually abandoned by the devs, I always hope to find something similar working so well. Since I don't really feel like playing alone anymore, as I'm getting bored, I'm mostly looking for titles with co-op and too many cool space games are solo only.
@@ObiKKa Oh damn... Well, maybe it is the same story as with Falling Frontier? I thought that one was a no go for a long time as we learned their trailer was pure CGI and the project did the not move until the public started to ask tons of questions.
I'm up for anything that will put my HOSAS/HOTAS to good use. I haven't logged into SC since August of 2023 and now the flight model is fubar which is what I was most engaged by.
@@imunfathomable I think Falling Frontier has taken that spot. It's been releasing "next year" since 2018 and has been included on every one of these lists since then
@shoutingstone I mean... You're right... But I can't help but think that "here's a new screenshot of my new Concept Artist's freighter concept" is much more worth getting excited over, even if I do want more. As opposed to, "Here's a Cruiser. It costs 40,000 actual dollars!"
@@DukesUp1 They always add much, but they need to add ships because, unlike other games, Star Citizen relies on the community to donate or buy things from them. And if you think about how many developers they have and how long they have worked, then even the 750 million they made with crowdfunding is quickly gone. Star Citizen uses completely new things, such as server meshing, that should be added very soon.
Jumpship is literally the only one on the list I care about. Dune Awakening *might* be good, but I've just got a feeling it's going to be a pretty empty space "Rust". Falling Frontier might be a good diversion for a while, we'll have to see.
Spot on with DA! Will be a lot of sand with large rocks sticking out of it that probably has caves with the odd enemy. Will also be full of player bases scattered everywhere making it seem a bit weird and more than likely every player you meet will instantly try to shoot you... or that was my experience!
Interested in Astrometica as I loved Subnautica and the Below Zero. Looking forward to Subnautica 2 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). Not going to play Dune : Awakening though, as I seriously have issues with that "game" due to being "persistant"!!
@@alexk5386 ich auch. XD mal abwarten. steam hat wohl durchgemistet und dabei einige sachen rausgeworfen die noch kein fsk haben. auch aus meiner wunschliste sind einige sachen verschwunden.
Let's hope it's not one or two that sell like crazy, while the others are ignored. This happened to a party-based, isometric space cRPG with space and land combat, called "Stellar Tactics". Not sure if this great RPG will ever be noticed, with most media only interested in new games....!
I'm sorry. But "In The Black" is just never coming out. The followers have given up on it with scarce posts on Steam discussions from the devs. Someone also stated the discord link may have been broken recently. Other than that, everything else is on track for release.
Perhaps, I mean I'm in their discord server and they posted this yesterday, "Hi Mercs!!! We just worked on getting ITB ready for Germany, if there is anyone from there can you see if the game is still restricted for me please?" They do seem very active on there, so perhaps it's just taking a bit longer than expected? My fingers are still crossed.
Astrometica clearly stole a bunch of models from Subnautica, just look at the base for example, these are exactly the same models, just with different textures.
So when is the actual date for release? Oh that's right it dosent have one! Perpetual "soon" is the time frame for Chris Robert's cultists. Give it up, Star Scam is never going to release SQ42. 😂
I'll be honest in saying that I was a little let down by the demo for Citizen Sleeper 2. I enjoyed the first one well enough, but I'm not sure what it is but the second one just didn't feel great to me. I'm super stoked for the Alters though as well as Mars Tactics and Dune Awakening.
Astrometica reboots my PC the instant I try to boot it giving me a hardware error. Not recommended to even remotely install this title (and yes that is the demo that does this)
I love the amount of games on the list, and how every dev is trying their best. Obviously you didn't mention the Idris in the room, but its absence only highlights it as the benchmark for other space games to be measured against.
I couldn't be less excited for space games anymore. 90% of them are just autism simulators where you have to make your own content in the form of crafting or survival. With blocky and cell shaded graphics that lack a professional style. And half of them will be in early access for years.
I love how all these space games are like, “You have incredible futuristic superscience tech and can fly anywhere in the galaxy so go to this planet and dig a hole by hand.” 😂 One word for youse game designers: robots. Seriously, why are all these universes so lazy? AI automation to mine ore and pick fruit so the player can do other things, like fight off their hacked rock-mining and fruit-picking robots.
Yeah, and everytime you have to start doing things from scratch before getting automation tools. I'm always like, "but how did you make it this far in life??"
Sadly only 2 games on that list are worth looking at. Devs when you think space games why do you instantly go 4x or RTS? Like we want space combat in ships and you avoid it like the plague. This is why we have elite and star citizen always around because you can't do the simple thing people want
RUclipsr shows new games, yet calls himself EasilyDistractedGames. What the new games are actually boring in the long run? 😂 Just kidding. What I'm wondering is how many will be Woke, AKA not gonna buy. I hope I'm proved wrong and each shown piece isn't woke, since these look good, and we can use some good games.
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I tried my best to find games that didn't have a "to be announced" release date! Starship Simulator says 2025 on their site, but TBA on Steam, so apologies for that.
Starhome also says "coming soon." Great list otherwise. Didn't know about most of these, and they all look good. Thank you!
Thank you so much for showing our game. I apologise for the TBA, we are absolutely aiming for an early access release Q4 2025 but we all know how game dev can be, so we don't want any broken promises :)
Thank you for the response! Your game looks incredible, and yeah think I got excited when I saw the date on your site. Please don't rush it though, I can tell you're putting in tons of effort here!
@@easilydistractedgames Space Engineers 2 is right around the corner.
What, no Star Citizen? Oopsie, sorry, I misread the description as 2052! 🤣
Most of these look great, but Citizen Sleeper 2 really caught my eye, cheers!
Wow quality list that isn’t the same titles I’ve heard of over and over
I only saw like 1 or 2 games I've seen before. This was a great list. o7
This was a really well put together list, definitely gave me some titles to look into. Props!
Thank you, that means a lot!
I’m am definitely subscribing after this video. This is a very unique list of games that I haven’t heard of. Keep up the good work
Thank you for the kind words!
Mars Tactics, Fallen Frontier, Void Wars, and Capital Command are all high on my interest list along with many of the others. I expect to be disappointed by the weapon inventory in Falling Frontier because I think it will be all Projectile weapons, Missiles, and Torpedoes while I prefer my space scifi settings to have lots of Energy weapons.
Edit: Star Home looks like a lot of fun, and Remnant Protocol looks like the closest thing we'll probably get to a new X-Com Interceptor for a long time, if ever, with a Colony Wars I or most Star Wars Starfighter focused games vibe to the story.
Edit: Fortunately it looks like in the Black has a wider variety of common weapons then The Expanse (The Expanse had a few Energy Weapons near the end of the series but they were very rare.)
In The Black has had scarce dev posts on steam discussions. And someone stated that the discord link is broken recently.
So I think it's just never coming out.
No idea why i didn't get a notification :)
nice list of title, got a couple new ones to watch out for
And thank you for your help with the selection too!
Some great looking games on here that I had not heard of, thanks man! 😊
Happy to help Adrella!
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Jump ship is the one i am waiting for! ever since i saw that it was a CO OP game on a ship and on foot FPS i was excited for it.
I've Played void crew but feel like its missing something
Interesting, a few people have mentioned something missing from Void Crew. But I'm glad to see more games like this coming out, it's such a good concept for co-op!
So hyped for Starminer!!! 🪨🚀🪨🪨🚀🪨
thanks! it's nice to see someone who really likes the games
Thank you very much for this great list and your explanations. Directly subscribed and liked! 🙂👍
Glad you enjoyed them and thank you for the sub!
Congratulations, you just raised the bar for game journalism significantly!
IGN can pack their stuff and leave, noone will miss them 😂
Can't tell if you're being serious, but if you are, thank you!!
@easilydistractedgames i'm totally serious, you did a great job❤️
The trailer for Era One actually managed to choke me up a bit.
Is that stellaris music in the background?
Yup, enjoying it at the moment
Funny enough I will probably like Astrometica better than Subnautica if it's "close enough". Not Because it's the better game but because Subnautica produces an absolute primal fear in me with it's deep Oceans and alien horrors that will eat me alive. You know, like our Oceans :D
So yeah I have Thalassophobia. The fact I still enjoyed Subnautica despite my need for brown pants while playing kinda speaks volumes about it.
Yeah that is the very reason I stayed off Subnautica, deep waters freak me out. This is similar, especially when coming out of your station, but it doesn't give off that scary mood as being deep in an ocean. It's a lot more pleasant :)
Nice list! Mars Tactics looks like it could be a winner. I'm not a fan of the direction the modern X-COM games went (although they're great in their own right) and I can only play Open X-COM and Xenonauts so much.
Right!? I'm all for more turn-based games but this one really caught my eye. Definitely will be playing it on release.
Astrometica, Era One, Dune Awakening, Falling Frontier, Remnant Protocol, Fragile Existence, In the black and Jump Ship.
I am eagerly waiting for Jump Ship, I was largely disappointed by Void Crew fun but lacking of interesting maps, more stations to visit, on foot combat... Exactly what Jump ship promise, I can't wait.
Also, Dune Awakening, I'm 41 and I've been a fan of Dune since the very first pc game by Virgin Interactive. I was also disappointed by Villeneuve's movies which don't respect the novel or the author. So I'm really hoping this game is going to be fun. Spice wars is already very good with great and fun ideas, hope that one will get more DLC.
Last space game I played with my friends was Avorion and we all got burned out of the grind for new equipment and a disappointing nothing in the center of the galaxy.
Astrometica looks a lot like Breath Edge which was lacking of features and area to explore. Fun nonetheless.
Always loved Stellaris but there are so many DLC and each game takes so much time, I'm not sure I want anything similar.
Out of all co-op space game, Pulsar Lost Colony is still high in my list, it's hard to find similar games and ones that aren't so clunky.
I still think of Hellion and Interstellar Rift, both started to be amazing but were eventually abandoned by the devs, I always hope to find something similar working so well.
Since I don't really feel like playing alone anymore, as I'm getting bored, I'm mostly looking for titles with co-op and too many cool space games are solo only.
In The Black is never happening (slow dev posts. Broken discord link.). But everything else you mentioned seems good.
@@ObiKKa Oh damn... Well, maybe it is the same story as with Falling Frontier? I thought that one was a no go for a long time as we learned their trailer was pure CGI and the project did the not move until the public started to ask tons of questions.
Ngl, jump ship sounds a lot similar to star citizen and I’m excited for it
Yup, also similar to Void Crew that's out right now, but I haven't had time to explore that game yet.
I'm up for anything that will put my HOSAS/HOTAS to good use. I haven't logged into SC since August of 2023 and now the flight model is fubar which is what I was most engaged by.
Thumbs up for being a list that doesnt perpetually include Star Citizen
@imunfathomable it is good that people are finally starting to realize star citizen is an enormous scam
@@imunfathomable I think Falling Frontier has taken that spot. It's been releasing "next year" since 2018 and has been included on every one of these lists since then
@shoutingstone I mean... You're right... But I can't help but think that "here's a new screenshot of my new Concept Artist's freighter concept" is much more worth getting excited over, even if I do want more. As opposed to, "Here's a Cruiser. It costs 40,000 actual dollars!"
SC kinda sucks. Huge potential but they spend all development money just making new ships to sell, to make more money instead of finishing the game.
@@DukesUp1 They always add much, but they need to add ships because, unlike other games, Star Citizen relies on the community to donate or buy things from them. And if you think about how many developers they have and how long they have worked, then even the 750 million they made with crowdfunding is quickly gone. Star Citizen uses completely new things, such as server meshing, that should be added very soon.
Jumpship is literally the only one on the list I care about.
Dune Awakening *might* be good, but I've just got a feeling it's going to be a pretty empty space "Rust".
Falling Frontier might be a good diversion for a while, we'll have to see.
Spot on with DA! Will be a lot of sand with large rocks sticking out of it that probably has caves with the odd enemy. Will also be full of player bases scattered everywhere making it seem a bit weird and more than likely every player you meet will instantly try to shoot you... or that was my experience!
Interested in Astrometica as I loved Subnautica and the Below Zero. Looking forward to Subnautica 2 (or 3 depending on how you look at it). Not going to play Dune : Awakening though, as I seriously have issues with that "game" due to being "persistant"!!
I'm busy playing Astrometica right now! Devs sent me a key so expect an early impressions review of it soon. So far, very cool!
The Alters is one of my most hyped games for next year. Can't wait for that one. Jump Ship should be amazing too.
Starship Simulator (Because Star Trek was already taken).
@@vik12D I highly doubt that.
"in the black" would be so much my thing. But it doesn´t show up on steam in any way. perhaps another plattform? (please don´t say console...)
Weird! Hopefully it's available in your region? Here's the link to their website, the Steam link is in there: intheblack.gg/
Same here. When i use the link in the description it says "not available in your country". I´m from germany btw.
@@alexk5386 ich auch. XD mal abwarten. steam hat wohl durchgemistet und dabei einige sachen rausgeworfen die noch kein fsk haben. auch aus meiner wunschliste sind einige sachen verschwunden.
Let's hope it's not one or two that sell like crazy, while the others are ignored. This happened to a party-based, isometric space cRPG with space and land combat, called "Stellar Tactics". Not sure if this great RPG will ever be noticed, with most media only interested in new games....!
I noticed it, don't worry :)
Ummm it's not noticed because it been in development for like 10 years and shows no signs of being completed anytime soon
Squadron42?
In 2025? I highly doubt it, but you never know. I just wanted to stick to games with either a 2024 or 2025 release window.
Perpetual "soon" for Star Scam.
Never will come out. Only CR cultist believe that.
Jumpship looks like it plays exactly like Voidcrew
Yup, I thought so too. Hopefully they can create enough differentiation between the two.
I agree
So about 10 years or so…..GO IT!
I'm sorry. But "In The Black" is just never coming out. The followers have given up on it with scarce posts on Steam discussions from the devs. Someone also stated the discord link may have been broken recently.
Other than that, everything else is on track for release.
Perhaps, I mean I'm in their discord server and they posted this yesterday, "Hi Mercs!!! We just worked on getting ITB ready for Germany, if there is anyone from there can you see if the game is still restricted for me please?"
They do seem very active on there, so perhaps it's just taking a bit longer than expected? My fingers are still crossed.
Reality Break The Starcontrol2 game I miss from my youth, to bad is PC only
Squadron 42... enough said.
I want to cover this game soon, no idea if a 2025 release window is feasible though
@@easilydistractedgames It's in the final polishing stages. They said 2025 at this year's Citizencon.
Astrometica clearly stole a bunch of models from Subnautica, just look at the base for example, these are exactly the same models, just with different textures.
animations to
Why doesn't this include Squadron 42? Bad list of it missed that
I wanted to stick to ones with actual release dates, preferably ones coming out next year. Squadron 42 is still TBA so it could be years out..
So when is the actual date for release? Oh that's right it dosent have one! Perpetual "soon" is the time frame for Chris Robert's cultists. Give it up, Star Scam is never going to release SQ42. 😂
Have you seen ‘Exodus’
How is starship simulator different from elite dangerous?
Did starminer stole the logo from starbound?
I'll be honest in saying that I was a little let down by the demo for Citizen Sleeper 2. I enjoyed the first one well enough, but I'm not sure what it is but the second one just didn't feel great to me. I'm super stoked for the Alters though as well as Mars Tactics and Dune Awakening.
I was waiting for your comment on CS2, sucks to hear about the demo. Hopefully they can clean up a lot before the release.
i see timestamps name of the game and i see steam links 10/10 video. like and subed
Thank you! Always trying to give 10/10 value to my viewers!
Astrometica reboots my PC the instant I try to boot it giving me a hardware error.
Not recommended to even remotely install this title (and yes that is the demo that does this)
That's very weird! I haven't encountered that yet, but I'll include it in my first impressions video
You spelled Star Citizen wrong - its not Starship Simulator, its the former
They are never going to release Scam Citizen. That is just a ship buying simulator.
So not even talking about Squadron 42
Yeah with no real release date, I didn't want to put it down for 2025. But, I'm definitely going to be covering it soon!
Thats not until 2026, so not immediately upcoming, nor should you trust the deadline without a grain of salt
That's more like pretty show than a game.... maybe in the future
@@sergiogamito7909 game is coming out 2026 but ok
@@easilydistractedgames fair enough ! :)
I love the amount of games on the list, and how every dev is trying their best. Obviously you didn't mention the Idris in the room, but its absence only highlights it as the benchmark for other space games to be measured against.
Not sure how I missed Idris, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
I couldn't be less excited for space games anymore. 90% of them are just autism simulators where you have to make your own content in the form of crafting or survival. With blocky and cell shaded graphics that lack a professional style. And half of them will be in early access for years.
maybe the only interesting one here for me is Dune but it's an MMO a genre I don't like much.
squadron 42, 2026
I hope so! So many famous actors in that game that I'm worried what the budget will be.
Keep dreaming. Scam Citizen is never going to be released.
I love how all these space games are like, “You have incredible futuristic superscience tech and can fly anywhere in the galaxy so go to this planet and dig a hole by hand.” 😂 One word for youse game designers: robots.
Seriously, why are all these universes so lazy? AI automation to mine ore and pick fruit so the player can do other things, like fight off their hacked rock-mining and fruit-picking robots.
Yeah, and everytime you have to start doing things from scratch before getting automation tools. I'm always like, "but how did you make it this far in life??"
Star Citizen is the only space game worth mentioning.
When will it be available on Steam?
@@michaw2209 Don't think it ever will come to steam
I think it's been mentioned often over the past decade... well, at least the devs are getting paid while the beta goes on and on!
Scam Citizen. The longest on going spaceship buying simulator.
Sadly only 2 games on that list are worth looking at. Devs when you think space games why do you instantly go 4x or RTS? Like we want space combat in ships and you avoid it like the plague. This is why we have elite and star citizen always around because you can't do the simple thing people want
I think they're just so hard to get right without a very large budget. Hopefully more like Elite/SC come out in the future
Citizen sleeper
Jump ship
Alters
Nothing really looks good. Either roguelike junk or stupid looking characters...
What games are you into?
RUclipsr shows new games, yet calls himself EasilyDistractedGames. What the new games are actually boring in the long run? 😂 Just kidding. What I'm wondering is how many will be Woke, AKA not gonna buy. I hope I'm proved wrong and each shown piece isn't woke, since these look good, and we can use some good games.
I called my channel that because I get well, easily distracted, in games I enjoy. So hoping to find games that people can also get lost in.
if you present the games in no particular order, why do you count down instead of up?
I don't know, ending with 1 instead of 20 just feels more natural to me.