In Everspace, players awaken onboard a battleship in a remote corner of our galaxy. They receive a mysterious command to appear at a specific place. Searching for the origins of their own existence and the unknown commander, they must fight their way through more and more new, uncontrolled territories where they will encounter other skilled combat pilots, who range from cooperative to hostile. Death will be a constant companion and constantly recurring flashbacks of the protagonist will gradually shine a light in the darkness of the mission.

During the course of the game, players will not only have to continually prove their combat skills, but also gather fuel and raw materials in order to travel to various star systems and repair and upgrade their equipment. The roguelike character of the game offers a quick and easy entry to the game and adds constant twists and surprises to the game events. Along with gameplaying skills, this also demands improvisation by players and provides an individual, always motivational game experience. Unlike in classic roguelikes, game progress is not completely lost at the moment of death, but rather remains available in the form of persistent upgrades.

The first build of the Xbox One version will be shown at GDC in San Francisco in March 2016. Since the current PC Pre-Alpha version already performs quite seamlessly on an average gaming PC even without optimization, the objective for the console version on Xbox One is an equally smooth gaming experience in all its glory with full-HD resolution.

In addition to the confirmed console version for Xbox One, there is good news for all PC players and especially VR gamers: ROCKFISH Games confirmed that the gamepad support favored by the community can now be fully implemented as well. This means that in addition to flight- and action-sequences, equipping the ship as well as navigating through the game’s menu can also be controlled via gamepad. Thanks to ongoing backing by the community the ultra-challenging Hardcore Mode with perma-death and other nasty surprises for all rogue-like purists out there has also just been unlocked.

„We are very excited to work with the ID@Xbox team to bring EVERSPACE to Xbox One and Windows 10,“ says Michael Schade, CEO of ROCKFISH Games. “We believe EVERSPACE will be a great space shooter also for consoles thanks to its arcade style with easy-to-pick-up gameplay and its intuitive controls. Of course, this is also good news for all VR players as the PC version will feature full gamepad support as well now.”

“We were captivated from the first second we saw EVERSPACE, and are extremely excited to have ROCKFISH bringing the game to Xbox One and Windows 10,” says Chris Charla, Director of ID@Xbox.