On this adventure, a player’s most useful tool is their ability to shape their world, altering the terrain and extracting valuable resources from planets, asteroids, and moons. Resources can be traded on the open market or crafted into new tools, vehicles, and modules to create everything from massive industrial bases to pop-up tents for overnight expeditions.

Astroneer is a game about exploration and creativity. The worlds in Astroneer are diverse, each combining careful artistry and procedural generation to create unique and beautiful experiences. Yet, each world can be reshaped by your tools. The entire volume of the world can be dug, sculpted, or added to at your whim. Every cubic inch of every world is accessible to you. Excavate vast underground tunnels or create megaliths on the surface; the world is your Play-Doh.

As part of the Nintendo Indie World Showcase, developer System Era Softworks announced that Astroneer will come to Nintendo Switch in early 2022.

Specially developed to run exceptionally well on Switch, players will be able to enjoy the full Astroneer experience on the go.

Astroneer’s interplanetary survival sandbox adventure has been played by more than six million space explorers since its Steam Early Access launch in 2016 and subsequent full release in 2019. Since that 1.0 release, System Era has updated the game more than 25 times, adding Automation, Missions, and a full Creative Mode. Astroneer has won seven Webby Awards, a SXSW Gaming Award, and has a 91% lifetime rating on Steam.

The sudden development of technology for rapid space travel enables fast and inexpensive journeys to the stars. Exo Dynamics, the dominant conglomerate in the new field, has opened flights to daring citizens of Earth. Like the Yukon gold rush of old, waves of adventurers sign up to launch themselves into a new frontier, risking everything to seek their fortune in the far reaches of the galaxy. These are the Astroneers.

As an Astroneer, you must find a way to dig out a life on one of a multitude of harsh new worlds. Blast through the terrain to uncover precious artifacts and materials you can use to fuel your quest to become a wealthy baron in the stars. Along the way, discover oddities, raise questions, and uncover mysteries.

Perhaps not all is as it seems.

Key Features

• Explore multitudes of procedural worlds.
• Shape completely malleable terrain. Dig to the center of the earth, or forge mountains.
• Craft vehicles and discover resources to reach ever further in the galaxy.
• Survive in ever more harsh and rewarding environments.
• Play with friends in online or local multiplayer.

Currently available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Astroneer is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2022.