Last week we had Bohemia Interactive going to unexpected places with the reveal of their first contact expansion for Arma 3, and today we continue on that path with the announcement that Frozenbyte (known for the excellent Trine series) is working on a sci-fi MMO titled Starbase.

Starbase is a massively multiplayer online game with gameplay focused on building and designing spaceships and stations, exploration, resource gathering, crafting, trading, and combat. Alternatively the game features a sandbox mode where players can explore the game alone or with selected friends in their own universe.

Set in a universe of vast scale and detail, the fully-destructible environment and hybrid voxel/vertex-based game mechanics enable simulations in the game at immense depth; minor collisions may break a few outer plates from your spaceship, while fast-speed crashes can rip the ship apart.

The scale and depth of the simulation in all aspects of the game gives players the ultimate freedom to exploit their innovativeness and creativity – the building blocks of success in Starbase. From constructing single spaceships with durable outer platings to creating massive automated factories and designing electricity and data networks, the players are free to do it their own way.

Coming to Steam Early Access in 2019, pioneers are invited to start the exploration and colonization of the ever-expanding Starbase universe!