Today, Preon Studios announced its first game, Solar Baron. In this game, you are tasked with finding resources for a planet whose own natural resources are dwindling rapidly (sound familiar?).
As the director of the global space agency, you have to find ways to tap into the amounts of resources available in your solar system. In Solar Baron you will design spacecraft, those will then carry out missions for you. Think mining and transportation.
To do that, you need money. Besides the sale of the resources you find, you can also build tourist destinations to make money. Invest this wisely into research so you can unlock new technologies to improve your business.
What I have seen so far seems to look a bit like a cross between Kerbal Space Program and Factorio. Personally, I am very interested in the system that allows you to design a spacecraft mission step by step, meaning that you can automate certain aspects of that. Not a bad thing to have in a game like this.
The game is set for release in Q3-2020 and you can find the announcement trailer below.
