HullRats

Survive the harshness of space in a deep sandbox simulation. Be what ever you want to be. Trade, steal, fight, salvage. Build and improve your ship.

The world will evolve around you. There is no linear story. Your story will write itself through your actions and various random or scripted events.

Disclaimer: The game is in a very early stage of development. Everything is placeholder and everything is subject to change. Most game systems are not implemented yet, and those that are there, are barebones. A certain game marketing guru said that it's never too early to create the Steam page, so here we are. Thanks CZ.

Half-built or planned features:

• Impactful combat with limb damage inspired from a certain great game.

• Skills increase based on activity.

• Job system.

• In depth base building (ship building). Destructible environments in simulated outer space.

• Smart AI. Uses Behaviour Trees as base but with input from a local LLM (no AI APIs or any shenanigans).

• Simulated world with persistent NPCs from several factions.

• AI powered dialogue that uses backstories, world events or local events as talking subjects (prototype in screenshots).

• NPC Social relationships, character simulation with attributes and traits that change how they behave.

• Survival needs for all NPCs: hunger, thirst, sleep, oxygen etc.

• Fairly realistic orbital mechanics travel and exploration through our solar system.