After two years in early access, Bugbyte has announced the PC, Max, and Linux release of its space-themed sim, Space Haven. Players can purchase a copy of the game for 40% off ($14.99) through May 27th. A pair of bundles is also on sale through the end of the month.
The game invites players to build a thriving community home in space. Ships will be built tile-by-tile, with players also needing to keep an eye on crew needs, maintain optimal gas conditions, and explore the universe. The latter sends players into situations that can be friendly or oppositional, but can yield big rewards for the effort.
A recent story trailer showcases a lot of gameplay, locations, game features, and more.
Space Haven Game Features
- Design and Build
- Customize – Complete freedom to build a spaceship or station of your own desire. Place every piece of the ship hull, wall, door, and facility wherever you want.
- Functional – All facilities serve a purpose. Crew members will sleep in beds, use toilets, be disturbed by a noisy room, and praise you for an arcade machine.
- Simulated Gas System
- Oxygen and CO2 – Keep optimal Oxygen and CO2 levels by building life support modules for your crew members.
- Hazardous gases – Certain facilities and explosions can release hazardous gases. Build scrubbers to purify the air.
- Temperature and power – Build thermal regulators to maintain an ideal temperature for your crew. Build power nodes and set up power distribution throughout the ship.
- Comfort – Building a bed right next to the ship’s core will disturb sleep. Design your ship for crew comfort.
- Deep Characterization
- Skills and traits – Every crew member has their own set of skills and traits. A wimp might get scared shooting a gun, while an iron-stomach person can eat anything without being affected.
- Mood – A happy crew member needs food, sleep, comfort, safety, and friends. Take something away, and their mood will be affected.
- Conditions – Crew members might feel adventurous, suffer from starvation, feel unhygienic, or simply eat too much. Various conditions affect how they feel.
- Mental breaks – When the stress is too much for a crew member, they may suffer a mental break. Some will vent themselves out of the airlock, while others might start a fight.
- Missions
- Away missions – Equip your crew members and organize away teams to explore derelict ships or visit stations or spaceships of other factions.
- Draft – Draft and move your crew members to attack enemies and save their friends.
- Inventory – Each crew member has their own unique inventory. Equip them with pistols, rifles, grenades, and more.
- Crew Combat and Aliens
- Crew combat – Engage in combat with enemy factions or an alien species.
- Aliens – Watch aliens incapacitate your crew members and capture them alive. See them suffer in the alien lair and decide if you want to try to save them or not.
- Ship-to-Ship Combat
- Battlestations – Watch your crew take battle stations as you engage the enemy in ship-to-ship battle. See your crew load turrets with projectiles, put out fires from explosions, patch hull breaches, and repair vital facilities in the midst of battle.
- Tactical – Target the enemy ship’s engine and stop it from fleeing. See them do the same to you. Engage their turrets directly or try to focus on the enemy ship’s core and see their ship go pitch black. Build shields to protect the most vital segments of your ships.
- Health Modeling
- Cryopods – Protect your crew from the side effects of interstellar travel. Place crew members into stasis to freeze the progression of a disease or to await rescue.
- Medical – Treat crew members for injuries, wounds, and diseases. Medical conditions affect crew members in various ways.
- The Galaxy and Factions
- Generated galaxy – Explore a new procedurally generated galaxy each playthrough, with planets, asteroids, stations, and spaceships of other factions.
- Factions – Interact with various factions, all trying to survive and establish dominance in their own way. Meet pirates, merchants, slave traders, cultists, and more, and develop relationships with each.
Check out the Space Haven Steam page for further information.
