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TerraTech Worlds roadmap released alongside first demo

Successor to TerraTech

Marco Wutz

TerraTech Worlds roadmap released alongside first demo
TerraTech Worlds roadmap released alongside first demo /

A playable demo for TerraTech Worlds is debuting at Steam Next Fest in February 2024, Payload Studios announced. Set for an Early Access release in 2024, this sequel to survival crafting title TerraTech promises to surpass all limitations found in the previous game.

Designed in Unreal Engine 5 as a co-op PvE experience supporting up to six players, TerraTech Worlds features a 300km² planet with fully deformable terrain and water physics. Like in the first game of the series, players must explore their surroundings, gather resources, and build bases as well as vehicles to survive attacks by roaming bandits. Featuring a day-night-cycle, dynamic weather, and factory automation, TerraTech Worlds hopes to provide exciting gameplay for fans of several genres.

TerraTech Worlds screenshot.
TerraTech Worlds is taking all the lessons from the original into account right from the start / Payload Studios

“TerraTech has been a labor of love over more than a decade, and as Payload grew and learned through that time, we realized the game was trapped by decisions made in its earliest days,” said Russ Clarke, CEO and co-founder of Payload Studios in a press release. “We knew there was a more expansive, unfettered experience in there, waiting to be unleashed, and now we have the scale and the experience to do that justice, we are psyched to finally bring TerraTech Worlds into the light – starting with Steam Next Fest.”

Payload Studios seems to have a very rigorous plan for Early Access in mind already, as it has published the TerraTech Worlds roadmap for fans to see as well. Starting in Summer 2024 and ending in Spring 2025, the roadmap has plenty of exciting additions to look forward to.

TerraTech World roadmap.
Here's the TerraTech Worlds roadmap / Payload Studios

Among these content updates are additional biomes and planets, more vehicle types, features such as boss battles, aerial combat, and orbital travel, and new modes.

The original TerraTech has a “very positive” rating on Steam with over 17,000 users providing a review for the game.

Video game release dates: every game coming in 2024

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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