Outpost is a co-op shooter about building a base and battling swarms

They might change the name before release, however

Sci-fi first-person shooterOutposthas an underwhelming working title, but the trailer looks positively overwhelming thanks to the scale of the thing. It’s about fighting gushing swarms of hundreds of squid-like robots and constructing a base to help you.

Now, many moons ago, I used to be big into Activision’sBattlezoneand Pandemic Studios’s excellent follow-upBattlezone 2: Combat Commander. Outpost looks like it has a similar combo of combat and base-building, so that’s piqued my interest. You’ll need to shoot things, obvs, but then you can collect resources scattered around the map to invest in building structures and characters back at your home base. There’s online co-op to throw into the mix too.

There was no firm release date announced for Outpost (working title) tonight, but it’ll be out onSteamat some point ‘soon’, otherwise known as the indefinite future. You’re familiar with the indefinite future by now – it’s whenall these sci-fi gamesare set.