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Civ IV Veteran Returns to Unveil Offworld Trading Company, An “Economic RTS”

Civ IV Veteran Returns to Unveil Offworld Trading Company, An “Economic RTS”

The founder of the year-old Mohawk Games studio (which was established in late-2013) and Civilization IV designer Soren Johnson has unveiled an economy-focused strategy title that’ll be published by Sins of a Solar Empire publisher Stardock Entertainment. Offworld Trading Company , coined as an “economic RTS,” will be available on Steam’s Early Access on Thursday, February 12. The PC title is also currently available to pre-purchase via Offworld Trading Company’s official website for a limited discounted price of $35.99 (its full price is $39.99).

Instead of walls and weapons, money is the players’ means of offense and defense. Offworld Trading Company will allow for players to establish an economic foothold on the untapped surface of Mars, where everywhere else has been figuratively sucked dry–including Earth. The meat of the game is its real-time, player-driven market, which will see prices and product quantities fluctuate depending on consumer demand and / or under-the-table influences, such as pirate raids and hacks. The aim is for the player build up enough capital to access the more lucrative offworld markets, which brings incredible amounts of cash to become a dominant monopoly on the Martian surface.

When the Early Access version of Offworld Trading Company becomes available, players will be able to compete against each other in online free-for-all matches, play a singleplayer campaign that is touted to respond to player choices and scenario outcomes, and engage in skirmishes with advanced AI that’s “ already more than capable of wiping the floor with unsuspecting players.” Mohawk Games is very interested in seeing where Offworld Trading Company’s playerbase will take it, and hosts frequent Twitch TV livestreams of playtests every Thursday at 3pm Eastern Standard Time. The game’s reveal trailer has been embedded below.

[ Source: Press release ]

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