Jump Ship Demo on Steam
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Jump Ship is a mission based co-op PvE for up to 4 players, where you are the crew of a spaceship. Transition seamlessly from crewing the ship to on-foot exploration and space walks. Engage in intense battles both on the ground and in space, and always keep your ship upgraded and intact.

I’ve been interested in trying this game out ever since they posted some early gameplay footage over a year ago. Looks kind of like a mix between Star Citizen (in and out of ship gameplay), Helldivers (4 player co-op/PvE missions), and Sea of Thieves.

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    14 days ago

    Been playing this for a couple of days with friends - amazing game, demo is great. Like a mix of deep rock, sea of theives etc. Really worth checking out.

    • bcovertigo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      13 days ago

      Can you compare it to voidcrew if you’ve played that? I want to like a game like this but voidcrew never hooked me and I’m curious how you feel a few days in.

      • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
        5·
        13 days ago

        I very briefly played voidcrew and refunded it. Jump ship is far superior, even for a demo.

  • warm@kbin.earth
    8·
    14 days ago

    Ah, Hyperspace, it’s come a long way since it was called that. It’s a fun game, works flawlessly on Linux too with Proton.

      • warm@kbin.earth
        5·
        13 days ago

        They went through a few ideas until settling on Jump Ship iirc. Jump Crew was one I remember.

        Glad to see its gained popularity now, it has a lot of potential!

  • ShadowRam@fedia.io
    6·
    13 days ago

    Demo’s been live for over a week now?

    Friends and I already maxed everything out last week.

    Is this something new/different?

    (Great Game btw, can’t wait for release)

    • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      13 days ago

      Has it been? I just got the email from Steam a few hours ago that it’s Live now. They must be really late to notify everyone in that case.

      Looking through the community it looks like they had originally planned to release the demo today, but ended up releasing it early on June 5th, and the game will only be available to play until the 16th.

      Edit: typo

  • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    Friends and I downloaded it, prompted by this post. There’s a little bit of awkwardness and animation jank, but man, does the game get the core concept right.

    Space is not flat, the ship feels like a near arcane contraption, rail guns should feel like they’ll punch a hole in a small planet, and grappling hooks always feel good. These guys know what I’m looking for. The only thing I could genuinely ask for is a more true to physics flight model, but ultimately, I’ll be too busy taking down fighters using a rocket launcher while gravity-booted to the nose of my ship to care too much.

  • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
    4·
    13 days ago

    Is that the Space Extraction shooter that looks like Overwatch? or another one?

    Edit : That looks nice, way more like Elite Dangerous, and PvE only!

    • Glide@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      I do want to state that the flight model has NOTHING on Elite. But otherwise, it is in a lot of ways a game which I wish Elite was a lot closer to.