Overload, the shiny new six-degree-of-freedom shooter has entered Early Access

Overload [Steam, Steam Demo] is another new six-degree-of-freedom shooter on Steam. It's currently in Early Access, but even so it's already very impressive.


The game was funded thanks to Kickstarter, where the developers nabbed $306,537 from helpful people wanting to see it become a reality. It's also nice that another Kickstarter team actually managed day-1 Linux support.

The team behind Overload actually has some of the originally Descent team and the co-founder of the studio even worked on Freespace 1 & 2, which are my two all time favourite space shooters. I'm really not surprised the game has already turned out so well!

Note: I've reached out to the developer to request review keys so we can cover it in more detail and livestream it.

The fact that they already have a playable teaser demo speaks volumes about how confident they are in the game. With good reason too, as it looks absolutely gorgeous and it performs amazingly well on my hardware. I was consistently getting about 150FPS and it feels so smooth it's crazy.

It currently features:
- 4 unique Challenge Mode levels
- Infinite and Countdown variants that change the focus to Survival or Efficiency
- Optional training level for refining your piloting skills
- One sample single-player level (not part of the main campaign)
- 12 explosive weapons (7 primary weapons and 5 missile)
- 10 terrifying robot enemies

They plan content updates every 3-4 weeks and they will be adding a free multiplayer mode sometime (they estimate 6-8 months) after the final release. I think this is a good way to do it, as too many games focus on multiplayer first when they have so few players.

One to watch for absolute certain! Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.