HighFleet is a futuristic action-strategy game about giant airborne ships

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HighFleet is a futuristic action-strategy game about giant airborne shipsA mil sim simulating fake mil

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I love the interfaces in complex military simulations. Tiny bulbs, little switches hidden behind flaps, fuzzy polygons bleeping on a low-res display. I don’t actually want to pilot real military vehicles, however, soHighFleetappeals to me a great deal. It’s got the aesthetic of a military sim, but it’s bent towards a physicsy, action-strategy game about piloting enormous flying boats above a “mysterious future Earth”. There’s a trailer and rough release date below.

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The trailer understandably focuses on the big, airborne explosions as these hulking jets do battle, but there are a bunch more screenshotsover on its Steam pagethat show off its menus. The game isn’t just about combat, but exploring territory, carrying out acts of diplomacy with factions you meet, and gathering resources with which to build and modify your fleet. These are some of my favourite things.

I’d been following HighFleet’s development for a whilevia Twitter GIFs, as it’s the work of Konstantin Koshutin, a development duo previously known for Hammerfight, 2009’s similarly physicsy dogfighter. HighFleet has a whole new flavour and a seemingly all-new strategic layer.

HighFleet is due for release in “Q2 2021”, and there’s more detail and GIFson its official site