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The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 20thA workers work is never worked
A workers work is never worked
Exercise caution when opening door number 20 on the RPS Advent Calendar, because it’s an uncaring world of manual labour in space out there. If you open the door wrong you could cause a huge explosion that kills you - but to mitigate that risk you can spend money buying an Official Safe Door Opener. Don’t worry, you can just work more to pay it off.
Don’t even think about unionising. Just cut up that salvage, youHardspace: Shipbreaker!
Hardspace: Shipbreaker - PC Launch Trailer - V1.0 Now AvailableHardspace: Shipbreaker has many layers. Like the ships you take apart!Watch on YouTube
Hardspace: Shipbreaker - PC Launch Trailer - V1.0 Now Available
Liam:I really like how Hardspace: Shipbreaker sounds. It’s full of fizzes and pops. Crispy crackles and crunchy clunks. At its heart, Shipbreaker is a game about work. The physical aspects of a labour intensive job that just so happens to take place in zero-g. Pulling apart hulking space crafts isn’t easy, which only helps make it feel satisfyingly honest in a way that your smooth games journalist hands have never experienced in the real world before.
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Oh, and the soundtrack!Americana pairs so well with the great unknown, doesn’t it? The way those plucked guitar strings sound mournful yet hopeful at the same time. The perfect accompaniment for a life spent ship breaking. The backing track for popping open a frosty bottle of Lynx Corporation Approved Lager after a day spent earning very little for undertaking dangerous, unwanted work. Perhaps as you sit there, beer in hand, you’ll dare to think that risking your life requires some sort of fair compensation. Don’t let it linger, ship breaker. Lynx is watching, after all.
Alice0:When Hardspace: Shipbreaker first launched into early access in 2020, it was good but Graham and I ummed and ahhed about whether to put it in the calendar now or to wait. No, we figured, best hold off on celebrating it this way until it’s all done and hopefully even better. It is.
