MercurySteam is redesigning its TPS, making it available for more players than before.

The Spanish devs are changing the name of the game from Raiders of the Broken Planet to Spacelords on August 23, making it a free-to-play title. In fact, on this day, the game’s fourth campaign, Council Apocalypse, as well as a new, recruitable character, Valeria, also arrives.

MercurySteam thinks Spacelords is a „new game built on the back of Raiders of the Broken Planet with a huge, new sci-fi universe.” They didn’t succeed with their 10$/campaign approach, meaning their original concept flopped… however, they promised that those who purchased from the previous three campaigns would get „exclusive, top-quality game content that won’t be available to anyone else.” We have no idea what they have on their mind, though…

„We felt that ‘Raiders’ only focused on one specific side of the battle for the Broken Planet: The Raiders. But this is about the Aleph, a mythical substance from the Broken Planet, a substance everybody wants -the Raiders, the Antagonists, each of the invading human factions…- All of them know that whoever controls the Aleph, will dominate the universe as the ultimate Spacelord. So, the new brand is not going to change the game lore at all, quite the contrary. Spacelords comes to embrace all of them -Raiders and Antagonists- under one umbrella,” Enric Álvarez, the game’s director, said.

From July 23, the weekly free mission turns to daily rotation, and before the name swap, the missions can be rented for less gold than before as well. Raiders of the Broken Planet launched last September on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC, and with the name change, they will remain on all three platforms with no loot boxes (the devs don’t like them), and there’s also a possibility of a Nintendo Switch port later, too.

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