Game developer Gaiijin Games has announced on Friday the release date of the popular strategy game, "Tharsis." The company is actually planning to officially launch the game on January 12, 2016. The upcoming game is expected to be exclusively available on PlayStation 4 and PC, a report from IGN said.
Latin Post reports that it was Mike Roush, a co-founder of Choice Provisions, has officially announced the game's release date. He describes "Tharsis" as a "turn-based space strategy game." The game is scheduled to arrive in several retail stores in Europe and U.S.
"For those just hearing about it, Tharsis is a turn-based strategy game about humanity's first mission to Mars. It's an important mission, and not just because of its potential to greatly increase our knowledge of the red planet. No, this mission is humanity's attempt to locate the source of a mysterious signal emanating from the red planet. We started work on Tharsis more than two years ago, when it was nothing more than a physical prototype made with dice, paper, and lots of love," Mike Roush said via PlayStation US Blog.
"We spent a lot of time in this stage of development, taking time to ensure that we'd come up with a strategy game that was A) engaging on a mechanical level and B) unlike anything else on the market. Once we felt we hit those marks, we got to work on taking the game from physical to digital. Much about the game has changed since those early days, but the core mechanics (dice rolling, dynamic "disaster" events, etc.) remained," Roush continued.
IGN said that the game's release date announcement was accompanied by a trailer. It was said that players will "be forced to roll the dice and make hard decisions to keep the ship and the crew operating, such as cannibalizing the crew when food supplies are low."
