If you’re one of the millions of players who have sampled Sea of Thieves since its launch way back in 2018, and found yourself thinking “this is fun, but what if it was in space?”, some former Blizzard devs have got some great news for you.
Wildgate looks like the kind of multiplayer, ship-vs-ship, loot-hunting action that’s made Sea of Thieves such a roaring success for the last eight years, except set in a frontier region of space called The Reach.
In this upcoming space gameyou play the role of a Prospector who has come to The Reach in search of your fortune and chasing tales of a legendary Artifact, only to find yourself plunged into a world of piratical chaos and endless skirmishing. To survive and thrive, you need to either escape The Reach through the eponymous Wildgate with the Artifact in tow, or murder every other Prospector crew to achieve Dominion.
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The emphasis is heavily on multiplayer, allowing you to join a crew of up to four Prospectors to scavenge loot and upgrade your ship. Mid-match progression looks abundant, with upgradeable ship guns, turrets, personal weapons, traps, and a plethora of other goodies to discover and wield to terrifying effect.
