Carrier Command 2, releasing this Summer. There's a demo available as part of Nextfest which will probably expire tonight, but apparently if you never close the game it should continue to work...



You pilot a massive wallowing carrier through rolling seas, conquering islands with a combination of onboard guns and external drone craft in the air, sea and land. The bridge is bedecked in excellent screens and clicky buttons to do various things to manage the giant craft, and you can tell this is really meant for at least 3-4 players to be able to effectively manage everything in an intense scenario. So something like Sea Of Thieves might be a good comparison for how this would play out, though it's a very different overall vibe. Aside from sitting in the bridge keeping an eye on things you can also take control of the individual drones you launch -





The music and retro styling is perfect, as soon as I started up the intro into the main menu I was like 'yes this is exactly what I'm looking for!'. The soundtrack is all powerful cinematic synths, and the visuals are all DOS-era UI and low poly models but with better lighting, gorgeous stuff IMO. It gets properly dramatic at times when you get close to an island and start launching hellfire down upon the enemy, the music proper kicks off -



I'm going to be trying to play this as much as I can before it expires, I haven't tried out MP yet but it must be the tits, if anyone fancies having a go give me a shout.

It's just really fucking cool.