Pawsmonaut Games and CULT Games have together announced that AETHUS, “a story-driven sci-fi survival game about mining, base-building, and carving out a future in the ruins of corporate greed”, is coming to Steam in 2025.
The team describes the game as follows: “Take the helm as Maeve, a mining engineer on the run from her former employer, the corrupt mega corporation Astral Resource Corporation (ARC). Delve into the corporate mystery in this dystopian underground at your pace, exploring the remnants of a doomed mining expedition, and the abandoned facilities left behind by previous expeditions.
Beside Roland, an ageing utility drone, made of sarcasm, secrets, and scraps of a past that everyone but Maeve is keen to forget, take on a familiar evil as you literally build your dream abode in this unique low-poly style, gutwrenching narrative experience”
Here’s the key features from the press release:
- Laser-blast mining in a handcrafted alien world: Drill, scavenge, and rebuild as you navigate decaying infrastructure and living terrain. Explore a futuristic world and mine for the valuable resources you need to design and create your customisable outpost. Use mining lasers and explosives to gather rich resources, salvage your finds and sell off the rarest gems and ores for maximum coin.
- A fully voiced narrative about family, grief, and resistance: Uncover a dystopian corporate conspiracy, and decide how far you’re willing to go for the truth.
- Build your outpost, grow your own future: From salvage to fungus, rare ores and reclaimed tech, create a home-from-home outpost. Unearth blueprints hidden in the depths of AETHUS, giving you the ability to expand your habitats and build new furniture, elevating your living quarters. Power up production and let automation do the work as your new world thrives.
- Made with care, not crunch: From UK-based indie solo-dev studio, Pawsmonaut Games. No AI content. No microtransactions. Just one person, one vision, one chance to leave your mark on AETHUS.
