I have spent an inordinate amount of time playing Blue Manchu’s two previous games, Void Bastards and Wild Bastards . The first is a spaceship-exploring first-person roguelite with astonishing amounts of variety and replayability, while the second is a bonkers robo-Western roguelite strategic shooter played across a tactical map. So I meet the news from PC Gamer of the indie studio’s third, Godzone 6 , with high expectations and open arms. It promises to be the most choice-driven immersive sim game studio boss Jonathan Chey has ever worked on, and Jonathan Chey worked on System Shock 2 , Thief: The Dark Project, and BioShock .

Chey, in fact, has one of the most enviable resumes in the games industry, also having his name on other all-time classics like Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich, Tribes: Vengeance, and Thief II: The Metal Age , as well as the extremely splendid 2019 release Void Bastards . Oh, and he was a co-founder of BioShock creators Irrational Games.…