Petroglyph's Earthbreakers will meld RTS with FPS

Earthbreakers

Satellites rain death as factions fight for control of a Broken Earth. Protect your team's harvesters, build factories and vehicles, and assault the enemy base. It's team FPS action in an RTS world!

What if RTS but you ditched the omniscient perspective for the humble vantage of a single unit? That’s part of the pitch for Earthbreakers, recently announced by Petroglyph. The Grey Goo studio are tossing a hefty helping of first-person action into a pot of already simmering resource collection and tactical building. They’re hoping the result “combines the most enjoyable elements of FPS and RTS”.

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