Evostrike

Evostrike is about a ship and its crew of mercenaries encountering an unknown threat at the edge of humanity’s galaxy. In a sector infested with hostile creatures, you fight to eradicate as many as possible and gather data for your home sector.

The crew and its evolutions

Your ship carries five Evo-Mercs, whose equipment and skills can improve. Choose from four evolution paths, each with its own strengths and skills, and 12 evolutions in total. While a mercenary fights in an evolution, they gain mastery of that role across three steps, each granting stronger buffs. Mastery buffs persist when you change evolutions and stack with one another, giving you 39 masteries to combine with the 12 evolutions.

For example, stacking damage mastery can let the Sniper-Evo punch through armor, while enough magazine efficiency can turn the single-shot Mortar-Evo into a twin-barreled weapon. There are other combinations to discover.

Missions and choices

As you travel through the infested sector, you encounter events, from requests for unstable mutations to broken parts in the med-bay. You choose how to respond and live with the consequences. You also choose your missions as you approach the infestation’s heart: multiple routes open up, with harder paths offering better rewards. The alien threat grows more advanced the farther you push.

Missions pit you against large alien armies. You study the map, plan your approach and carry it out, while building defensive structures around your ship to protect it from attackers.

Day and night

Night is when the aliens hunt: they become faster, stronger and more active. Survive until daybreak, then use the burning daylight to advance, calling airstrikes and making aggressive attacks to destroy alien nests one by one.

Some battles may be too difficult to win at first, but the aliens are not endless. The longer you hold out, the fewer remain, and your ship’s supply generator grows more powerful as it warms up.

The infestation’s elites

Near the heart of the infestation, you face its elites: larger, stronger enemies whose goal is to destroy your ship. Take out their vital parts one by one to stop them from reaching it.

Research after defeat

When your crew dies, the data it collected is sent home. You use that data to research new constructs for other Drifting-Edges, who can then charge in stronger and better informed. The Drifting-Edge are scouts and first responders, not meant to face the threat alone.