Project 5: Sightseer

Project 5: Sightseer is a cooperative and/or competitive multiplayer sandbox game with deep RPG elements, set in a vast, procedurally generated world. You begin with a scanner and mining laser at a location of your choice, alone or with friends, then explore, gather resources, build outposts and research technologies as you work to claim the world.

Explore the world

Exploration takes you across dozens of scenic biomes, where you can find natural resources, strange artifacts and discarded upgrades. Depending on the world's configuration, you may also encounter other denizens exploiting its resources.

Build and research

You can claim a place as home by building an outpost, from an automatic resource-extraction satellite to a sprawling, heavily defended main base. Outposts extract resources and conduct scientific research, unlocking technologies, vehicles, parts and structures. Outposts built near artifacts provide additional powerful technologies that can potentially improve all vehicles belonging to your faction.

Customize vehicles

As your technology advances, you unlock vehicles, weapons and other components. Each vehicle has a role, but you choose how to customize it. Options include a fast, agile race car that grows stronger as it moves, a heavily shielded flyer, or a sturdy eight-wheeler with threat-drawing capability, hull self-repair modules and weapon attachment points.

You can choose from lasers, miniguns, cannons, plasma weapons, missiles and railguns. Each weapon type has advantages and disadvantages, and using them unlocks new designs.

Fight for your outposts

You may need to defend your buildings from opportunistic pirates or, on a PvP server, other players. Combat simulations offer virtual scenarios where you can practise without losing anything. With experience and upgrades, you can further customize your vehicles to face the world's enigmatic protectors and their ultimate chief. You can also join a cult and worship one of them.

Twitch integration

Sightseer's built-in Twitch integration lets active, chatting viewers influence game events, often in humorous ways. Streamers can enable the feature in the options, and viewers use the !p5 command for more details.