Keep Your Ship Together With Space-Based Multiplayer Action Title Catastronauts

Overcooked in space!

by Damien McFerran Tue 3rd Apr 2018

Inertia Software is bringing Catastronauts to the Switch, it has been announced.

Described as a "fast-paced multiplayer action game", Catastronauts is a bit like Overcooked - but this time around you're attempting to keep your spaceship together while taking down enemy craft. It's also coming to PS4 and Xbox One.

Here's some PR:

Gather your friends and join the illustrious Space Fleet in this fast-paced party game!

Can you deal with unrelenting disaster and hold your ship together long enough to destroy the enemy invaders? Repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the torpedoes, avoid deadly solar flares, destroy your friends and clone them back again; it's all in the life of a Catastronaut!

Let us know what you think of this one by posting a comment below.

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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SmaggTheSmug
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

This looks like FTL: Faster Than Light, but as a multiplayer action game rather than a roguelike RPG/strategy game.

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PhilKenSebben
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

I'd rather have FTL, but this will do.

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Anti-Matter
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

So, was that Overheat (Overcooked in Space) ?

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ricklongo
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

Surely at this point devs have to stop naming things -onauts? Seems like we have a million games and game-related brands with that naming convention by now.

Just a pet peeve of mine is all. Game looks cool!

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Anti-Matter
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

@ricklongo
Actually, i prefer "Overheat" as the title than "Catastronauts".
Literally, the Astronouts can get burnt by Fire.

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Nintendoforlife
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

I hated the overcooked space levels so I'll pass haha. In all seriousness though it looks like a nice multiplayer game.

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LUIGITORNADO
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

This place should be called Nindielife

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SmaggTheSmug
Tue 3rd Apr 2018

@ricklongo "-naut" suffix has root in Ancient Greek, it used to mean "voyager" or "sailor". One of the most famous adventurer group from the myths were the Argonauts, or "the sailors of Argo"; Herakles/Hercules was one of them.
Although I bet most people know the name from "astronaut" and Russian-based "cosmonaut" and make a connection there. Especially here, since the game takes place in space.

I have to agree though, the name sounds super clunky.