New shooter mixes Diablo and Borderlands, invites you to open beta now

Until now, if you wanted to play the shooter Space Punks, you had to buy an “Early Access” account. Now the crazy mix of Borderlands and Diablo enters open beta and allows free access.

What is Space Punks? Space Punks is a colorful multiplayer shooter from Polish developer studio Flying Wild Hog. The curious mixture of Borderlands and Diablo is played in the isometric perspective.

With up to three other players, you plunge into battle against hordes of enemies consisting of malicious aliens. You have four different characters to choose from, with which you can slice your way through procedurally generated maps.

What is isometric perspective? In the isometric perspective, you look at the world from an angle above. In video games, it often serves the purpose that the players have a better overview of what is happening.

How can you play the open beta? The open beta of the co-op shooter has been open since April 20, 2022. You can download the exciting title from the Epic Games Store.

Since the Space Punks open beta is free, all you need to play is an Epic account and the Epic Games Launcher. How long Space Punks will be in open beta is not known at this time.

Based on the description of the title in the Epic Games Store as “free to play online co-op ARPG”, it can be assumed that Space Punks will continue to be playable after the open beta at no additional cost.

From the alien insect to the humanoid pig

What characters are there? In Space Punks you can choose between four different characters:

• Duke is an all-rounder, which MeinMMO editor Jürgen Horn describes as a mixture of Handsome Jack and Star Lord
• Eris is a killer that deals damage with her nano spikes
• Den Technician Bob is an insect-like alien who builds towers
• Finn is a humanoid pig with a mohawk haircut who fills the role of the tank

You can read how Space Punks otherwise plays and what makes the game stand out in the detailed test:

Teamwork pays off: Teamwork is an important factor that will take your gameplay in Space Punks to the next level. This is because each character has two other heroes with whom they develop particularly good cooperation and synergies.

Finn the Pig, for example, gives Bob’s tower a protective shield when the tank is near him. So the characters help each other.

Mixing Borderlands and Diablo is an unusual combination that brought us a crazy co-op shooter in isometric perspective.

With Lost Ark, we only saw another title in the past few months that broke out of the boundaries of its genre and discovered the isometric perspective for itself.

Can you think of another genre or even a specific game that perspective would suit?