New tactical shooter launches Alpha on Steam – Let yourself plunder huge spaceships

Marauders, a new shooter with tactical and sci-fi elements, is starting its Closed Alpha today on Steam. MeinMMO tells you what kind of game it is and how you can play it yourself.

What is Marauders? Developer Team17 describes the first-person shooter as a “tactical multiplayer shooter” set in a dystopian sci-fi universe.

• The setting is a bit reminiscent of the alternate universe of Fallout. The First World War never ended and the earth became so heavily industrialized that a flight into space became necessary.
• Players take on the role of space mercenaries, the Marauders, who search spaceships for loot to plunder.
• The goal is to raid other ships and use the loot to improve your own equipment and ship. You can either attack stations on asteroids or even hijack enemy spaceships.

The design of the game therefore contains numerous steampunk elements and is quite dark.

When does the alpha start? It officially starts today, May 4th. The closed alpha is scheduled to run until May 9th. So far, the servers are not online, but that should happen in the course of the evening.

How to join You need to pre-order the game on Steam. Here it goes to official site.

You can also watch the trailer here:

Marauders starts Closed Alpha – We tell you what to expect

What modes are there? The game offers both co-op and PvP and is mainly played online. It is currently not known whether it is possible to gamble completely solo without other players.

How is Marauders played? You can go on the hunt alone or in a group of 3. The flow of the game is described on the Steam page like this: Raid, Loot, Escape.

On the various battlefields, this is always your highest principle. These raids are the main part of the gameplay.

Apart from that, you upgrade yourself and your ship and travel the universe in search of new goals. The gameplay should feel tactical and realistic, the AI ​​opponents should also behave realistically.

Weapons can be upgraded with mods, and XP unlocks new items. You can build your spaceship yourself and improve it with new parts, or you can simply take over an enemy’s boat.

We don’t yet know how all this works in detail. There are too few gameplay scenes for that. The principle is reminiscent of other shooters like Escape from Tarkov and Hunt: Showdown.

Who is behind Marauders? Team17 is a British company that both develops and publishes games. The company has repeatedly appeared as a publisher for indie games, such as the 2D roguelike Blasphemous.

However, the developer became known for games like Hell Let Loose. As a hardcore shooter with a WW2 setting, it won many fans and was even considered anti-Battlefield.

You can find out how Hell Let Loose is doing since its release last year in our special: Hell Let Loose was considered the “anti-battlefield” for the Steam release – how is the WW2 shooter 2022 doing?