Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week, he’s doing orbital parkour in a proxy robot future war.
Developer: Gamecan
Publisher: Gamecan
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: Free to play
The year is something beginning with a three or maybe even a four. Brands have become omniscient beings of pure malevolent energy coursing through the planet s fibre optic nervous system like a bad thought. Free speech is dead. Entertainment is king. Human flesh wars, as we primitive 21st centurions know them, have ended, replaced instead with proxy battles between sexy day-glo robots with narrow waists and lovely big metal thighs. Oh yes, you d better believe it s a weirdly convoluted backstory for a pretty straightforward free to play third-person arena battler. This is Overstep, and it s in Early Access, which means it s right here in my lap whether we wished for it or not.