MercurySteam has announced that its 4-vs-1 "shooter-brawler" Raiders of the Broken Planet will become free-to-play next month, and will receive a new name in the process.
All of this will happen on August 23rd, when Raiders of the Broken Planet will officially be reborn under the slightly less enigmatic moniker of Spacelords.
Raiders of the Broken Planet launched in August last year on PC, Xbox One, and PS4, with a pricing model that charged 9.99 per multi-mission campaign - three of which (Alien Myths, Wardog Fury, and Hades Betrayal) have been released so far. The idea, director Enric lvarez explained as part of today's announcement, was that this price point "would open it up to a large number of users". However, this "didn't work as we planned".