The survival game Empyrion – Galactic Survival on Steam is set to get its first expansion with “Dark Faction”. The developers receive support from Funcom, the makers of Conan Exiles.
What kind of game is this? Empyrion – Galactic Survival comes from Eleon Game Studios and was officially released on Steam in 2020 after being playable in Early Access for a few years. It has over 81% positive reviews on Steam. The game also made it into our list of the 25 best survival games of 2024 for PlayStation, PC and Xbox.
With “Dark Faction,” the game is now set to receive its first expansion. The two companies Eleon Game Studios and Funcom (Conan Exiles, The Longest Journey) have teamed up to expand the sandbox survival universe of Empyrion – Galactic Survival.
How does the merger take place? According to the press release, the Swiss-based development team has been working on Empyrion – Galactic Survival since 2015. Since then, “well over a million players have survived on many different planets and built their own, completely customized spaceship to explore the secrets of the galaxy.”
Funcom will provide funding and publishing services, meaning the team can now pursue “even more ambitious additions.” According to Erling Ellingsen, chief marketing officer at Funcom, the team is looking forward to helping the developers expand the universe – “not just with Dark Faction, but with even bigger things in the future.”
Here you can see a teaser for the “Dark Faction” expansion:
Trailer: Dark Faction – first expansion for Empyrion – Galactic Survival
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The expansion shows a darker side of the Empyrion Galaxy
What is Empyrion – Galactic Survival about? In the open-world game you build ships, space stations and settlements on foreign planets in order to explore them and uncover their secrets. However, you have to deal with a hostile environment and all sorts of creatures and enemies.
To survive you need the right equipment and basic things like food and oxygen. There are various means of transport available to you to get around, from motorcycles to a kind of tank to a spaceship – space battles included.
In the Dark Faction expansion, players experience a completely new scenario and a dark side of the Empyrion galaxy – an indestructible organism threatens living beings. According to the press release, Dark Faction is perfect for newcomers, but also for Empyrion veterans, and will bring new mechanics, including improved melee combat, additional building materials and new secrets.
When will the expansion be released? According to the press release, the entire Eleon Games team is dedicated to development. The expansion for Empyrion – Galactic Survival is scheduled to be released on February 6, 2024 on Steam and the Epic Games Store.
And there is also news about Conan Exiles, because: Funcom’s survival game will soon receive a free update. You can find out what innovations there are and what a colossus has to do with them here:
Survival game Conan Exiles is getting a free update in which you can destroy castles as a huge colossus in PvE raids