Team behind rts Planetary Annihilation announces Factorio-like successor

The team behind the successful RTS game Planetary Annihilation, the spiritual successor to Total Annihilation, has announced a new game called Industrial Annihilation. The game should be partly financed with a public investment campaign.

Unlike its predecessors, Industrial Annihilation is not merely a real-time strategy game, but also becomes a ‘factory simulator’. In addition to waging war, players must set up factories by collecting raw materials. The more resources the player collects, the bigger the factories and the better the weapons that can be manufactured. To PC Gamer states the developer that the strategy game Factorio served as inspiration for Industrial Annihilation. The team calls its new game a ‘factory game with an RTS layer’.

It is the intention that Industrial Annihilation will be released in early access on Steam in the second quarter of 2024. Players can pre-order this version of the game for $30. A year later, the full game should be released for $40.

The game is partly financed through investment platform StartEngine. Unlike Kickstarter, for example, a public investment round is used. From $500 users can buy part of the development studio, Galactic Annihilation. Planetary Annihilation raised approximately $2.2 million on Kickstarter in 2012 and has sold more than three million copies.