Prison Architect devs finally make it to space with The Last Starship Rock Paper Shotgun Support us Join our newsletter Visit our store Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Prison Architect devs finally make it to space with The Last Starship In alpha now, out later this year News by CJ Wheeler News Reporter Published on June 9, 2022 13 comments Prison Architect and Darwinia developers Introversion Software have taken to Twitter to announce they're working on a new spaceship management game, The Last Starship. It's a procedurally-generated romp through various mission types such as asteroid mining, battling space pirates and rescuing ships in distress, all spread throughout the galaxy. Introversion have quite a bit more to say on what they call their "broken, unfinished and bug filled prototype" in their announcement video, which you can watch below. Watch on YouTube One person wasn't immediately happy with Introversion's announcement though. Robust Games' Adam Riches, currently working on comedy point-and-click adventure Loco Motive, noticed that the trailer and Steam store page for The Last Starship included some astronaut sprites he'd produced. Introversion hadn't approached Riches to ask for his work's inclusion, but when he alerted them to it they reached out and apologised. Riches subsequently tweeted that they'd compromised, and "both parties are satisfied". Introversion acknowledge that there's "placeholder art and sound" in The Last Starship, which has begun a closed playtest on Steam. They say to expect glitches, with regular free updates to fix bugs and implement feedback from testers. There's a sizeable hint of FTL: Faster Than Light about The Last Starship, what with you needing to pimp out an empty space-going hull with all manner of life-support, weapons and propulsion systems. Paradox Interactive bought Prison Architect from Introversion in 2019, so they haven't worked on any of the DLC released since. Introversion have been trying to make something space-related for a few years. They've taken a shot at various prototypes but nothing has stuck until now. Most of their prototyped games have been sold off for charitable purposes, which is decent of them. No release date yet for The Last Starship other than 'late 2022', but we'll let you know when we hear more. For now, if you're interested, you can request access to the alpha on Steam. More News Jack King-Spooner's next handcrafted game has a teaser demo out Judero brings chat and action in the Scottish Borders Alice O'Connor 17 hours ago 1 If you were hoping for any Overwatch 2 balance changes then you'll have to wait until season two The next season begins in December CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 3 The Dead Space remake will chuck random Necromorphs at you as you wander the Ishimura In space, no one can hear you proper bricking it CJ Wheeler 18 hours ago 8 Valve register mysterious new Neon Prime trademark in the US It doesn’t seem to be for a particularly colourful Steam Deck CJ Wheeler 20 hours ago 11 Latest Articles What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Alice O'Connor an hour ago 21 Past Wordle answers Here's an archive of previous Wordle words Ollie Toms 2 hours ago 1 Wordle answer today (Saturday 15 October) Hints and the answer to today's Wordle word Rebecca Jones 9 hours ago Overwatch 2 hero tier list Which are the best heroes in Overwatch 2? Ollie Toms 16 hours ago Supporters Only You're probably better than me at One Many Nobody You go on without… uh, you? Sin Vega 17 hours ago Supporter podcast - The Nate Files episode 13: dry bones Bad science is also FUN science! Alice Bell 18 hours ago Japanese dating show Love Wagon has surprising parallels with Yakuza and Persona My new obsession Ed Thorn 2 days ago If you're hankering after Bayonetta 3, Valkyrie Elysium might be a good substitute It's not out on PC until next month, but the console demo has been a surprise charmer Katharine Castle 1 week ago 4 We've been talking, and we think that you should wear clothes Total coincidence, but we sell some clothes Buy RPS stuff here