[Oxford, England] May 6, 2025 — Adversity Games, in partnership with independent publishing platform indie.io, is proud to announce that Void Scout will release on Steam on June 2nd, alongside the start of #TurnBasedThursdayFest, a weeklong celebration of turn-based games. Void Scout is a bold take on the genre: Players will be drafted into an extradimensional war that threatens the very fabric of reality, completing fast-paced missions across the galaxy and facing sci-fi horrors in tense, turn-based battles with an emphasis on tactics.
Stepping into an armored suit, players take on the role of Alyssa, a newly conscripted Void Scout whose remarkable feature is her sense of bravery and resolve. She is the only person across the countless realities who has the strength to face the horrors, assisted by Malakai, an artificial intelligence, and its starship, the Void Cutter. Before her lies a seemingly impossible fight, saving the multiverse from being destroyed by a malevolent force, averting one catastrophe under another. Her only solace might be the fact that if she dies, another Alyssa from another reality will take her place, fighting the End Times, one Void Scout at a time.
As such, Void Scout is a distinct roguelike with persistent progression. As Alyssa makes their way through the missions, they collect an array of weapons, nanotech upgrades, and a database of foes they face. All three are essential in the fight against oblivion, providing firepower to kill enemies, active abilities or passive buffs, and knowledge of what to expect from the consistently overwhelming amount of creatures Alyssa faces. Knowledge is power in Void Scout: Running forward into a room without thinking will inevitably lead to her demise, as the turn-based combat requires a calm head, situational awareness, and thinking on your toes.
Key to this is the Director-style system underlying the game, adjusting the tension in each procedurally generated mission: Enemy spawns, drops, even random events such as lights malfunctioning or environmental hazards appearing are constantly tuned to keep players on their toes and force them to adapt their tactics. Combat is at the heart of Void Scout. Both Alyssa and her foes operate on the same rules: Move, shoot, or run.
Always outnumbered, players have to use the distinct properties of weapons (from damage and range differences to completely different areas of effect), their nanotech upgrades, and the environment to overcome the enemies, which come in multiple varieties each with their own attacks, behavior, and even sizes: The largest enemies can be evaded by escaping into confined spaces, then making a dash for the exit door - what matters is completing mission objectives, not slaughtering everything in your way.
"Void Scout grew out of a simple idea: what if your choices mattered more than your numbers, and death wasn’t the end, but part of the journey? It’s for fans of sci-fi horror and strategy who want something that keeps surprising them."
Joseph Norris, Adversity Games
Void Scout will be available on Steam on June 2nd. Follow the developer on X/Twitter for the latest updates and community support.
ABOUT ADVERSITY GAMES
Adversity Games is a one-man development studio from Oxford, England, originally founded by Joseph Norris in 2021 to publish Nightlancer, his cyberpunk board game. After publishing it, following a Kickstarter campaign that doubled its original funding goal, Norris decided to embrace game development full time. Void Scout is his first foray into video games, combining the best features of board and video games into one, bold debut on the gaming scene.
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