PARIS (Oct. 16, 2025) — Publisher Dotemu (MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge) and independent studio Alt Shift (Crying Suns), in collaboration with Universal Products and Experiences, today unveiled a gameplay deep dive into Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes. The innovative, narratively rich tactical roguelite pays tribute to Battlestar Galactica’s enduring themes of survival and adventure, delivering a challenge that rewards adaptive thinking when faced with a relentless enemy. Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes will launch on PC in early 2026. (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2535950/Battlestar_Galactica_Scattered_Hopes/)
As seen in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes’ new footage, you must command and lead your fleet’s escape from the end of humanity’s settled worlds, known as the Twelve Colonies. Each run brings unpredictable scenarios, forcing you to juggle scarce resources, and resolve in-fleet conflicts while strategically investing in your crew, gear, and crucial meta upgrades, and potentially even expose imposters within your ranks. Each turn you take brings your fleet closer to an inevitable ambush from the Cylons, a robot species on an unwavering quest for humanity’s extinction.
Catch a glimpse of the gameplay loop in today’s trailer to witness the possibilities commanders could face to keep their crew alive in and out of action: https://youtu.be/jNCBvhusit8
Once the deadly Cylons make contact with your forces, a battle begins. True to the franchise’s idea of persevering against an overwhelming enemy, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes’ skirmishes center around a simple but key concept of survival: “resist until you can jump.”
Deploy fighters from your hangars and direct them in real-time combat scenarios to dispatch the Cylons, minimizing damage to your central ship while wielding its onboard defenses against your gravest threats. Endure until you can flee to another sector of the galaxy, choosing your destination (and potential in-game rewards) based on your most dire needs.
Each run in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes offers new lessons as you adapt to defy your unlikely odds of survival, and your tactical options broaden as you unlock additional squadrons, weapons and traits as well as meta upgrades to benefit future runs. Make decisions that meaningfully alter your fleet’s fate, lead your fighters through high-risk battles, and jump to new sectors before the Cylons turn your ships into astral debris. With humanity’s haven in the Twelve Colonies now uninhabitable, your steadfast tactical leadership is your crew’s only hope of surviving the journey to humankind’s last hope, the Battlestar Galactica. So say we all.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes builds on Alt Shift’s celebrated narrative tactical release in the 1 million+ player Crying Suns, evoking Battlestar Galactica’s striking universe through beautifully detailed artwork. For the latest intel on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, wishlist the game on https://store.steampowered.com/app/2535950/Battlestar_Galactica_Scattered_Hopes/, and follow @Dotemu and @AltShift on X.
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About Dotemu
Dotemu is a French video game company specializing in bringing back the best video games and legendary pop culture licenses on PC and modern consoles, to create experiences carefully crafted for fans around the world.
The Dotemu team has published and developed a number of global top-sellers across both PC and console including the award-winning games Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Streets of Rage 4, Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, other great development and publishing work from Dotemu includes Metal Slug Tactics, Windjammers 1 and 2, Pharaoh: A New Era and more. Dotemu is currently working on unannounced projects planned for 2025 and beyond.
About Alt Shift
Alt Shift is a small independent game studio based in Montpellier, France, founded in 2010 by university classmates with a shared passion for science-fiction and innovative game design. The studio is best known for Crying Suns, a tactical roguelite inspired by major sci-fi works such as Foundation, Dune and Battlestar Galactica, acclaimed for its rich narrative, pixel-art aesthetic and deep strategic design.
About Universal Products & Experiences
Universal Products & Experiences (UP&E) globally drives the expansion and elevation of NBCUniversal’s iconic collection of brands, intellectual properties, characters, and stories based on the company’s extensive portfolio of properties created by Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. The division executes this through innovative physical and digital products, as well as engaging retail and product experiences across our expansive global theme park destinations (for both owned and third-party IP), location-based venues, e-commerce product platforms, and retailers around the world. Along with global brand strategy and creative, UP&E’s lines of business include Consumer Products and Games, along with Theme Parks Products & Retail. UP&E is a division of Universal Destinations & Experiences, part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation. More information is available at universalproductsexperiences.com.
About Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica began as one of the best television series ever made and has spawned into one of most beloved sci-fi franchises of all time. The series celebrates the fight to save the human race as a small but determined fleet quests for the fabled planet Earth while being hunted by their nemeses, the robot Cylons.