The newly announced AETHUS is a sci-fi survival game all about doing things differently, set on an alien planet ravaged by a mega corporation. The hook here is in carving your own path through the capitalist wreckage, building a different world, and forging a new kind of future.
The planet has been exploited by the Astral Research Corporation (ARC), which still looms in the background. You play as former ARC engineer, Maeve, who's walked away from the company and now has nothing but a seemingly worthless scrap of land and an old, rather sarcastic utility drone, Roland. This is a new kind of experience in the genre, like if Star Wars: Andor met Arcane in a survival game: smart sci-fi drama rather than epic opera.
