Hardspace: Shipbreaker's latest trailer shows how zero-g space salvaging can go very, very wrong

(Image credit: Blackbird Interactive/Focus Home Interactive)

Hardspace: Shipbreaker's latest trailer shows how life as a spaceship salvager isn't quite as glamorous as it may sound.

The trailer shows all the exploding, zero-g-tumbling, and minor head trauma that comes with ripping apart abandoned spaceships. It reminds me of the movie Gravity, except it's entirely your own fault when you're ejected into the black vastness of space.

Shipbreaker's premise is simple: cut your way into a variety of huge spaceships, tear them apart for everything they're worth, avoid dying to environmental hazards and explosions, and escape to sell your precious loot. Hit a fuel line or a power cable and it could end up being a much more costly job than anticipated. After playing an alpha build of the game in February, Christopher was left "hungry for more".

The game, which is developed by Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak's Blackbird Interactive and published by Focus Home Interactive, is due to be released on Steam Early Access on June 16.

Latest in Sim
PowerWash Simulator 2 screenshots
'More evolution than revolution': PowerWash Simulator 2 is coming late 2025, and it's bringing online multiplayer and split-screen co-op with it
A child stands on top of a dinosaur exhibit, hugging the nose of a dinosaur skull.
As a real life museum employee, I'm a bit confused by the amount of pirate ghosts in Two Point Museum—but it's not going to stop me trying to make the most realistic exhibits I can
A citizen of a city
A lot is going on for Cities: Skylines' 10th anniversary—from freebies to new creator packs—but there's still a big ol' elephant in the room
Staring eyes in a face covered in oil
Death Stranding 2's PS5 release date is in June, let's hope it doesn't take 8 months to hit PC this time
Cities: Skylines 2 screenshot - street level at night
Cities: Skylines 2's asset editor remains a distant dream: Colossal Order is still working on it but says it's 'proven more technically challenging than initially anticipated'
Town in Tales of Seikyu with two townsfolk sat on the stairs
Tales of Seikyu is just your regular farming simulator, apart from the fact I've got shapeshifting abilities and I'm engaged to a pretty persistent kappa
Latest in News
New art of Harry and Kim from Disco Elysium, with Harry holding a lit molotov cocktail.
Despite Disco Elysium Mobile aiming to 'captivate the TikTok user,' it looks surprisingly decent—but it's still insulting to Disco's ousted creators
Flag of Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia buys Pokémon GO maker for $3.5 billion with a 'B'
Vice President, Games at Netflix Mike Verdu speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 on October 18, 2022 in San Francisco, California
4 short months after saying 'We'll have to adapt and change', Netflix's AI games VP adapts and changes into a person who isn't working there anymore
Performers acting as zombies are seen on a train coach during the "Train to Apocalypse" event as part of the Pandora Box Artmire Festival 2024 held to attract commuters to ride the city's rapid transit system LRT (light rapid transit), in Jakarta on July 11, 2024. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP) (Photo by BAY ISMOYO/AFP via Getty Images)
Venerable browser-based MMO Urban Dead is closing this week after a 20-year run, not with a bang but with a whimper
A hunter hefts a massive Mega Barrel Bomb in Monster Hunter Wilds.
Monster Hunter Wilds players can't stop blowing themselves to smithereens with its rollable barrel bombs
rainbow six siege x dual front mode
Rainbow Six Siege is getting its first permanent mode in 10 years, and it breaks every Siege rule in the book