Jump Ship
Reviews
Jump Ship is a four-player co-op adventure where players work together to manage a spaceship, engage in space battles and on-foot missions, and experience a dynamic and evolving gameplay loop. - IGN
Jump Ship is a co-op space adventure where players work together to manage a spaceship, engage in combat, and explore hostile environments. - PC Gamer
Jump Ship is a co-op sci-fi adventure where players pilot spaceships, engage in missions, and combat a nefarious virus in a dynamic galaxy. - Space.com
JumpShip is a mission-based co-operative game for 1-4 players where you crew a spaceship, explore, and gather resources to survive and upgrade your ship. - Xbox Era
Overview
Jump Ship is a co-op adventure game developed by Keepsake Games, a studio founded by veterans of Hazelight and Mojang. It blends elements of Sea of Thieves, Left 4 Dead, FTL, and Everspace, where players cooperate to manage a spaceship, engage in space battles and on-foot missions, and experience a dynamic and evolving gameplay loop. The game features ship-to-ship combat, on-foot missions, ship management minigames, and exploration of hand-made levels with randomized elements. It supports 1-4 players.
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Gameplay
Cooperative Gameplay
Players cooperate to fly, upgrade, customize, and maintain a single spaceship, with one piloting and others managing ship functions or venturing outside to fix and upgrade cannons. [0] [1] [3]
Combat
The game features both ship-to-ship battles and on-foot missions in instanced combat areas against AI enemies, with an AI director dynamically populating encounters. [0] [1] [2]
Progression
The game promises a meta game that will enable various forms of permanent character and ship progression. [0] [1]
Ship Management
Players manage power conduits and other ship functions in an FTL-esque minigame. [0] [1]
Exploration
Players can explore hand-made levels with randomized elements, flying through asteroid fields or invading planetside bases on foot. [1] [2]
Missions
Players navigate mission zones, completing tasks, making repairs and modifications, and embarking on spacewalks. [2]
Story & Setting
The narrative revolves around a nefarious virus that has possessed machines within the galaxy. Players lead a team of Atiran adventurers to pinpoint the nucleus of this threat and halt its endgame by moving through color-coded missions. [2] [3]
Gallery
Image from IGN
Jump Ship screenshot
Jump Ship screenshot
Jump Ship screenshot
Jump Ship screenshot
Jump Ship screenshot
Jump Ship screenshot
an astronaut on a spaceship holding a slice of pizza
Jump Ship - Beta Launch Trailer - YouTube
A spaceship soars through an alien landscape
Image from Xbox Era