XS/PC Jump Space

Jump Ship is a clear mix of Sea of Thieves, Left 4 Dead, and FTL. The Sea of Thieves piece comes from the fact that you and your three teammates all work together to fly, upgrade, customize, and maintain a single spaceship. One of you flies it, while the others can wander around inside of it or even on the outside of it if you pass through an airlock and then use your magnetized boots to stomp around the hull, manning, fixing, or upgrading the ship's cannons. That in and of itself is fun.

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And even if Jump Ship was just "Sea of Thieves in Space," where you and your crew cooperated in ship-to-ship battles, it'd still probably be pretty cool. But you'll also land your ship, use your Jet Drive to awesomely fly through the air like Superman away from or towards your ship, go into instanced combat areas, and battle AI enemies – Jump Ship is a purely PvE game, marking one major difference from Sea of Thieves – in encounters that can get pretty tough, thus necessitating cooperation with your pals. Add in that an AI "director," to use Valve's term, dynamically populates these encounters, and you can see where the Left 4 Dead ingredient in Jump Ship's recipe comes from. I had a fantastic time blasting bots with the Keepsake developers.

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Finally, FTL. On board your ship, you'll manage power conduits and other ship functions in an FTL-esque minigame (which, sadly, I don't have footage of). All of it combines into a moment-to-moment that's never dull and constantly evolving. Just when you get bored of manning the ship (assuming you're not the pilot, which is super fun by the way), it's time to land and go into full first-person shooter mode. And when you've got your loot reward and are escaping and being blasted at as your ship departs, you're scrambling to make necessary repairs to your ship, like a Star Trek crew.

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