The Anacrusis is a new Left 4 Dead-style shooter

Upstart developer Stray Bombay wants to give you a new way to connect with your friends in its upcoming cooperative shooter, The Anacrusis. This is a Left 4 Dead-style adventure where you and a crew of friends must take on hordes of aliens on an abandoned starship (the Anacrusis). Stray Bombay revealed the game today as part of the Summer Game Fest, and it plans to release the first episodes of the ongoing, replayable adventure in the near future. It is coming to PC, Xbox, and Game Pass later this year.

Now that word “episodes” might scare some people off, but just think of them as game updates. Stray Bombay is treating these episodes like Hitman 2016. The idea is to give players a breadth of content that can demonstrate what the game can be, but the studio also expects people to play these areas repeatedly. The hope is that fans will build an intimate relationship with the levels while also getting new story beats and character lines with each new playthrough.