Ahead of the games release, Kalypso Media have released a beginners guide video for Spacebase Startopia, giving an overview of the base and showing an assortment of activities in which alien visitors can participate once they're aboard, including an all-night-all-day disco, space whale therapy, and a loot box lottery where willing participants can swap their hard-earned space bucks for a quick spike of dopamine and the chance to win a new hat.

Alongside hordes of rambunctious alien tourists and one totally-not-homicidal AI, Spacebase Startopia is also home to another more recent infestation: rumours. In the base’s on-board cat cafes, outlandish feline-based hearsay has run rampant, spurred on by a recent report investigating the phenomena.

The game is set to launch on March 26 for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S, with a Switch release coming later in the year.