Genesis Alpha One

The player has the freedom to customize the ship's design, its crew members, and create human-alien hybrids to colonize otherwise inhospitable worlds. The game received mixed reception from critics, who enjoyed its premise, but believed its execution was lackluster, including tedious gameplay and generic crew members who were bland and boring in both personality and design.

• Developer — Radiation Blue • Publisher — Team17 • Director — * Jens Jankuhn • Sascha Jungnickel • Designer — * Jens Jankuhn • Sascha Jungnickel • Programmer — Claus Praefcke • Writer — Claus Wohlgemuth • Platforms — Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One • Released — January 29, 2019 • Genre — Roguelike, simulation • Modes — Single-player • Engine — Unreal Engine 4

The player is put in charge of a colony ship crewed by human clones, designed as an ark for humanity's survival, constructing bare essentials and then launching into space. The player then takes control of one of the ship's crew members at random, going into first-person mode. The player proceeds to search the galaxy for ship and crew upgrades while fighting off hostile alien life.

The game was developed in Germany using Unreal Engine 4. Ship-building with modules was part of the initial gameplay concept, and was inspired by the International Space Station. Meanwhile, attacks on the ship by insectoid aliens was inspired by the Alien series. The alien AI was heavily tested to make sure it could traverse levels built by players. Adding automatically closing doors between modules reduced the demand for system resources. In order to decrease the game's scope to more manageable levels, the development team did not include manual piloting of the ship, only letting the player hyperjump to a new planetary system. Planetary landings on inhospitable planets were also restricted to a small landing zone around the dropship.