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PARIS (Aug. 19, 2025) – Announced today at Gamescom’s Opening Night Live, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, published by Dotemu (MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge) and developed by the indie studio Alt Shift (Crying Suns) in collaboration with Universal Products & Experiences, is an all-new interactive video game that pays tribute to the fundamental aspects of the franchise, while offering an innovative rougelite experience where narrative and tactical choices will guide the player towards survival.The journey begins in early 2026.
In Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, you command a fleet of spaceships fleeing humanity’s settled worlds, known as the Twelve Colonies. You must escape annihilation by the Cylons, a sentient robotic species that has turned against its human creators. The only hope of survival lies in reaching the mighty ship known as the Battlestar Galactica, but enduring the Cylons attack while preventing political dissent or in-fleet disputes from dividing your forces will test your ability to manage multiple crises at once – including identifying imposters that may already be among your ranks.
Every difficult choice made in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes brings consequences, and each run varies in its challenges. Encounter planets and galactic points of interest, decide whether to spend precious resources addressing incidents within your fleet or upgrading your forces, and make the most of your crew’s time while preparing for assault; enemy Cylon ships will close in with each action and turn you take.
Once the deadly Cylons make contact with your forces, a battle begins. True to the franchise’s theme of escaping an overwhelming enemy, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes features innovative core combat gameplay centered around a simple but key concept of survival: “resist until you can jump.” Deploy fighters from your hangars and direct them in real-time combat scenarios to dispatch the Cylons, minimizing damage to your central ship while wielding its onboard defenses against your gravest threats. Endure until you can flee to another sector of the galaxy, choosing your destination (and potential rewards) based on your most dire needs.
Each run in Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes offers new lessons as you adapt to defy your brutal odds of survival, and your tactical options broaden as you unlock additional squadrons, weapons and traits as well as meta upgrades to benefit future runs. Make decisions that meaningfully alter your fleet’s fate, lead your fighters through high-risk battles, and jump to new sectors before the Cylons turn your ships into astral debris. With humanity’s haven in the Twelve Colonies now uninhabitable, your steadfast tactical leadership is your crew’s only hope of surviving the journey to humankind’s last hope, the Battlestar Galactica. So say we all.
Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes builds on Alt Shift’s celebrated narrative tactical release in the 1 million+ player Crying Suns, and evokes Battlestar Galactica’s iconic cast and striking universe through beautifully detailed artwork. For the latest intel on Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes, visit WEBSITE, wishlist the game on Steam, and follow @Dotemu and @AltShift on X.
About Dotemu
Dotemu is a French video game company specializing in bringing back the best video games and legendary pop culture licenses on PC and modern consoles, to create experiences carefully crafted for fans around the world.
The Dotemu team has published and developed a number of global top-sellers across both PC and console including the award-winning games Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, Streets of Rage 4, Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap, other great development and publishing work from Dotemu includes Metal Slug Tactics, Windjammers 1 and 2, Pharaoh: A New Era and more. Dotemu is currently working on unannounced projects planned for 2025 and beyond.
About Alt Shift
Alt Shift is a small independent game studio based in Montpellier, France, founded in 2010 by university classmates with a shared passion for science-fiction and innovative game design. The studio is best known for Crying Suns, a tactical roguelite inspired by major sci-fi works such as Foundation, Dune and Battlestar Galactica, acclaimed for its rich narrative, pixel-art aesthetic and deep strategic design.
About Universal Products & Experiences
Universal Products & Experiences (UP&E) globally drives the expansion and elevation of NBCUniversal’s iconic collection of brands, intellectual properties, characters, and stories based on the company’s extensive portfolio of properties created by Universal Pictures, Illumination, DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. The division executes this through innovative physical and digital products, as well as engaging retail and product experiences across our expansive global theme park destinations (for both owned and third-party IP), location-based venues, e-commerce product platforms, and retailers around the world. Along with global brand strategy and creative, UP&E’s lines of business include Consumer Products and Games, along with Theme Parks Products & Retail. UP&E is a division of Universal Destinations & Experiences, part of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
More information is available at universalproductsexperiences.com.
About Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica began as one of the best television series ever made and has spawned into one of most beloved sci-fi franchises of all time. The series celebrates the fight to save the human race as a small but determined fleet quests for the fabled planet Earth while being hunted by their nemeses, the robot Cylons.
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