I couldn’t tell you whether Raiders Of The Broken Planet is a better proposition now that the cooperative brawl-o-shooter has relaunched as free-to-play, but I can tell you that it’s better-named: it now goes by Spacelords. What a name! Spacelords! I support all game names which sound like something I’d come up with, though I suppose we’d soon run out of X>lords, MurderX>s, and X>-o-Y>ers. The point is: all and sundry are now invited to bash in robots and moonmen, while maybe dodging a special enemy controlled by an invading fifth player.

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MercurySteam’s four-player cooperative (and sometimes 4v1) shoot-o-brawler Raiders Of The Broken Planet will relaunch as fully free-to-play in August under the new name of Spacelords, the Spanish studio announced today. Since its 2017 launch, Raiders has run under a shareware-ish model of giving the starter campaign away free then charging a tenner for each extra campaign (three so far). Game director Enric lvarez says they hoped this “would open it up to a large number of users, but it didn’t work as we planned.” And so, F2P. (more…)

The problem with launching a multiplayer shooter is that players are part of the content. Without players, you’ve only got half a package, even if there is a single-player mode. MercurySteam’s Raiders of the Broken Planet (a Gears of War-styled co-op shooter with a light PvP twist) has always looked rather nice, but without people playing it, it’s a hard sell, and the game just never got off the ground.

In an attempt to zap some life back into Raiders in time for the next episodic campaign release, for the next two days, you can grab the entire game (including three DLC solo/co-op campaigns) free on Steam to keep forever. Grab it now, and you’ve got something for your crew to do over the weekend.

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