Project Genom coming to Steam Early Access in May

You may not have heard about Project Genom which is a sci-fi MMORPG from developer Neuronhaze but it’s been in closed testing for a while now.

Project Genom is an Unreal Engine 4 powered title which was greenlit and places players in a battle for survival on mankind’s new home called Avalon. It is a shooter with MMO elements such as skills, levelling and crafting.

Neuronhaze has revealed what will be added to the game once it hits Early Access.

• Character customization, which includes the change of gender, facial features, hairstyles, clothes and other aspects of appearance.
• Updated animation, combat and world interaction systems.
• Skill leveling system, which will include 12 paths divided into 6 skills with many nodes that can open new character abilities.
• Organism changes – the development of internal organs of a character becomes an important part of the game. In each of the 6 organism systems you can boost your organs with medicines, undergo mutations or replace them with synthetic analogues. Depending on your choice, your character may acquire new abilities and possibilities for development.
• Crafting system – you can extract resources and create weapons, armor, medicines, and other game items by learning different combinations of materials. Using one and the same blueprint, you may craft an item out of gold, wolfram, steel or titanium, with items having totally different properties.
• Opportunity to play in party with your friends, which will make the game experience more interesting and could make tackling certain tasks easier.
• Transport – big distances are easier to cover with a personal quad bike, which will increase character mobility.
• Bosses – you can face off not only with regular mobs but also with incredibly powerful enemies. Find their weak spots, use the whole arsenal of your skills, join parties and fight for deliciously lucrative rewards.
• Personal cabin – you will have your very own personal cabin that you are free to enlarge by opening up new sections and getting unique possibilities. You can always open your cabin to your friends to demonstrate your achievements.
• World exploration – there is no one “correct” way to play the game. Every task may be completed in different ways, and the choice of this or that way affects not only skills and abilities you get but could also impact the fate of the whole world.

More details can be found on the official site and it sounds and looks quite interesting. When we took a very early look at the game a while back it still needed some fleshing out but looked promising. There’s was also not a single dragon or dwarf in sight so that makes a refreshing change.