Wildgate – Pilot Your Crew, Claim the Artifact
Wildgate has tactical ship-to-ship combat and fast-paced first-person action for PvPvE multiplayer! Developed by Moonshot Games, a studio of Dreamhaven (the company founded by former Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime) that also serves as the game’s publisher, Wildgate is scheduled to launch July 22, 2025 for PC (Steam), PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, with an open beta in the works for June 9–16 as part of Steam Next Fest.
Wildgate is a cooperative FPS game, you play as spaceship’s crew exploring strange and uncharted planets. You may upgrade your ship, protect it from other players who can attack you, and also venture to attack and loot their ships. There are five types of ships in the game and you can select any one, then upgrade it to the maximum. You can fight alongside your teammates or with the armaments on your ship.
Gameplay and Setting
Gameplay and Setting
The game is set in a deadly and ever-changing sector of space where Prospectors mine Artifacts and hunt for resources in order to survive. This enormous land of exploration and explosions is a procedurally generated map crafted by the very talented developers/modellers over at Reach. Nothing is stable in the Reach, its every match generating fresh dangers and opportunities at random. The ships and weapons are already more advanced, such as with laser rays, guns or plasma cannons.
Players select their prospector from an array of colorful characters, wielding different tools such as stealth drones, hacking equipment and exploding gear. As the pilot, boarder or scout, your team depends on you to fill that one. Upon choosing the prospector, players are put into group of four and load up on a spaceship. The game begins and they are in the Reach, where several teams attempt to engage in a battle for survival.
The game includes ship battles that last for the duration of two or more squadrons, where only the strongest wins and from the losers becomes food.
ship-to-ship battles
In addition to cat- and-mouse ship-to-ship combat, the game will feature intense and bloody face-to-face fighting on the ground in first-person perspective; players will board their enemies' vessels for bloody showdowns with enemy crew. This on-foot fighting can also emerge when other squads board your ship to fight you.
On-foot battles
Oops you need to last until the end for victory! You can either escape the battlefield with no resources and get loot from the wrecked ships, kill off all of your enemy squads you come across or locate the Artifact (a precious item that grants escape), then make it back to your own ship for victory – it’s up to your way of fighting. But when you fight there are only two ways to win: race or gun.
The fighting is very sophisticated, that the damage you do and caused damage can certainly see. It also has a variety of landmarks you can visit for tasks and rewards. Reward can change by changing the hardness of these point of interests. In addition, players can gather resources including red and blue space rocks that provide fuel to the ship’s boost or help cool down its core.
Here is a synopsis of all the gameplay components:
- Gameplay Players will take quests to locate the Artifact, an item of great importance that will facilitate escape.
- They may optionally sail to destroy other crews, the last surviving crew being declared the winner.
- Attractions, including Monoliths and Vaults, provide further challenges and rewards in the game.
- Interesting things may have plus-minus factors on difficulty and quality rewards.
- Players can mine resources, including red and blue space rocks that fuel the ship’s boost and control the cooling of its core.
- Ship combat is a major part of the game, with players employing cannons, gadgets and tactical antics to outwit and blast opponents.
- Ships can also be improved with a wide variety of modules, for example, stronger doors that open only from the inside.
- Abilities such as becoming invisible while on a spaceship are at players’ disposal.
- Upon explosion, nearby ships and players will be dealt damage, and all the resources that were onboard the ship are then dropped on death.
Key Aspects
Key Aspects
- Outrun, Outgun, Outsmart: The game’s tagline emphasizes the various avenues to outplay your enemies.
- Crew Cooperatives: Wildgate focuses on the union and co-working of a four-crew gameplay.
- Extraction Shooter Mechanics: Players need to grab the Artifact and escape in order to win, just like extraction shooters.
- Exploration and Combat in space The game combines the action of exploring a procedurally generated universe with fighting enemy ships.
- Unique Ships & Prospectors – Players can select a variety of ships and prospectors, with their each having its own unique abilities and play style.
System Requirements
PC System Requirements
Minimum (1080p):
- Windows 10/11
- Intel i7‑8700K / Ryzen 5 5600X
- 16 GB RAM
- Nvidia GTX 1070 Ti / Radeon RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 (8 GB VRAM)
- DirectX 12
- 15 GB SSD
Recommended (1440p+):
- Intel i7‑9700K / Ryzen 7 3700X
- Same RAM/storage
- Nvidia GTX 2070 / RX 5700 XT / Arc A580
Release
Date
Key Dates
- Community Preview: April 10–14 (sign-ups via official website)
- Open Beta: June 9–16 during Steam Next Fest
- Full Launch: July 22, 2025
Check out the official reveal trailer:
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