Helsinki-based sport developer Order of Meta formally unveiled its new cellular sport, a PvPvE extraction shooter known as Cargo Hunters. Alongside the sport announcement, the studio additionally introduced it has raised $3.3 million in a seed spherical of funding. It plans to place the capital in direction of the sport’s launch, which is deliberate for later this yr.
Cargo Hunters is a mobile-first title, which means it’ll ultimately launch on different platforms, wherein gamers are robots preventing for assets on a ravaged, dystopian Earth. The event workforce plans to launch the sport in beta in 2024.
Alexey Sazonov, Order of Meta’s CEO and co-founder, advised GamesBeat about Cargo Hunters: “We are super excited about how much innovation is not done yet, how much it’s still needed in this genre.” Sazonov stated the workforce didn’t need to make one other “camo-core” extraction shooter however wished to attempt one thing completely different. “We have robotic characters and enemies, which allows a lot of twists within the genre. There’s not much you can do with a totally realistic setting.”
Sazonov says that the workforce can also be hoping for Cargo Hunters to have a deep metagame (befitting the studio’s identify): “We want more, deeper metagame, better quests, more development of things beyond the gameplay session. The whole concept of extraction shooters is still in its infancy. There are a lot of things to experiment with, to try.”
GEM Capital’s funding
GEM Capital led the spherical, with Korea Funding Companions, Play Ventures, and The Video games Fund taking part. A part of the attraction of Order of Meta’s challenge, in line with GEM Capital, is the success the founders, Sazonov and COO Sergei Koziakov, discovered with their earlier studio, Panzerdogs, and its sport Tacticool.
Kirill Gurskiy, GEM’s managing director, stated in regards to the funding in an announcement, “GEM Capital’s investment in Order of Meta demonstrates our confidence in the founders’ vision and the studio’s expertise in midcore and hardcore genres. Following the success of Tacticool, we firmly believe in the team’s ability to deliver high-quality mobile massive multiplayer experiences with deep metagame and top-notch visuals for audiences worldwide.”
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