Publisher Prime Matter has revealed a gameplay overview video on its official YouTube channel for the upcoming third-person shooter game Scars Above, developed by Mad Head Games. The game is scheduled to release for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam on February 28.

The new trailer showcases actual gameplay footage and briefly introduces the background of the game, which takes place in a mysterious alien world. It also previews the third-person fights against the dangerous creatures that inhabit it, and the research, upgrade, and weapon crafting system featured in the game.

The game is a challenging sci-fi third-person action-adventure shooter that combines the satisfying feeling of having mastered challenges with an exciting and complex story in a mysterious world.

In Scars Above, a colossal and enigmatic alien structure appears in Earth’s orbit and stuns the entire world, humanity names it: The Metahedron. The Sentient Contact Assessment and Response Team (SCAR), consisting of scientists and engineers, is sent to investigate.

Things don’t go as planned and the Metahedron hauls the team across space onto a mysterious extrasolar planet. Playing the role of Dr. Kate Ward, a SCAR member, who wakes up dazed, and alone in a strange, hostile environment. Determined to survive, you set out to find your crew and unravel the mystery behind what’s happened.

▍Scars Above Gameplay

Survive Against All Odds

Kate is an astronaut and a scientist, not a soldier, but she’s resourceful and determined to do anything to survive. Use a combination of ranged weapons, devices, consumables, and melee attacks, you need to manage stamina as you run, dodge, exploit weak points, and discover effective tactics to defeat your foes. Combine different elemental attacks to beat the odds and breakthrough otherwise impassable obstacles. Craft different items and gadgets to aid you against the countless threats in this exoplanet.

Explore a Mysterious Exoplanet

Immerse yourself in a carefully crafted adventure, inspired by the science-fiction classics. Explore an alien world filled with countless threats, gorgeous landscapes, and ruins hinting of an ancient, yet advanced, civilization that somehow disappeared. Journey through different biomes, such as marshlands, freezing wastelands, underground caverns and alien facilities, all with their own set of challenges, enemies, secrets and environmental hazards.

Embark on a Research Journey

Kate is a scientist to her core and you’ll use that scientific expertise to extract information from your surroundings by scanning artifacts, materials, and creatures in order to learn about their features, properties, and weaknesses. As you explore your surroundings, you will conduct analysis and gain knowledge that will allow you to craft new gadgets, weapons and unlock abilities in Xenobiology and Engineering trees.