Press Release: Astro Ranch

It's a bit of an Astro Ranch Saturday here at SquareGo and as well as an exclusive hands on preview and an interview with Paul Farley about the game, here we bring you the press release with links to in game footage. Enjoy!

At long last I'm very pleased to be able to share with you full details of our upcoming AAA iPhone title "Astro Ranch", plus first look at the game-play trailer for the game.

Best described (or at least the best attempt we can come up with) as a mixture of Farmville, Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and Futurama, Astro Ranch is perhaps the most unique and interesting game to hit the iPhone since the launch of the App Store!

The game takes place in the far reaches of the galaxy as the player attempts to build a ranching empire from scratch having crash landed on a strange alien planet. The player may choose to play as either one of the Starlight twins, Sindy or Max as the action blends resource management (farming crops/raising livestock) with RPG elements (mini-quests) and action (fishing and panning for gold mini-games)

So we welcome you to touch down in our stunning 3D world, meet weird alien characters, enjoy some awesome 16 bit inspired music and communicate, compete and collaborate with your friends using social features (powered by Scoreloop and Facebook).

The game-play trailer can be found here.

The intro story trailer here.

Features

• A unique game experience - exclusive to iPhone

• Farming game-play mashed up with RPG and mini-games

• Awesome 3D world to explore, with beautiful animation

• Lots of strange alien characters to befriend

• Go fishing, pan for gold, steal fruit from trees and visit aliens!

• Large range of crops, livestock and upgrades to buy

• Message friends, send them gifts and credits and many more social features powered by Scoreloop

• Lots of downloadable content available from the online shop

Launch Details

• Date - week of the 21st February

• Price - initially discounted to £1.79 / $2.99 / Euro 2.39

• Exclusive golden statue of the mayor available from the shopkeeper for the first 50,000 downloads

Read our Hands On Exclusive here.

If you want to know more about the development then go here.