It’s time to look at yet another Unreal Engine 5 Game. And once more, it’s an Early Access title: StarRupture. As with any first look at unfinished games like this, we must keep that in mind. A lot can change over the course of the Early Access Period – content-wise and on the technical side.

But before we get into all of that, let me welcome you to another Linux Gameplay Performance Analysis.

I spent a bit over 15 hours in StarRupture, and what I found was a combination of factory automation, a first-person shooter, and open-world exploration, with some lore to find. Whether there’s actually a meaningful story in the game is not yet clear to me. In any case, as the player you’r a puppet of large corporations that continuously vie for more and more resources. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

Regarding performance, the question is whether StarRupture is a typical Unreal 5 heavyweight. Does this game burn down your system, like the fiery in-game eruptions every hour? Or like all the Skynet AI data centers our world at some point?

Let’s find out.

I also have a German version of this video.

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