Today, publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Hexagon Games delightedly announced the release of the first major update to come to popular sci-fi city-builder Sphere – Flying Cities, along with an updated Early Access roadmap, divulging to players what can be expected for the game in 2022 leading up to the full launch.
The update, aptly named “Industry and Pollution,” introduces a whole new mechanic to the engaging city-builder-meets-survival-game, allowing players to regulate the air within the biosphere, along with several shiny new structures to take care of the pollution problem. After all, when you have a bustling metropolis safely ensconced in a giant protective dome, miles up in the atmosphere, ensuring your citizens can breathe clean air is a rather high priority.
While being so high in the sky does keep citizens safe from the ravaged wasteland on the surface below, the extreme elevation does come with its disadvantages; the air outside is too thin, and the air inside requires constant care and cleansing to keep the citizens happy and healthy. In order to do this, the clever scientists and builders in the city have crafted some brainy solutions. With the “Industry and Pollution” update, players can now construct air collector plants, air circulation towers, gas storage, and refineries to remove pollutants from the air and get the community breathing freely once more. With resource scarcity causing such an issue, it only makes sense to reduce, reuse, and recycle; two new resources — compressed air and oxygen — are now available for players to use.
