Games publisher Hooded Horse, working with developer Wild Fields, has announced Rogue Carrier, a roguelite colony-management strategy game. Players captain a stranded science ship on an alien planet, piloting it across a hostile ocean while trying to survive, learn about the world and ultimately escape. The announcement, covered by Rock Paper Shotgun, matters as a fresh take on a lineage of carrier-based strategy games with few modern successors.

The vessel, a giant mega carrier called The Behemoth, can carry entire buildings and production lines on its deck. According to the trailer, players can steer the ship in third-person, plot waypoints between islands on a map, pilot individual planes and vehicles, and arrange factory buildings in Tetris-like fashion, with limited deck space forcing specialisation. Combat has an autobattler flavour as turrets fire on aggressive sea life, while roguelite event cards present crisis choices that typically cost resources or upset the crew. The RPS writer likens it warmly to the 2001 RTS-action hybrid Hostile Waters and Wes Anderson's film The Life Aquatic.