About The Specimen
The Specimen is a single player tactical role playing game with a science fiction theme. It is being developed by genepistudios and will be released on September 1, 2026.
Something is out there, and humanity's answer is a bioweapon launched on a dying ship. Each run sends your specimen further into hostile space — evolving, fighting, scavenging — until the fuel runs dry or the vessel breaks apart. What you salvage comes home. The rest doesn't. Each run is one vessel. One specimen. One tank of fuel. You're sent to push through star systems crawling with alien threa…


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Frequently Asked Questions
The Specimen is a tactical role playing game with science fiction theme. Common tags for The Specimen include turn-based, roguelite, 2d, aliens, choices matter and others.
The Specimen is available on PC and Windows.
The Specimen is scheduled to be released on September 1, 2026.
The Specimen was developed by genepistudios.
The Specimen is a single player game.
Similar games include Pegs & Sorcery, The Last Admiral, Compulse, MineGeon: Renegades, The Eighth Squad and others.


















