Hi everyone,

We’re very excited to announce that Outscape is now available to buy on Early Access on Steam! Get your copy now and take advantage of the 10% launch discount (this discount expires in a few days).

By purchasing the Early Access version of Outscape, you’ll be helping us to accelerate our development velocity and deliver more features to you faster! See our post Why we need to launch on Steam Early Access to find out more.

Get Outscape on Steam Early Access

New galaxies launched

As part of the Early Access release, two new galaxies have just been launched and are ready for you to join right now: Skirmish 1 and Main 1.

Dear Community,

You asked how you can help. Now the Outscape team needs your help urgently!

You probably know about our impending launch on Steam, if not you can read about it here. We need to ensure the Outscape launch is as successful as possible and the early weeks before and after launch are critical in deciding whether the game flops or takes off.

We’ve thought long and hard about how the community could help us into a position where we will launch successfully and narrowed it down to six highly impactful goals for you to drive. We think there are multiple ways of achieving these goals and we really need the community to get creative and drive these goals to make Outscape successful.

We will chart progress on these community goals and update those charts daily here. We will also do an additional weekly blog post with a bit of commentary on how things are going towards these goals too.

Hi everyone,

We’re releasing a new patch next week – on Monday if everything goes to plan – and are excited to confirm it’ll include treaties!

Pre-Beta galaxy closing to new players

But the new patch will also close the Pre-Beta galaxy to new players. This galaxy will continue as normal after the patch is released, just no more players will be able to join it.

The Pre-Beta galaxy filled up once already, was expanded, and is close to filling up again. We can’t expand it a second time, so we need to close it to new players with the next patch (there’s a chance it’ll fill up before then).

If you have already been sent an email invite but not yet joined the galaxy, there may still be time for you to join. Apologies in advance to any of you that try to join and find it’s already been closed to new players!

Hi everyone,

Congratulations to Pepelekus on winning the Skirmish galaxy!

Pepelekus crossed the 100k points winning line on Wednesday morning – needing only a month to do it – and wasted no time in letting us all know 🙂

Not only did they win the main competition, but they also managed to top each of the other 5 leaderboards while doing so. Very impressive!

You can see the final leaderboard standings at the end of this post (the live leaderboards will continue to change while the game is still running – we didn’t pause them).

And a big thanks to all of you that took part in the Skirmish galaxy. Your participation and help with testing the game is vital and always much appreciated.

Hi everyone,

On Tuesday we asked if the Alpha players wanted us to launch a second galaxy. The response was a definite YES from most players so we’re busy getting it ready.

We didn’t want to keep players waiting long so set a launch date less than a week away – Thursday April 4th at 15:00 UTC (we’re planning to release the next patch on Monday, if there are any significant issues around this we may have to delay the launch).

The galaxy will be called the ‘Alpha 3 Skirmish’ galaxy (A3 Skirmish) and all current Alpha players will be able to join. A3 Skirmish will run until one player wins!

The Alpha 3 main galaxy: remains the mainstay galaxy, will run alongside the experimental A3 Skirmish galaxy, and will continue after the A3 Skirmish galaxy has ended. So don’t neglect your existing games in the main galaxy!

Hi everyone,

The Alpha 2 Galaxy endgame contest has now closed (on Jan 7 2019) so it’s time to announce the winners!

The Alpha 2 galaxy – which has been running for over a year now – is still playable, but will collapse under the weight of its own gravity (well, get turned off) this Monday January 14th at around 11:00 UTC.

But the Alpha 3 galaxy is still in its infancy and not going anywhere soon, and with plenty of improvements and new features on the way – so stayed tuned…

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Before we announce the Alpha 2 galaxy winners, we have a favour to ask 🙂