Hi everyone,

All of the game galaxies have now finished and the game servers are offline. Things have been winding down since October last year and we apologize if you hadn’t caught any of our previous announcements or game lobby updates (see this post for more details).

A massive thank you once again for all of your support over the years!

As we said in our last post, we’ve been very fortunate that such an awesome community formed around the game despite the risks of an Early Access game. Your input and participation has always been greatly appreciated and without it Outscape would not have progressed as far as it did. We hope that you had a lot of fun playing!

We still believe some manifestation of the core concepts of Outscape has tremendous potential and hope to be able bring you another attempt further down the line. We’ll keep you posted 🙂

So it’s goodbye from all of us for now. Take care and we hope to see you again one day.

– The Outscape Dev Team

Hi everyone,

Back in October 2020 we paused Early Access sales on Steam and announced that we were working on trying to secure the long-term future of Outscape. In this post we’ll update you on that and what’s happening next. Apologies that we haven’t been able to sooner, this was due to ongoing negotiations.

TL;DR
We are pausing Early Access sales while we work on securing the long-term future of Outscape. The servers and galaxies will continue to run as normal in the meantime and the team is determined to move forwards.

Hi everyone,

A year ago we launched Outscape on Early Access. Since then our team has remained actively committed to improving the game to get it to the level of quality necessary for a full release. We’re not there yet – but we’ve made a hell of a lot of progress in the last year (and over the years preceding Early Access).

Hi everyone,

Outscape is a space strategy game contested by real players – not AI controlled players.

As you explore and expand your empire across a huge persistent galaxy, it’s these other real players and their own empires that you’ll encounter.

Some may become loyal allies that you fight alongside against a hostile enemy. Others you may never interact with, only briefly observe them pass harmlessly beyond the edges of your territory.

But wouldn’t it be better – and even more fun – if your own friends were also playing alongside you?

You and your buddies could discover the game together and join forces. Or compete against each other for bragging rights!

And what’s more – new galaxies have JUST launched! You and your friends can experience playing in a new galaxy from the beginning together.

Hi everyone,

We’ve been asked if we’re going to reset the Skirmish and Main galaxies because of the exploits that were introduced with Play with Friends. After analysing the data we’ve concluded it’s better to keep Skirmish and Main running and don’t plan to reset them at this time.

Across the playerbase the exploit was used to a relatively low degree, whereas a reset would affect everyone and likely cause much more frustration. Of the players that did use the exploit only a handful used it to a significant degree while others used it only once or twice. We do appreciate that if you are next to one of these players it will be dissapointing and we apologize to you for this. But for most of you it should have little to no affect on your game.

At some point we may well add a new game slot but that won’t happen before more new features are added – in particular those that make sense to be introduced with a new galaxy – or when a new game type is ready…

More Play with Friends Fixes on the Way

In the last patch we added some fixes to address how Play with Friends can be exploited. In the next patch we’re adding a couple more: