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:

Hi everyone, we’ve been super busy supporting all the new players which have come to Outscape over the past two and a half weeks (we launched on Steam Early Access on October 22nd). Thanks for all of your help onboarding those new players!

One thing we did not anticipate was scoring a ‘Very Positive’ on Steam so early. It actually feels like ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ (the highest possible score) is within reach. At least 500 reviews are needed plus at least somewhere between 90% and 95% positive reviews. We are incredibly thankful to all the community members that purchased Outscape and also left kind and useful reviews for other players. At the time of writing, there are 98 reviews and 90% are positive. In fact, around half of the negative reviews came from China where connectivity is challenging. We’ve made some changes which seems to have helped this problem.

Here is our sales chart. As you can see we launched with a pop, but then things slowed.