Star Traders 2 RPG Headed for Early Access

Three years after the successful Kickstarter ended, Star Traders 2 is headed for Early Access on Steam.

In the 72nd update post to the Kickstarter, Trese Brothers announced that the alpha testers have been busy producing plenty of feedback over the last seven months. As a result, they are looking at putting the game into Early Access in October, on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Star Traders: Frontiers will also be coming to Android and iOS, but that won't be until 2018 at the earliest, though it won't leave Early Access until at least early 2018.

Here are a couple of potential questions answered:

Why Early Access?

We plan to use early access as a platform to continue the two-way communication and feedback loop with a larger player community. The alpha has allowed us to work with hundreds of Captains playing the game, and early access will give us access to thousands of new data points to test the limits of the game’s balance, and we will use this input to further fine tune the political, character, and combat simulators. We know can be reservations about early access games, but we’re focused on releasing a well-built, solid and polished game experience right out of the gate.

What will be the state of the game at Early Access launch?

Star Traders will be majority feature complete when we launch to early access. As a sandbox game, there is already an immense depth of exciting and fun ways for your Captain and crew to find their way in the big world. We are not plan to add many major new features after early access launch. The early access period instead will allow us to perfect balance the game’s ship and crew combat, improve the map generation, and further study and improve the economic and political simulation and the role that contact’s play within the larger galaxy. As we progress through the early access phase, different sections of the game’s story will also become available for play. That said, plans often change :P