Solar Expanse News

Greetings Space explorers!

In case you're wondering how our work is proceeding - we keep doing whatever rocket science necessary to launch our game to the next level!

Colonization

We keep expanding the ways to colonize other planets and make them habitable. With new systems, come new challenges, and we keep adding to the complexity of the issue by introducing human-operated facilities and energy supply systems, along with new buildings, resources and research to help achieve this task.

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Interstellar Ship

We’re sure you’re wondering about expanding to other planetary systems beyond our good old Solar System. As this is a huge milestone for civilization, building a spacecraft capable of transporting entire populations to places untouched by human foot is going to be one of our final tasks in space conquest. And once we’re able to do that… Who knows what may come next?


There's much more to come in the following months, so keep an eye on the sky, maybe you'll see a shooting star carrying more news!

Solar Expanse Dev Team

Greetings Space Explorers!

We are happy to announce that our demo has taken its ultimate form! It does not represent the final quality of the full release though, as it is still in development. Still, the current version of the demo will let you check out some cool features we've added to the game!

Planning missions by drag and drop

This is the biggest game-changer so far! We've read all your feedback carefully and decided to make this core part of our game more user-friendly. Now you can plan your missions by simply dragging a resource, module, or spacecraft on any object on the map or its orbit, and the plan mission window will open automatically, with the origin and destination filled in, and the dragged element already added to the mission. This shortens the task a lot and lets you plan so much more, and much faster! If you prefer the old planning system, don't worry - you can do it the classical way as well!
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New balance of resources
To improve the gameplay flow and ensure the necessity of building supply chains, we have redesigned and rebalanced resources on all objects! Now only two deposits are available on each object, therefore you must plan in a way that will optimize the flow of your economy, and examine objects carefully before setting off.

Automatic research
Once you start any research, the following ones will commence automatically upon the end of a previous one. Make sure to keep it in check - as much as it is possible to complete all available research in the demo, its order might be crucial for your success!


UI changes
We have introduced several tweaks to the UI, especially the plan mission window, to make it clearer, more understandable, and make sure that you can easily access all the necessary info, and see the summary of destinations, spacecraft, launch vehicle, and cargo at each stage of planning a mission.


We truly hope you'll enjoy your space enterprise!
Solar Expanse Dev Team

Greetings Space Explorers!

As the Space Exploration Fest commenced, we are proud to announce that the new, refreshed demo is finally out and ready to be played! This time, you'll be able to play through 30 years of space expansion. Embark on the cosmic conquest!

Please keep in mind that the demo does not represent the final form and quality of the game. We are still in the alpha stage of development, and there’s still much to be improved and developed.

Last but not least, make sure to send us feedback after playing the demo - to do this, you may use the ‘SEND FEEDBACK’ button in the game’s main menu, which will redirect you to a feedback form. Your opinions are of uttermost value, and we’d love to hear them out!

Solar Expanse Dev Team

Greetings Space Explorers!

Thank you for your activity and patience. The last few months were full of intense work to make the game just as you wanted it, based on your demo feedback. Your opinions and expectations are of utmost importance to us, therefore we’d like to hear more of them! Here’s a link to the new feedback form (will be also available in-game from the main menu): SURVEY AND CLOSED DEMO/ALPHA TEST SIGN UP
It will help us greatly not only to shape further development, but also choose new demo and alpha testers among you!



Research Tree
One of your biggest concerns in our previous demo was lack of research. Now there’s plenty! With the new extensive research tree, you will be able to keep developing and improving technologies to gain the edge you need in the space race!



Marketplace
Out of resources? Need money? No problem at all - with the new improved marketplace system you can trade on any object touched by human foot. Grow your economical power with market strategies!



Space Competition
One of the biggest changes which made its way to the game are other space agencies - right now, you can observe their activities, race with them to complete contracts or even trade! They might still be working a little more behind the scenes, but who knows how much they will impact your future exploration.

User Interface changes
Previous interface, although sufficient, was in need of overhaul in order to present to you all the information needed to plan your space missions more clearly. We’ve reworked spacing, frames and visuals, so that you don’t have to look for necessary info for too long.



New demo
Last, but not least, we’d like to announce that a new, refreshed demo version is coming on September 2nd! Despite not expanding much on contracts or exploration time, it will contain all the aforementioned features and many more QoL changes and bugfixes.

See you during the Space Exploration Fest!
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games

Hi Space Explorers!
It's been awesome two weeks, and we are extremely grateful to each and every one of you who wishlisted, downloaded and played our game. Your reception exceeded our expectations and motivated us to work even harder to deliver the full game you all wish to play.



Final weekend
This weekend marks the last opportunity to play the demo, it will be closed afterwards. Make sure to have as much fun with it as possible before it expires! Use this time to explore more of what the game has to offer, show it to your friends, make screenshots or videos to share with the community or outside of it.
Add to wishlist now and recommend the game to your friends!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369700/Solar_Expanse/

Final feedback request
To all of you who haven't provided any feedback yet - we'd like to tell you once again, that your opinions are invaluable to us, and we appreciate every voice of yours, as it helps us to set new directions in development. You can access the Demo survey in the game by clicking the button SEND FEEDBACK displayed in the main menu or click this link: Solar Expanse Demo Survey.

See you in space,
SolEx dev team @ Jutsu Games