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Lunchbreak-friendly space 4X Stellaris Nexus is out now in early access

Whatboy and Paradox Interactive's 4X spin-off Stellaris Nexus has boldly gone where many other games have gone before and entered early access. Apologies, I realise that reference is more appropriate to Paradox's other recent strategy release, Star Trek: Infinite, but I don't know the Stellaris fiction well enough to think of an appropriate in-joke. If you are similarly lacking in Stellaris knowledge, please rejoice in the fact that Nexus is a stripped-down, sped-up, turn-based version of the legendary space sim, which emphasises snappy tactical and strategic relationships over backstory.


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Open Beta Closing Soon!

Hello, members of the Galactic Council!

Everyone at Whatboy Games would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who joined in the Beta this week!

We’ve had so much fun developing and testing this game that we’ve been dying to get it out into players’ hands. It’s been amazing for the whole team to see so many of you enjoying the game and sharing with us your feedback and stories of galactic domination.

Your feedback, even over a single week, has been invaluable, and I hope you can see from our response that we are dedicated to using this beta and Early Access period to make the best game possible that can be enjoyed how you want to play it.

The Open Beta will close tomorrow, Dec 12th at 15:00 CET.

Your progress, such as unlocked Leaders and Ascension Level, will carry over to the Early Access release at 17:00 CET on the same day.

The game will be priced at $14.99 | £12.99 | €14.99. We hope to see you there!

If you choose to continue playing into the Early Access and you would like to see the game grow, we would really appreciate you leaving us a review on Steam. Anything we can do to help the initial launch buzz will draw more and more players into the game!

We’ll see you on Nexus!
Whatboy Games

PS: We’ve got some gameplay statistics from the Beta to share with you:

Most played factions:
  1. Ix’Idar Star Collective
  2. Chinorr Combine
  3. Turtuon Federation
  4. United Nations of Earth
  5. Voor Technocracy
  6. Kel-Azaan Republic
  7. Roderian Empire
  8. Kingdom of Yondarim
  9. Glebsig Foundation

Faction win rates:
  1. United Nations of Earth
  2. Turtuon Federation
  3. Kel-Azaan Republic
  4. Glebsig Foundation
  5. Ix’Idar Star Collective
  6. Voor Technocracy
  7. Chinorr Combine
  8. Roderian Empire
  9. Kingdom of Yondarim


Open Beta Starts NOW!

The Open Beta is LIVE NOW! Gather your friends and jump into the game for free from now until December 12.

If you missed the (fun) little bits of content we pushed out yesterday and why we're changing our release date and instead putting the game in open beta today, here's a reminder:

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We at Whatboy have been working hard to make a super fun multiplayer experience where banter, backstabbery, and fighting to become the ultimate ruler of the galaxy is not only great fun but also creates a lot of discussion and trading of stories afterward. We've seen this to be a general theme throughout internal and closed playtesting.

Now, with the open beta, we're looking to stress test and get any feedback that you might have. We'd love to hear your thoughts here on the Steam discussions, or over on our Discord server.

Jump in now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2723680/

Good luck, have fun!
- The Stellaris Nexus team

Stellaris Nexus - aka "Stellaris in an hour" - delays its early access release for a week-long open beta


Stellaris Nexus hinges off one of the downsides of the Paradox space game’s epic scale - the amount of time it takes to finish a match - to present a bite-sized side dish of 4X nibbles if you only have an hour to play instead of, say, a day. Now that plate of nibbles is offering up, er, a basically identical plate of bite-sized nibbles that you don’t have to pay for right away, as the game has seen its early access release date - planned for tomorrow, no less - replaced by a last-minute week-long open beta.


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