Our original plan when launching the closed beta of Xenonauts-2 was to have an Early Access launch at the end of March, but unfortunately we felt the game was not ready to go on general sale on Steam and GOG.

We instead decided to delay the launch until the game is ready, which we are estimating to be roughly three months (taking us to late June) – but this deadline may slip further. As negative Steam reviews from Early Access stay with a product for its entire lifetime, we’re strongly incentivised to only launch into Early Access when the game is fully playable and stable!

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Today marks a big milestone for Xenonauts 2 – we are starting our Closed Beta period and allowing people to play the strategy layer for the first time!

If you’ve backed this Kickstarter at £25 or above, you should receive a Steam or GOG key from our partners at Humble today at around 11AM Pacific time. If you are not a £25+ Kickstarter backer, unfortunately you’re going to need to wait until our Early Access launch in March 2019 to buy the game. We’d love to sell access to the beta, but sadly Steam / GOG tend to take a dim view of people selling private beta keys!

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Now the dust has settled on our successful Kickstarter campaign, it’s time for a progress update on Xenonauts-2! There’s lots of exciting stuff to talk about, even though the lingering admin from the Kickstarter has kept us busy and the summer holiday period means that we’ve frequently been without one or more important team members!

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