Space noir roguelike Ostranauts is aiming for 1.0 in 2025, with help from Kitfox as publisher | Gaming

Post-apocalyptic roguelike Neo Scavenger is one of my favourite games, but its spacefaring followup Ostranauts, currently in Early Access, is currently too fiddly and complicated for me. Here’s some good news, then: Kitfox, masters of making impenetrable roguelikes more welcoming, have joined the project as publisher ahead of a planned 1.0 release in 2025.

Ostranauts is a “hardcore noir space-sim”, in which you scavenge shipwrecks in order to expand and customise your own ship. Every system onboard your vessel can be interacted with via its own panel of buttons and displays, and it’s all but inevitable that you will die due to your own incompetence or carelessness. The only hope is that the death is interesting.

I badly want to create a captain, hire a crew, build…