Starside Weekly – 11.26.2025
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Your weekly update on Stars Reach
NEW UPDATE NEXT WEEK
We have not yet announced what is coming in next week’s update but savvy observers have been watching our public roadmap.
Update notes will be posted next week. We will leave you some surprises for that post, but here’s the roadmap in the meantime.
FIRESIDE CHAT
Our next Fireside Chat will be Saturday, December 6, 2025, at 9:00 AM Pacific. Dave Georgeson will join us to describe the new update and answer questions about our roadmap and design choices.
NEW PLAYER ONBOARDING LIVESTREAM
Did you know that nearly anything in this game is (or will be) interactable? You just need the right tool. Most new players miss this (as we watch them on livestream or video.) There is so much to learn. So we’re going to try something new: hands-on new player onboarding.
Thursday, November 27, we will feature new player training for our weekly livestream. Everyone is welcome to join us in the game and we’ll help you get up-to-speed on Stars Reach. Or shy folks can watch us on Twitch.TV from a safe distance.
When the playtest opens at 9:00am Pacific (noon Eastern), please launch the game from your Steam library, create a new character, and make your way down the initial hallway. When you go through the gateway at the end of the hallway, you can then join us on the TPL Space Station.
CONTROLLED CHAOS INTERVIEWS LIGHT BATES
Technical Designer Light Bates explains elements of the GovBot update, the dev team’s reactions to how the players interacted with the GovBot, and tries not to leak anything too sensitive. And something about spam.
PLAYTEST SCHEDULE
The playtest continues with GovBot Update from Thursday (US Thanksgiving) morning through Tuesday morning, December 2, (119 hour test). Then next week we are installing a new game update with a quick initial test on Thursday, December 4, 2025.
LOGO MERCH AVAILABLE
We currently have three sets of logo merchandise in stock:
- The Transplanetary League set
- The Stars Reach logo set
- The Infinite Worlds set
HOW YOU CAN HELP
If there is one thing you can do to help us, you can wishlist us on Steam. This makes a difference for the algorithm and also helps on the day we eventually launch on Steam. Thank you for this support.
