Ten years in the making, this ambitious fusion of Elite-style space exploration and classic story-driven adventuring has finally left Steam Early Access!
Co-developers Bird In Sky and Crunchy Leaf Games are delighted to announce that 3030 Deathwar Redux – an intergalactic indie epic that fuses Elite-style space exploration with classic comedic adventuring – has finally released out of Steam Early Access. The game is also available now on Humble.
To celebrate the news, Bird in Sky and Crunchy Leaf Games have unveiled a brand new launch trailer, which showcases the game’s unique blend of genres and styles.
Ten years in the making, the game has been through a variety of iterations. After releasing an early version of 3030 Deathwar back in 2007, developer Bird In Sky teamed up with co-developer and publisher Crunchy Leaf Games to expand on the world, improve the gameplay, and add lots of Lucas Arts-inspired story content to the ambitious sci-fi indie title.
The result is 3030 Deathwar Redux – an inventive open-world space adventure with frantic combat, a story filled with weird and wonderful characters, and a gigantic universe with 30 star systems to explore and an array of quests to complete!
Amassing a passionate fanbase over the course of its development, 3030 Deathwar Redux has been called a 2D version of space epics Freelancer and Privateer, and has often been compared favourably to the beloved Escape Velocity series.
Matt Griffiths of Bird in Sky said: “For 3030, we set out making an homage to the space games of our youth as well as classic LucasArts adventure games, but over the ten years of development the game has become so much more than that.”
3030 Deathwar Redux has enjoyed a successful stint in Steam Early Access, with a 100% positive user rating, and a recent algorithm having placed it at #30 in a list of 1000 ‘Hidden Gems’ on Steam: the top-rated games that exist away from the ‘best sellers’ list. Now, the full version is being unleashed on the world.
“Not only have the graphics and audio been massively improved,” added Griffiths, “we also got to add lots of new gameplay ideas and fresh content we hadn’t dreamed of at the start. We’re extremely proud of what we’ve achieved, and are delighted to share our hard work with the world today.”
