Today Cloud Imperium Games released a new video about its growing persistent space simulator Star Citizen.
The video focuses on the new focus on the delivery of content for players to enjoy, which has been established side-by-side with the other focus on polishing and fixing the issues plaguing the game at the expense of adding new features.
The video showcases the “Fight for Pyro” event in which players are prompted to choose one of three factions and to perform missions for them as a follow-up to the previous “Save Stanton” event.
We also hear how going forward storytelling will proceed in parallel tracks similar to TV shows that will alternatively progress during monthly patches.
You can check out the video below.
If you’re unfamiliar with Star Citizen, it’s a crowdfunded project directed by Chris Roberts of Wing Commander fame. It’s a multiplayer sandbox space simulator that has been in development for over a decade and in alpha for several years. It will be released exclusively for PC at some point in the future.
The crowdfunding total has just passed $786 million and it’s currently at $786,101,595. The game also has 5,538,086 registered users, albeit not all of them are paid customers. Many simply create an account to enjoy the occasional free-to-play periods.
Incidentally, 2024 was the second-best year ever for Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign, missing the record only by roughly one million.
A few months ago, Cloud Imperium Games showcased plenty of features and tech coming to Star Citizen, on top of the overall vision for version 1.0, which will be the full release of the game, albeit it doesn’t yet have a date.
A single-player campaign titled Squadron 42 is also in development, starring an exceptional cast of famous actors including Mark Hamill, Henry Cavill, Gary Oldman, Liam Cunningham, Gillian Anderson, and more. Recently we saw plenty of gameplay and learned that it’ll release in 2026.
Since the project has been in development for over a decade, you can also see how Squadron 42 evolved since its first reveals.
Full disclosure: the author of this article has backed Star Citizen’s crowdfunding campaign.
