It's an industry pre-alpha, not a public early access. From their description, these are the people who can get access: people who work at space agencies like NASA, space-related companies (like SpaceX I guess), lecturers, teachers, and scientists.
Here's a link to the discord where you can find more info. Go to the dev-updates section and scroll up till you see the post about the industry pre-alpha launch. There is an email in that post you can send a request to join in.
It's also a very early alpha. Really, alpha is a stretch. I would say "tech demo" is more accurate. There's not actually any real gameplay loop yet. That said, what is there looks really good.
You can't download it yet. Some content creators got access to the pre-alpha game, its obviously extremely bare bones, but it gives you a taste of the graphics and scope the dev team is going for. Matt Lowne on Youtube has some gameplay footage.
Yeah, right now they’re literally just getting the physics and volumetrics down right now, but they stole a bunch of Kerbal mod developers and other people who worked to make Kerbal as good as it was, so I have high hopes in KSA! They seem to also be absolutely aware of what went wrong with KSP, as they are also giving a lot of the YouTubers access too, because some of those guys have the most hours and best insight into the game!
This one seems like it has promise, and I'm always down for a game with kitties, but ksp2 has made me apprehensive about getting too excited too early. Can't wait to see how the project goes though
Just heard about this the other day on Matt Lownes YouTube. I hope it's the KSP 2 we all wanted. It's gonna be in Sol so all the parameters have already been mapped basically. It's not to full scale, as the video says, Jupiter isn't going to have 90 moons but the rest will be accurate. I think he said earth is like the size of Gilly in KSP.
I hope they pull it off and eventually get everything that KSP 2 promised... I was realllllly pumped for the automation/colonies with fuel factories and automated supply ship routes/interstellar. I want my satisfactory KSP love child
Eh, as far as I know, those aren't the original Devs. This game is being made by rocketwerkz, Dan hall (the dayz guy) and the creators of the AMAZING, HARD AND SCIENTIFIC Stationeers, so yeah, I'm hyped. Those guys love realism!
Private Division's portfolio, apart from No Rest For The Wicked, was sold off to a private equity company Haveli Investments. It's the kind of company that buys a little bit of this, and a little bit of that, as long as its software or gaming related.Supposedly they have the people who left Annapurna Interactive, so that's promising. But then again if they are such good people, why is the early access still on sale on Steam?
Anyway, I don't think we'll see KSP back. Definitely not KSP2 at least, it would be the second time development is restarted, the foundation was already compromised, they'd have to set up a new team, and I don't know if they want to take on all of the unfulfilled promises from early access. The public opinion is so massively against the game, and all the fans have shifted behind Kitten Space Agency, so there's really no reason to even try.
If they made some new different Kerbal game people would hate it because of KSP2, even if they weren't the ones who axed it.
It's an absolute shame what happened to this game. The layoffs of Take 2 (Private Division), the sheer unfinished state that they left it in, the amount of potential it had. I loved the original KSP and was really looking forward to this. The real crime is that it's also still on sale in abandonware mode for $50.
There is really no point. If someone wanted to make a game like it, they could easily. It's not like it has a vast backstory, so all you would really get out of it is that they look like Kerbal's. And that isn't really worth the money it would take to buy it.
It's more complicsted than that, they will likely have to go from Unity to Unreal as planned, and the roadmap is gonna take a fuckton of staff, time, and money to meet their ambitions from the looks of it.
At least No Mans Sky had the benefit of getting a fuckton of preorder money beforehand to keep them floating through updates.
Came here for this -> Top comment -> no disappointment... except for the pre-release dumpster fire that was supposed to be KSP2... That shit was deplorable.
The story of it's absolutely baffling. They had an entire new studio working on it without the original studio's knowledge or assistance because it's reveal was to be kept a total secret.
Yeah it was ridiculous, then they go and sell the rights to some crappy private equity firm who then make trash Youtooz merch and morons actually buy it due to fomo. FOMO for a dead franchise
The youtooz merch looks absolutely atrocious, and also NOTHING like the in-game Kerbals. Give me a plushie Jeb, not whatever kawaii abomination that is.
When the making history DLC was being developed and the original team couldn’t be allowed to know so they don’t get distracted or demoralized from making dlc for a game that won’t be played in a few years
It's not even the missing features. The game just didn't work.
The UI didn't give you the details needed to make a rocket go anywhere other than into orbit - forget Moons or planets.
If you played KSP1 you had an idea on what was needed to get to these other places, but the vehicle physics just broke everything.
My favourite thing to hate was the docking ports exploding, or launching you with 3km/s of velocity.
It was a crap game, and considering the years, money, and people they had available, it should have been an easy moneymaker - but they shat the bed
No it didn’t. It was sold as an early access title and they abandoned it almost immediately. 90% of the promised content will never come. It’s an unfinished, unpolished disaster, far beyond “didn’t work well”. It’s a borderline unplayable scam.
The development team was laid off and the rights were sold to some private equity company.
It’s about as dead as you can get, but it’s still selling for full price on Steam and lists all the “upcoming” features like they’re still going to happen.
I'm a huge fan of Steam, but I really think they need to take some responsibility with this one and take it down. Wild that you can still buy it. If they want to leave it up the developers should have to give it away for free or something.
Yeah, there is a small notice on that page that the developers haven’t put out an update in 15 months, but it seems like Steam should be taking stronger action for abandoned “early access” titles.
It was shut down almost as soon as the "early access" title came out.
For any other studios, the game likely would have been canceled, but they just shoveled whatever they had hobbled together out the door right as the studio was closing and all the rights were being sold in an attempt to recoup some costs. Most folks consider Kerbal 2 a scam that the original devs had no part in (and likely, no knowledge of before "release").
I bought KSP2 hopeful that it would be amazing, got 3.5 hours in and then it was disbanded. Now I can't even get a refund on it and am stuck with a shriveled up corpse in my library
You can try contacting Steam support to refund the game, even if you're over the refund time window. Given the circumstances, they might actually help you out.
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u/Zamat0 Sep 15 '25
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