And once more, this entry is gonna be a bit different. Where the PAT5 report was a text-only description of the test, the PAT6 report was more of a travel-journal, with lots of images added. To kee...

The sixth big Pre-Alpha Test for Stars Reach took place on Saturday, Nov 2. There were a few repeats of PAT5 between that and this sixth large test, so I’m not entirely sure if “6” is the correct n...

The fifth Pre-Alpha Test (short: PAT5) for Stars Reach took place on Saturday, Oct 19. Like the previous tests, it ran for two hours and was focussed on very specific aspects of the game. The firs...

Stars Reach is a MMORPG project that’s currently early in development. Pre-Alpha testing started mid-summer 2024, with invites being sent out per emails. How to get in Sign up at the official ...

While this explainer is carefully made to fit in with everything we’ve learned about the game so far - there is no guarantee it will match the final game. It’s a best effort educated guesstimate - ...

The Elephant in the Room Let’s get this out of the way first: video games are getting increasingly expensive to make. And MMORPGs never were cheap to begin with. And going back to the old method o...

Reception of the Announcement Trailer The Stars Reach Announcement Trailer landed on June 28, 2024. And some of the shown scenes looked like this: while others looked more like this: Some ...

Humble Beginnings Playable Worlds annnounced their existence on October 3, 2019. A press release about a 2.7 million dollar seed investment to a company founded by Raph Koster and Eric Goldberg wa...

Turn-based Combat Roleplaying video games (CRPGs) began their existence as a genre in the mid 1970s on mainframe computers, inspired by pen & paper roleplaying games (TTRPGS) such as Dungeons ...