Starborne is a take on the grand-strategy 4X genre with the added powerful impact of being a multiplayer game played in real-time. In Starborne each game will last six months culminating in a decisive endgame.

You start with a fledgling station and as you invest in its infrastructure you will see it take shape and its borders grow, bringing unclaimed territories under your sovereignty. Soon it will be time to build another station with its own unique purpose within your master-plan. Will the next station be a center of research? A military compound? Or an industrial complex?

In Starborne there are multiple paths to success. Spymasters use their gathered intelligence to steer others’ ambitions to their own end. Explorers go on star treks searching for hidden riches and fame while industry moguls establish vast trade networks and utilize the final frontier's boundless resources. Spartan defenders focus on impregnable defenses and use their fleets to protect their sovereignty and that of their allies while Space-Napoleons use their offensive fleets to plunder opponents and pave their path to glory.

With over 180,000 registered players and after 77,000 days or 211 years of game time played during its Alpha, Starborne will be heading into Open Beta on April 2nd with a roster of new additions and improvements.

With over five years of empire building, political intrigue and galactic warfare under its belt, Starborne is about to enter the next exciting stage of its development cycle including a brand new game map based on the lessons learnt from past Alphas, as well as dedicated safer starting zones and higher resource yielding areas that will incentivise expansion and make the game more dynamic.

For the first time ever, there will be three unique ways to win a game of Starborne; Military conquest deep in the galaxy, industrial superiority, or domain by controlling the most amount of space. Additionally a core focus has been put on making the game more robust and new player friendly.

Speaking about the Open Beta launch, Stefán Gunnarsson, co-founder and CEO of Solid Clouds said, “I’m so proud of the new map design. It really manages to condense all the lessons we’ve learned over the past 5 years. With it, we are both catering to more play styles and also able to supercharge the deeply player-driven political side of the game.“

The key features and additions being introduced for the Starborne Open Beta:

• A new map with zones that encourage expansion and empire building
• Three distinct victory conditions catering to different play style – Military, Industrial and Domain
• Improved game performance and stability
• Improved game pace and increase to a 10 week game round
• Alliance size reduced to 15
• For the very first time, an in-game Tutorial
• An android Companion App preview 
• Mysterious alien artefacts, vortexes and broken planets are now on the frontier
• Badges to commemorate your progress and your achievements on the frontier
• Brand new Empire Skins and Map Pins make the map come alive