Ostranauts is a noir spaceship-life sim, set in a solar system cut-off from a ravaged Earth.

Ostranauts challenges you to design your one-of-a-kind spaceship, hire crew with physical and emotional needs, enjoy detailed ship control panels and interiors, and then manage your dysfunctional crew and ship as you fend off bankruptcy...or worse! Players will create their captain, build or customize their starting ship from the spoils of their career history, and find ways to keep their motley crew in line, fuel in their tanks, food on their plates, and the debt collectors at bay.

Set in the NEO Scavenger universe, where Earth has suffered cataclysmic collapse, the rest of the System lives on in a state of capitalistic dystopia.

Originally planned to launch through Steam Early Access on June 11, 2020, developer Modern Wolf has delayed Ostranauts until further notice.

"We're delaying the release of Ostranauts for a while. The Covid-19 pandemic has interfered with the game's production, and the game just isn't quite ready for prime time. That's not on Blue Bottle Games, it's on us, for not adapting quickly enough to the crisis.

So Ostranauts needs a little more work to be the noir spaceship life sim that we're all keen to play. Back when we first announced Modern Wolf in 2019, we made a promise to the world that we were never going to ask devs to crunch to ship a game. So rather than ask Blue Bottle Games to work longer hours, we decided to move the release date back. I hope you understand. When you do get Ostranauts into your hands, it's going to blow you away.," stated Modern Wolf CEO Fernando Rizo.

While there will be a bit of a wait for the game in Early Access, there will be a demo released on 16th June 2020 as part of the Steam Festival.

Key Features:

• Detailed Custom Ship Design: Players can build their ship, in any shape, from functioning modular parts. The parts have physical properties, interact with each other, and can wear out over time.
• Crew Needs: Crew members have physiological and emotional needs, ranging from basal needs like food, water, oxygen, and temperature, to more esoteric needs like privacy, security, intimacy, and esteem.
• Systems Management: Ostranauts is a detailed simulation, with many interdependent systems. Players will have to manage supplies, emotions, power grids, finances, security, social ties, and more to keep their enterprise alive, both literally and figuratively.
• Crew AI: Each crew member runs an AI that is constantly making choices based on their current needs and past experience. If one colleague is consistently comforting, and another threatening, an AI will seek out the former when they need security.
• Rich, Drip-Fed Lore: Just like in NEO Scavenger, the game is rich with hidden lore for those who want to seek it. Colonies and factions have long histories. Everyday products have brands and marketing. Unexplained phenomena have rumors echoing through the media and hidden files. And for those that don't care, it doesn't get in the way.
• Hard-ish Science: The tech-level in Ostranauts is near-future, but plausible. There is no faster-than-light travel, no sound in a void, no dogfighting, nor force fields. On the other hand, some ultra tech exists for the purposes of aesthetics and storytelling. E.g. fusion efficiency, cooling, and shielding are enhanced. FTL texting is possible (albeit expensive and low-bandwidth). And the unexplained supernatural events seen in NEO Scavenger are not limited to Earth.

Ostranauts is coming to PC (Steam) in early 2020.