This is not the end of the road for Astroneer. Most of all, to our husbands, wives, kids, and close friends who sacrificed with us along the way, thank you and we love you. To those who saw the very first announcement and became early boosters, thank you much for your faith in us. To those who bought the game in Early Access and believed in us, thank you so much for your support and patience through the trial and error of over 30 updates and patches.

Perhaps the full story will be told another day. It’s been a journey filled with triumph and jubilation, hardship and loss, love and passion, contention and debate, and more hard work than we even imagined. Today is the culmination of that five year journey. In that time, it’s been my pleasure to watch System Era grow from four to twenty people, and learn so many lessons about building a healthy workplace in this difficult industry. In total, it’s been five years since System Era came into existence with the seed of an idea for Astroneer. An even earlier prototype was developed before that for a year. Before that, the released incarnation of the game was worked on for over eighteen months. Today, Astroneer left Early Access on Steam, and Game Preview on Xbox, after being in those programs for two years, one month, twenty one days. I haven’t written nearly as much as I want to, or as I really should be, but I can finally bring my head up from being deep in code and say a few words about this moment.

Astroneer demo expired popup keeps opening on startup