Xenonauts 2 - Early Access Delay and Steam Festival Demo

GameWatcher reports that Early Access for Xenonauts 2 has been delayed and instead there will be a Steam Festival Demo made available for those who don't already own Xenonauts 2.

A Xenonauts 2 demo is currently available as part of the Steam Games Festival, which ends on February 9. The demo can, however, only be accessed by users who don't already own the title and features one level of tactical combat.

"Based on community feedback as well as our own schedule, we've decided to push the Early Access release of Xenonauts-2 back a few months. We know this will be a disappointment to those of you who have been waiting a long time for this, and we apologise again for the delays," the developer said in a post on the game's website.

"However, we have managed to secure additional development funding and this gives us a lot more flexibility in terms of when we launch. Ultimately, this is the best decision for the game and one which will enable us to come into Early Access with something much more polished and complete."

If you don't get around to playing the demo, you'll be happy to hear that a Xenonauts 2 open beta is also scheduled to kick off in March. It will "contain a significant amount of the content" planned for the Early Access release. While entry might be initially gated, the open beta will eventually allow everyone to get a better taste of what the title has to offer.

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Never thought I'd see a developer get funding for making his 7-year-old game again and appending a '2' to the title.

Yeah but give him credit the second is supposed to be improved and better then the original. Only thing I wish for would be a new engine like Unity and Phoenix Point.

Yeah, but I played the original and I played a demo for X2. Admittedly it was a while ago, but the "improvements" are both scant and unimpressive.
If two people were playing both versions and you were looking over their shoulder, I doubt you could tell the difference.

Originally Posted by screeg
Never thought I'd see a developer get funding for making his 7-year-old game again and appending a '2' to the title.

Apparently you're not familiar with Jeff Vogel.

Someone posted on Steam that poor Xenonauts 2 demo is sooOOoo BAAD! I completely agree. Its as if they are FCKN PURPOSEFULLY planning to do a bad trash game. As if they researched methods how to murder any gameplay value that they might have done right with that sectoid-killing demo in the wilderness last year or back: Non of that okayish sectoid killing SHT is in the backer alphas now. I highly doubt the demo and newer versions of it could be any better.

Originally Posted by screeg
Never thought I'd see a developer get funding for making his 7-year-old game again and appending a '2' to the title.

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Never heard of spiderweb games?

Every mention of Vogel or Spiderweb tends to mean another fifty games were just purchased, so, yay!

As for Xenonauts the second, I'm tapping my toes with impatience. If it's anything like the previous game, it shall be well worth the wait.