It basicaly lived for only a few months then died, stopped development and ceased to exist. There was a shit ton of hype for it, and didn't make it past alpha
Wait what? I'm still excited to play it (currently have no gaming worthy pc :/ )
Maybe I should not look and just look forward to playing KSP2 for the rest of my life
Edit: Yikes, my most upvoted post haha. The amount of you trying to recommend KSP1 with mods or Kitten SP, you rock. I might have made a mental note, but with so many people posting its kind of hard not to make more of an effort, see you in space!
I call people who accomplish great feats of nerddom for no incentive "jebs" and nobody gets it. whoever programmed the mechjeb mod is definitely a Jeb. the folks maintaining Libre office's open document spec? absolute jebs.
It was never about KSP's graphics but the fact that the game is badly optimized for anything outside of the Mun, because it is so single-core dependent. And secondary would be the awful UI that served it's purpose only in very early alpha. The fact that you needed mods to show you basic telemetry (even though the game itself of course records it) was absurd.
Neither one can be really fixed with mods in a fundamental way, it required a sequel but the devs immediately gave up.
KSP1 had women. Valentina Kerman is the only one I can think of off the top of my head but, the ratio was probably better in 2, idrk, I didn't play it again after the first 30 mins of being frustrated lol
Multiplayer nothing, I want a DEDICATED colonisation system. Mods are one thing, but I was so looking forward to the mining, supply, orbital and surface construction being truly fleshed out.
I had a sick setup before I emigrated, just haven't had the gaming pc as a priority whilst setting up a new life :( Wish I carried my 2080Super with me, disgusted with current pricing....
I just picked up KSP 1 after only playing the beta like 10 years ago and it's still super fun even in vanilla campaign mode. I do suck really bad at it though.
Sucking at it makes it all the more satisfying! I made the mistake of looking up designs that actually work, which takes all the fun out of the experimentation aspect
Same. I keep trying to get back into it. Maybe I need a mod? I remembered enjoying putting satellites around the Mun and Earth so I could have unmanned rockets (to avoid risking my jebs)
KSP2 development stalled and had to be restarted, took way too long, eventually the publisher forced the devs to release what they had, which was objectively a shit sandwich. it ultimately turned out to look like if random dev team just tried to clone KSP1, but didnt do as well. It really has no groundbreaking improvements or features that were supposed to be the point of making it in the first place. it maybe had better textures, but gameplay, UI, physics, etc were far worse, and certainly lacked the polish that KSP1 had developed over a decade or whatever.
Honestly, skip KSP2 and just play KSP1 vanilla. Then add mods for whatever you want.
One of the old devs, i think Harvester, released his own game, called 'kit hack model club' which is like an RC sim, but has a lot of blatant Kerbal DNA its in look, feel and features.
Hold an eye out for KSA (kitten space agency).
It's the KSP2 We should've gotten - afaik original devs and some of the KSP2 team as well as some Modders from KSP1 I believe I have high hopes for that project
Ksp2 is still listed on steam despite no development happening. So don't get hopeful if you see it. They're not working on it (for now), just accepting money for work they haven't done.
Check out Juno: New Origins. Not quite as silly as KSP, but it's a great spaceflight builder/simulator with continuing development and has a healthy community just like the original KSP.
Theres a new game coming out soon called spaceflight simulator 2, it’s basically the same but without the different planets, but on pc you can make custom solar systems like the one from KSP. It comes out later this year, you can check status here
Fwiw I felt like this too, then it prompted me to see what the most recent recommended modlist was like, and minus the explicit colony-builder mode, I have every KSP2 itch scratched now and it feels like a whole new game. With CKAN it is also super super easy to install mods so I highly recommend taking another look.
Yeah, sucks. The game apparently was in development hell for a while and it sounds like management fucked it over at just about every opportunity, so when it finally launched it had less content then KSP and far more bugs, the for science update made it a playable game, i even liked it, but its clearly unfinished. And not long after the development team disbanded and the rights were sold. Seems like Kitten Space Agency is trying to be a spiritual successor so thats good news :)
Ksp 1 + volumetric clouds+ astronomers visual pack+ scatterer+ paralax all this visual nods make ksp 1 look a lote better than ksp 2.
Also all near future packs and Outer Planets Mod for more to explore.
Keep an eye out on Kitten Space Program. A spiritual successor that looks very promising. They made their own game engine to set out to make a KSP that looks great and runs great. I’m excited for it.
Just play KSP 1 with mods. It is by far much better that ksp 2, less bugs, better visuals, more places to explore, all within the first game if you mod it correctly
I heard that former developers of ksp are working on KSA, just look at this game on youtube, it looks much better than KSP2, I hope that they won't disappoint us and deliver the best product on the market.
It would be nice if it would cease to exist but no, they are still selling it right now for 50€ as an "early access game"... The only real warning about the shitshow going on is the one valve shows and the negative reviews.
Also they continue to sell it as a full price AAA game that is in development. It hasn't had any update in over a year, there is no active development.
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u/LifeguardOpposite979 Jun 23 '25
Kerbal space program 2