If you're a fan of space sims, you'll be excited to know that Kerbal Space Program is making its way to the Xbox One. While the game reached version 1.0 on PC in April, this will mark its console debut.
If you're unfamiliar with Kerbal Space Program, the game places you in the cold expanse of space as you explore the universe around you. The universe is realistically modeled, with accurate simulations for flying, heat, and other properties and actions. Essentially, you'll be able to build, launch, and fly rockets to desired destinations to start exploring worlds around you.
The development team isn't talking a release date or price yet, but the game is currently available for PC on Steam at $39.99, so we wouldn't expect it to venture too far from that mark. Speaking of which, if you'd like to give the Kerbal Space Program a shot on PC before it hits the Xbox One, you can hit up the link below to check it out.
Buy Kerbal Space Program on Steam ($39.99)
Source: Kerbal Space Program forums
Reader comments
Kerbal Space Program is headed to the Xbox One
Awesome! This is so cool!
I played this at my friends. I thought is was a £5 indie game.
i got it when it was 10 $
Thats a more acceptable price
Considering the amount of work that went into this game, I think their asking price is fair. Just because it's not something you're interested in doesn't mean it isn't a great game.
I just wish some would just realise devs need to be rewarded for their efforts otherwise they just are not even going to bother.
Sure, there are several indie titles on steam that have been left to rot. However given there is some commitment to bring this to the x1; it shows that these devs are in it for the long haul. I'm pretty sure given it's realism it would appeal to alot of kids and parents (for it's educational value).
Personally I would love to play this on the x1 and it can be evolved further with VR + AR.
The game was already a playable, if unfinished, sandbox/rocket smulator before it came to Steam Early-Access (unlike a lot of other titles), though it lacked many modern features. I bought it for $13.99 straight from their website (I still use their website rather than Steam, since it's easier to maintain multiple versions of the game).
A major aspect of the game, the amazing mod community, is probably going to be lacking on Xbox One (and PS4), but it's still a fun game and almost alone for its genre.
Did they give a launch window or anything to go on when it will be released?
Can you read? The article was a few paragraphs. How could you miss it?
LOL I GET IT!!!! "Launch window" LOL
Or buy DRM-free on gog.com... Steam doesn't need advertisements for its service...
This is a stupid comment. The Steam version is DRM free too...
So you can play it without having to run steam or have steam installed?
Yes, you just need Steam to download the game. After that, you can copy it out of steam folder and play it without Steam. The game does not require installation either. I do this all the time when steam updates the game, I VPN to my home computer from work, download entire folder from steam and play it on my work computer in office :D
No it's not. GoG is, as he said.
It's incredible how so many people have been fooled by Valve. ALL steam games are DRM. The Steam client itself is the DRM. As the OP said, GoG is one of the few places to get DRM free PC games.
*shrug* It may be in this case, I didn't check, but it's not because of anything Steam did to make it so. But I can say for sure the GOG version is DRM-free without having to check. Personally, I'll go with the one that makes sure my games are my games, rather than the one that allows whatever DRM the publisher wants to put on it.
Does this mean they will also add controller support to the pc version? That would be nice. I would love to stream it to my tv occasionally
This is super exciting. So much for trying not to spend as much on games...
The one thing holding me back is mods. The game is great if you play vanilla as well, don't get me wrong, but with mods you get waay more options and tech. Here's hoping they'll support all the great mods out there.
gg
Was announced in June for PS4. Will be curious which one launches first.
Will this be coming as a full release, or are they going to abuse that Game Preview feature Xbox recently added?
Great game. It's seen a lot of updates since I got it under beta, and the final release will likely continue getting updates.
Nice to see new game releases, but i don't understand why one would release (or play) games like this on Xbox One. Controls will be very annoying i'd say. Not only are there many, but it requires a lot of precision to build (which is difficult if you are laying on a couch a few yards from the TV). And they need to change the whole UI if they want to make it controller-usable (its really mouse-oriented at the moment).
I don't get why you would play this on your console, same goes for bridge builder and cities skylines which are also coming soon.
I will. I don't do desk entertainment.
Better than having kids play games like COD, GTA 5 etc Imo.
Plus granted some tweaks would need to be made, however it's perfectly playable with a controller. I play Anno 2070 with a controller (to avoid RSI) using joy2key to map the mouse to analogue sticks, mouse buttons and keyboard short cuts to preferred buttons. The only compromise is typing in City names etc. So yeah if it had a virtual keyboard it would be perfectly playable with a controller.
IIRC, there is keyboard and mouse support coming to Xbox One (I imagine that will launch with Halo Wars 2). I can easily see KSP getting that support as well. All the same, Minecraft took some getting used to with the inventory controls with a controller, but it works well and I doubt it took a lot of effort to implement.
I am personally very excited. I don't have a desktop to run games on, so having a console that I don't have to worry about performance issues, but can get some of the great games that are on PC, is a major win.
I would pay $100 for this. One of my favorite games!