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Starforged Legacy - Starforged Legacy Playtest is LIVE until April 18th! - Steam News Our playtest is LIVE! Test the new Endless Mode, Narrative Encounters, Skills, and more! Submit feedback or dominate the leaderboards to win a game key. Enlist before April 18!

Prepare for launch—the open beta for our sci-fi survivors game is LIVE until April 18th! We're looking for feedback on:

♾ Endless Mode
🗨️ Narrative Events
🌳 Skill Tree Overhaul

We also have TWO ways to win a game key (raffle + highscore contest)! Details 🔽
store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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Starforged Legacy - Calling All Pilots: Open Playtest Starts April 10th! - Steam News Enlist for the playtest! Give feedback on new features and major systems overhauls for a chance to win a full game key and exclusive "Test Pilot" Discord role!

Sign up for Starforged Legacy's upcoming playtest from April 10-17! We're adding:

📖 Narrative Events
🍀 Luck System
⚙️ Skill Tree Overhaul

...and a bunch of balance updates and gameplay tweaks. We'll be raffling keys to those who give feedback! Details 🔽 store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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Starforged Legacy - Early Access Launch Delayed To June 1st - Steam News Attention, Commander! EA launch moved to June 1st—join our Discord for playtests! We declassify our Skill Tree overhaul and new utility coming to Starforged Legacy.

Starforged Legacy's EA launch date is now set for June 1st! 🚀

We're taking a little extra dev time to ensure that new features meet your expectations and ours.

To tide you over, we've shared some insights into our revamped Skill Tree in today's blog:
store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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You still have time for a few more test flights. Make them count!

Thanks again to all 3,600+ (woah!) pilots who played the demo and provided feedback. The Starforged Legacy Demo will return closer to our EA release! 🚀

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Starforged Legacy - Message From High Command: Temporary Demo Closure & New Feature Preview - Steam News Following Steam Next Fest, our demo will be on a temporary hiatus for an overhaul beginning March 14th! Preview our Narrative Encounter and Ship Customization systems.

Details: store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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We're taking down the Starforged Legacy Demo on March 14th to address the incredible feedback we received during Next Fest! 🚨

We outline what we plan to cover, along with previews of Narrative Events 💬 and Ship Customization 🎨, in our newest devlog!

Details in 🧵

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🚨 Less than 24 hours left to enter our game key raffle!

We're drawing winners TOMORROW, March 3rd. If you haven't entered yet, all you need to do is take a few test flights in our demo and fill out our feedback survey!

Good luck!

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Starforged Legacy - Directives: Give Feedback, Win a Game Key! - Steam News Test Flight the demo and report to high command to win a full game key! Winners drawn March 3rd. Report to our Discord for more info!

Details: store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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We're welcoming hundreds of new pilots thanks to #SteamNextFest, so we're raffling keys to Starforged Legacy! To enter:

🚀 Play the Starforged Legacy Demo
📝 Complete our Feedback Survey
🗨️ Drop your Discord @ in the survey

We’ll be drawing winners on March 3rd! Details in 🧵

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Starforged Legacy Demo on Steam Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 100+ strategy-defining upgrades, and a...

Wishlist & Follow to stay up to date on development! store.steampowered.com/app/4029420/...

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Check out the Starforged Legacy Demo during #SteamNextFest! 📣

Forge a fleet-leveling battleship to survive a relentless rebel fleet in this sci-fi survivors game with 130+ augments and enhancements + newly added laser weaponry! 💥

Demo 🔗 below! #IndieDev

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Starforged Legacy Demo on Steam Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 100+ strategy-defining upgrades, and a...

Go for a test-flight in the Starforged Legacy Demo (and let us know what you think)! 🔽
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Arm your starcraft with arcing lasers, railguns, and cruise missiles, then push 100+ synergizing augments to the limit to challenge the colossal rebel fleet! 🚀

Starforged Legacy is FTL meets Vampire survivors, and we're taking part in #SteamNextFest!

Demo available now! 🧵

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Starforged Legacy - Steam Next Fest Demo Update - Steam News Arm your ship with new laser tech and ship-specific subsystems. Navigate a rebuilt Star Map and face the lethal Contaminator in our largest update before Steam Next Fest!

Full announcement! 🔽 store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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INCOMING TRANSMISSION 📡

Commanders, we've just launched our largest demo update yet, just in time for #SteamNextFest!

⚡️ 3 New Laser Weapons
✨ 30+ New Augments
🛠️ Unique Ship Subsystems
☣️ Overhauled 'Contaminator' Boss

And more—link to full announcement below! #IndieDev

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Starforged Legacy - Message From High Command: New Content in the Works! - Steam News Celebrating recently attained milestones in 1,000+ demo plays and 'very positive' user reviews with a preview of in-development content.

Our second devlog is live on Steam! 🛰️

We take a moment to celebrate some of Starforged Legacy's recent milestones, and show off some new weapons and enemy mechanics in development! #IndieDev

Read it here (and maybe bring eye protection)! 🔽
store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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That's a wrap for #BulletHeavenFest 3! Our first festival participation net us:

🎉 2,600 Wishlists
🚀 990 Demo Plays (2,109 Library Adds)
✅ 12 Demo Reviews

Thanks for your support during the festival, and welcome aboard, new pilots—hope to see you next year! #IndieDev

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Starforged Legacy | Launch Date Reveal Trailer
Starforged Legacy | Launch Date Reveal Trailer YouTube video by Second Shift Games

🚨 INCOMING TRANSMISSION 🚨

Starforged Legacy is launching into EA April 16th, 2026! 🚀

We're a featured title during this year's Bullet Heaven Fest 3.0, so we’re kicking off the event with the premiere of our EA release date trailer!
#BulletHeaven #BHF3 #IndieGame
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Starforged Legacy - The Starforged Legacy Demo is LIVE! - Steam News Our demo is now live! Build 2105 improves gamepad support, performance improvements, the loadout hangar, mini-boss spawns, etc.. Stay tuned for an important EA announcement!

The Starforged Legacy demo is LIVE! 🎉

Discover 100+ augments/enhancements, master nine loadouts across three spacecraft, and navigate an ever-changing galaxy in this sci-fi survivors game! 🚀

(We couldn't have done it without our playtesters—thanks!)

store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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do you think insurance will cover this 🙃

(more work on the hangar level—despite what it looks like, it’s going quite well)

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drex23 - Twitch [CHARITY] THE INDIE DREXATHON !donate

drex23 is live on Twitch playing a ton of Indie roguelikes (including Starforged) in support of Feeding America! 🚨

Go show some support!
www.twitch.tv/drex23

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Starforged Legacy - Message From High Command: From Open Beta to Demo! - Steam News The Open Beta is ending soon to make way for the Demo! Controller and Steam Deck support on the horizon, and we touch on ship loadouts and unlocks!

Our first devlog! store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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We just launched another update to the open playtest!

🚀 Ship Loadouts
🌌 New Environment Hazards
🎮 Near-Complete Gamepad Support
💥 Cruise Missile Rework

We're also nearing our demo build, so we posted our first devlog to cover the transition! Find it in the 🧵
#IndieDev

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We have a few missile weapons already, so we gave the Cruise Missile this new high-arc path to make it feel unique. (And a lot cooler, tbh).

What do you think of the change? #WishlistWednesday

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Starforged Legacy - Starforged Legacy Patch Notes | Build 1903 - Steam News Adaptive enemy spawning and a major melee rework make combat much deadlier! Significant augment rebalancing, a new combat skill, refreshed starting ship loadouts, and more.

Think you've mastered our beta? Think again! 🚀

Today's update brings adaptive difficulty scaling (rewarding your success with... more enemies!), more punishing melee enemies, 30+ augment rebalances, and more!

Hop in and let us know what you think! 🔽 store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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This effect is heavily inspired by the Itano Missile Circus! The missiles are shot in a random direction, then after a short delay, begin homing in on their target with a steadily increasing turning acceleration. If the original target is destroyed mid-flight, they’ll redirect to another enemy.

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We challenged our testers to top the new in-game leaderboard to win a key, and they've already;

🚀 Beaten the top dev's score by 10x
☠️ Broken the final boss
💪 Found several unkillable builds

Safe to say this has been a success so far—challenge ends in three days! #IndieDev

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How it started vs. how it's going: Starforged Legacy edition! 👇

What's the BIGGEST change you notice between our current playtest build and how the game looked over a YEAR ago? #IndieDev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Starforged Legacy - Directives: Win a Key, New Update, Playtest Extended! - Steam News Compete for a free copy of the game in our new high-score challenge! This announcement also details a new game update and the extension of our open playtest.

The Starforged Legacy playtest has been EXTENDED! 🎉

We're celebrating with a huge new playtest update and a high-score challenge running until October 17th.

The top 3 testers who submit will win a key to the full game! 🥇 #indiedev #roguelike store.steampowered.com/news/app/335...

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Starforged Legacy on Steam Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 115+ strategy-defining augments, and a...

We implore you to find more game-breaking bugs during the Starforged Legacy open beta! 🔽

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