Stars Reach has alien races with consistent lore and physics and more.
Stars Reach has alien races with consistent lore and physics and more.
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Playable Worlds’ Stars Reach could be the next big sandbox sci-fi MMORPG

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Stars Reach, the new sandbox sci-fi online game coming from Playable Worlds, aims to be the next big sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, and it’s going pretty well.

Stars Reach hit its Kickstarter goal of $200,000 in one hour and it’s now crossed $518,000 with 22 days to go. Raph Koster, a veteran MMO developer, and seasoned game exec Eric Goldberg started this project in 2019. I interviewed them both about the progress they’ve made. The project has thousands of players kicking the tires now, but Playable Worlds isn’t disclosing the exact number.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.