Star Control II developers working on ‘direct sequel’ 25 years later

The brains behind Star Control II are resurrecting the series a quarter of a century after the last real entry in the sci-fi series. Creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III announced today that they are coming back to do a legitimate sequel. The project doesn’t have a release date, platform, or pricing info yet, but it does have a name: Ghosts of the Precursors.

Star Control II is a beloved PC game. It debuted for Microsoft DOS in 1992, and it enabled players to explore a galaxy as part of a story-heavy adventure. Ghost of the Precursors is still early in development, and Ford and Reiche haven’t expressed how they’ll adapt the classic gameplay for modern audiences. But they did promise all of the alien races from Star Control II will return in the new game.