Interstellar Espionage Inc. Steam news

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• Review score95% positive
• Total reviews19
• Release dateNov 17, 2025
• DeveloperFancy Raven Games
• PublisherFancy Raven Games

Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: Fancy Raven GamesPublisher: Fancy Raven Games

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Interstellar Espionage Inc. Steam news

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Latest Steam announcements

• Astro Protocol has released! - 9 February 2026

  Our friends at Null Vector Studios have just released Astro Protocol — a turn-based space strategy game with focused 4X elements, designed to be played in a single session.If you’re into colonizing planets, building fleets, and tactical space battles, be sure to give Astro Protocol a go!

• 1.1.0 Update - 18 December 2025

  Grab your hacking gear and venture forth!We've silently put the 1.1.0 release live for a week now on the test branch and due to no massive complaints, it's being pushed to the main branch!FeaturesData ordersCompanies in good standing can now offer data orders for each turn. Reputation threshold depends on the chosen character. Spymasters have it the easiest and can get them already with 0 reputation.Reward the player with a technology AND a higher price for the data.Can be completed by stealing data from any base of that corporation (maximize your changes by trying multiple operations!)Visible in corporation info and the technology sidebar.VendettasVendettas are now tied to corporationsViewable with corporation infoRemoved if the corporation goes bankruptBug fixesCelestial success chance was occasionally bugged and made the game quite difficult at times for some players.

• Release 15th November - 6 November 2025

  Release is imminentWe are preparing to release in just over a week. Mark the date on your calendars and set your watches on alarm: release will be 08:30 GMT! We're gonna setup a nice launch discount and we're also bundled with a couple of other awesome games, so grab 'em while they last.For launch, we've done a lot of work on the visual side, but also on improved performance and QoL. Probe has been updated, star scape has been updated, there are new tools for sorting corporations etc. Check out our new screenshots!Difficulty has been adjusted in a lot of ways making the game easier to start but more difficult to win with Cosmic Top Secret ranking. The different characters are designed to support different playstyles and have varying degrees of difficulty in different stages of the game (you didn't hear it from me, but they say Cracker is the hardest character). Despite all these changes…

• Demo gameplay update #1 - 18 September 2025

  Thank you so much for everyone downloading and playing the demo! And thanks especially to those of you with feedback. Discord PMs and the community hub have received bug reports and feature requests and we've been implementing them.Balance:Retaliations from corporations start earlier now, on turn 2Retaliations are much more powerful and hurt the player a lotDeveloped technology is much more powerful (selection is very limited compared to the full game though)Corporations get beefier quicker and start to take out competition earlierQuality of life:Operations options on a celestial can now be seen when hovering instead of clicking (we probably will add a toggle for this system in the full game if it gains traction in the demo)Filtering all operations and hovering over choices now hilights and brings the hovered options to front making the tool much easier to useAdded a UI scaling option f…

• Demo - 11 September 2025

  Demo will be playable starting Friday 12th of September!The demo has the full suite of ingame mechanics, but is restricted in:Save is disabledVery limited technologyLimited turns to 10Scores aren't savedOnly three seeds for mapsDifficulty level locked to Demo ( = medium)Only one characterPlaytime for tutorial + single run is around 30-45 minutes and you can do as many runs as you want of course.Hopefully we'll catch you out there spying on those corporations!

• Beta closing - 10 September 2025

  Playtest is still open for a few days (no new signups though!), so go and give it a try! We're pushing a new build later today that alters the difficulty curve - early game will be much easier, mid-game slightly harder and end game quite a bit harder. We've adjusted the scoring system though, so it'll still be fair!Try and catch that TOP SECRET ranking, if you can!The playtest has the following features disabled still:Saving/loading (still a few bugs to iron out)Multiple characters (gotta leave something for the release)Technology and corporations' vendettas are limited to ~50% of the full game (ditto)Difficulty levels are now in, so you can go and try to play on "Insane" if you think the game is too easy. Or go for "Baby" if you want a more relaxed experience.If you want, join our Discord to give feedback. The main goal of the beta is still to see if the game is balanced, but we're loo…

• Beta is Open - 30 August 2025

  We're opening the playtest for all those willing to participate! Limiting the spots to 200 for now.The game is feature complete, but for the playtest we've disabled the following features:Saving/loading (still a few bugs to iron out)Multiple characters (gotta leave something for the release)Technology and corporations' vendettas are limited to ~50% of the full game (ditto)Choosable difficulty levels (will open these as the beta goes forward - currently everyone is locked to medium)Come play and if you want, join our Discord to give feedback. The main goal of the beta is to see if the game is balanced, but we're looking for feedback on features as well.

• Fellow space strategy fans - check out Astro Protocol! - 18 June 2025

  Our friends at Null Vector Studios, a new Finnish indie team like us, are developing Astro Protocol — a turn-based space strategy game with focused 4X elements, designed to be played in a single session.If you’re into colonizing planets, building fleets, and tactical space battles, be sure to check it out and wishlist Astro Protocol on Steam!

• New look, new trailer and upcoming open beta - 12 June 2025

  Secret handshake!We've been hard at work here, but can't really tell what we've been doing, because it's cosmic top secret. However, we have released a new trailer with some update visuals. And also updated the screenshots.New features incomingWe ran an external alpha test with good, actionable feedback and are now working on some new features for mid and late game. Namely, a RETALIATION SYSTEM! Corporations will strike back at you for failing in your operations and they might even blow up your operators. Stay tuned for some images!Open betaIn three to four weeks, we'll be opening up a registrations for our open beta test via Steam's playtest feature. If you are keen to try the game out before we launch our demo, be sure to follow these updates. We'll be posting it only on Steam.Meanwhile, keep yourselves discrete and under the radar.

• Prepare your hidden cameras and quantum code crackers - 8 May 2025

  Hello all! Fancy Raven Games is a small indie studio from Helsinki, Finland. We are really excited to announce our game: Interstellar Espionage Inc. Check our announce trailer and stay tuned for more! The game is far from being finished, so expect a lot of updates in the upcoming months. And prepare yourselves for public playtesting and a demo after summer. We'd love if you left us feedback in any shape or form. It helps us make them game so much better so we can serve you - the audience - better.