ASTROBOTANICA Keeps Growing. Roadmap Details Released
Space Goblin is excited to share the next key stages in development for ASTROBOTANICA, their upcoming botany-centric survival game set in a prehistoric version of Earth that has been generating significant buzz since its official reveal back in August. The 2025 roadmap includes details about their plans to launch a Kickstarter funding campaign, a Closed Alpha testing period for supporters, and plans for a public demo further into 2025.
Early previews applauded the game’s innovative setting, as ASTROBOTANICA takes us back 300,000 years to Earth’s Pleistocene era. It will welcome players into a lush open-world environment full of primal flora and fauna, and memorable landscapes. Visiting our planet as an alien botanist named Xel, you will navigate survival challenges and engage in:
Cultivation: Nurturing plant species and learning how to manage farming in Earth's environments.
Plant research: Experimenting with fruit to discover their unique qualities and effects on living organisms and the environment.
Exploration: Travelling between islands and exploring different biomes to discover new plants, while learning to tackle dangerous wildlife and solve hidden mysteries.
Tonics Crafting: Mixing ingredients obtained from local plant life to manufacture mixtures for various uses, and developing recipes for later.
Human Interaction: Breaking the ice and connecting with primal humans inhabiting the islands, to foster relationships that can lead to trading and mutual assistance.
Kickstarter Campaign and Closed Alpha Access Opportunity
After the overwhelmingly positive reception at the reveal, the dev team has decided to enhance the initial design to make the game bigger, longer and even more convoluted. To make this happen, Space Goblin will be asking gamers for help by launching the Kickstarter campaign for ASTROBOTANICA in Spring 2025.
As a part of the campaign, Kickstarter backers will have the opportunity to play a closed Alpha build of ASTROBOTANICA via Steam ahead of anyone else, to share their feedback, ideas and reactions, and engage with Space Goblin directly. More details including the exact starting date, pledges, goals, reward tiers, and exclusive perks available only for Kickstarter backers will be revealed in the coming months.
Public Demo Planned for Autumn
In the second half of 2025, ASTROBOTANICA will follow through with a new demo, made publicly available via Steam. The team will implement feedback from players who participated in the initial Alpha testing stage into the demo while also incorporating planned features. The intention is to gather a large sample of feedback from the general audience that Space Goblin can address ahead of the game’s Early Access launch, including tech tweaks due to testing on a wide variety of hardware and software setups via Steam users feedback. More details about timing and the demo contents and scale, will be made available after closing the Alpha testing phase.