Outscape is a space 4X MMO strategy game from the small studio IDA Games. It entered Steam Early Access in October 2019, offering an empire to build in a huge persistent galaxy alongside thousands of other players.
You colonize planets, mine them and asteroid fields, collect taxes and keep colonists content. Ships are assembled from parts in a designer, fleets are set in formations and carry out orders while you are offline. You could sign treaties, trade resources, ships or whole planets, lay minefields, land invasion troops and hide fleets under cloaks. There were normal-speed and 10x galaxies, and newcomers had protection.
In October 2020 Steam sales were paused while the team looked for a way to keep the project going, and by late 2022 the official site stopped working. There has been no news of a revival since.
