- Update 1.15 - 8 August 2026
Hi there, space travellers!We are back with a medium-sized update, preparing the release of Chapter 3 and some further QoL enhancements. We listened to a lot of your feedback over the past months and improved areas like trading and mining and added some new areas and NPCs to the world. ElZanco also created a tool for easier weapon/equpiment and item balancing, which will make it easier for us to keep an overview of the endless amount of stuff already in the game and change things in the future more quickly.Experimental Mining Re-BalancingMining has always been one oft most attractive moneymakers in the game, but the differences between the various mining lasers still didn't feel right. Also, mining lasers still felt pretty powerful in combat situations, so most of the time switching between mining and combat equipment wasn't even necessary. Some things we did to make mining more interes…
- Chapter 2 - Alternative Route - 17 November 2025
Hey space traveler,while we're working on the third chapter, the alternative route for the Sphere arc is now finally ready to be revealed. This is a reward for those who - on top of siding with Caduceus - are strictly loyal to Mr. Shiro. Hopefully you gave the right answers during the job interview! This will now have heavy consequences for the Sphere storyline, e.g. you can now switch over to Lord Furui and work for the Loyalist side. If you remember how to ally yourself with Mr. Shiro, it's worth giving it a try! :D There will be more improvements, including some new achievements, for Story Arc 1 and 2 coming soon and the next big update is going to be the new story chapter. We're already far into development and this update kind of serves as a framework for what's to come. Be prepared for big changes and twists! ;)In addition, brand new mining equipment is waiting for you!As always,…
- Halloween Update - 19 October 2025
🎃 Trick or treat, traveler? 🎃Have no fear – it's just the usual "humanity on the brink of destruction and everything being haunted by supernatural beings" scenario that's typical for this time of year - which doesn't mean you'll survive. We'd like to take advantage of the unpleasant situation of the undead taking over the universe to remind you of our upcoming releases: The alternative path of the Sphere Arc is almost complete and will be released in the coming weeks! Immediately after that - hopefully still this year - the J-12 Arc (Chapter 3) will follow.If you not only shred pumpkins and pulverize skeleton bones, but also speak Portuguese or Russian, we have some good news for you: With this update, a completely new translation - Brazilian Portuguese - is being released, and the Russian version has been updated again!Many thanks to our fearless translators José Roberto (PT-BR) and…
- The upcoming Arc - 27 June 2025
166 AM, 120 SolCentral Dogma, CeresProf. Helios: Damn it! The evaluation process is taking too long! The Council's decision-making has been lacking recently. Are you sure there isn't anything wrong with one of the segments?Assistant: The analysts are currently conducting an additional diagnostic procedure. The Cermark segment has been exhibiting irregularities on occasion.Prof. Helios: Where are the replacement parts? We need them yesterday.Assistant: New components are scheduled to arrive in the near future.Prof. Helios: How soon? I need a number! Days, weeks?Assistant: A few... months, professor?Prof. Helios: Are you kidding me? What is the military even doing? The Sphere has recently experienced a civil war, and we are missing the window of opportunity.Assistant: A messenger has been dispatched. This should expedite the process.Prof. Helios: What about the new carrier? The order was…
- Update 1.13 - 26 October 2024
Happy Halloween, space folks! The annual horror show has begun. For those who haven't had a chance yet, it's time to defeat the Bonelord (and steal his mighty ship!), close the portals to the Wicked Dimension or equip the Spectre ghost ship with some devastating pumpkin weapons. Of course, everyone else is invited to mash pumpkins, too! Also, we've finally completed the German translation once again and are happy to present some progress on the user interface, as well as a bunch of fixes. Stay safe in this haunted universe! ✌️🐢🚀 The horror is back All hell is loose once again - skeleton bosses, eyeballs, pumpkins... You know the deal! https://i.imgur.com/lG5TPA8.gif DE Translation With the latest dialog translation, the full German version is now back to 100%! ✅ There have also been improvements to the old parts of the german translation. We will continue to improve the quality of the…
- Update 1.12 - 14 July 2024
Heya space travelers, It's time for another update! Since the last major update, we've been focusing on bug fixes and quality of life improvements. While the groundwork is already being laid for the next expansion of the story, we managed to check off a lot of older tasks, be it fixes, improvements or even some practical features - and finally a first step towards expanding the skill tree. Have fun and safe travels! New Skills ...are joining the tree! Some are connected to new features (like scanning or mining advantages) while others just tweak existing stats. The tree is to be expanded further, but this update introduces the first batch: Express Reveal - speed up the scan process Spatial Scan - increase scan range in 3 steps Equipment Scan - reveal weapons and shields Cargo Scan - scan NPC cargo Deep Scan - display combat-relevant stats Core Mapping - increase mining yield Ore Filter…
- Chapter 2: The Sphere - 6 April 2024
By the emperor, it's here! Thanks for the wait, traveler - we know it's been long. But your patience will finally be rewarded with a fully unseen main story arc! Also, not to forget: CARRIER SHIPS. 🚀 As it has taken some time, lots of other things have piled up too, so make sure you don't miss the details! Although we're confident that this will keep you entertained for a while (as we shift our focus back to general QoL improvements and more frequent updates again) we do have more in store - this is not the last storyline expansion by far, and we assure you that all of them will come in form of free updates! Cheers, the Warp Turtle crew Story of the Sphere Continue the saga! A brand new story experience that comes with: The initial concept was created so long ago, it was written on papyrus... Turmoil is rising within the Sphere. Old ideals stand in conflict with major upheavals caused…
- Pre-Update Discount - 29 March 2024
Hey space travelers, Great news! As you may have noticed, we've been avoiding the term "coming soon" lately, as it was starting to wear out a little... But now we're finally in the safe zone: It's coming next week! 🙌🎉 All content is ready and we're setting everything up to bring it to your screens next week! So let's have a little pre-party with this last discount before the Sphere update as we prepare the final steps for release! Let's have a chat on Discord: Learn more & stay tuned! Website X, Youtube, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur
- Halloween - 17 October 2023
Hey space travelers, 🎃 👻 🚀 It's Space Halloween - We just enabled the annual event this weekend: Wicked Gates and pumpkins are all over the place, as well as a skeleton boss ship with a blueprint! Talk to Count Ixua ("Spectre" ghost ship next to Pluto) to learn how to permanently unlock spooky gimmicks! Update preparations for the new main story arc are running high at the moment (sounding familiar? We hope you still believe us!) - most of the major events are currently in their polishing phase. Sorry for still not being able to give a schedule, but the finish line is coming into view, and by now it's safe to say it will be good. 🙂 Check out the #work-in-progress channel on our Discord for some latest previews! Safe travels! Let's have a chat on Discord: Learn more & stay tuned! Website Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, Reddit, Imgur
- Sphere Transmission - 8 July 2023
Heya space travelers, It's the longest gap between two updates ever, so we felt it's time for an official transmission to let you know what's going on. We've been silent for quite a while now - apologies for that, but all questions are still being answered - and we wanted to assure you that stuff is still moving forward. Just slower (for the reasons below), but our plans for the future are still big, and this is not going to be our last story expansion. WHY IT TAKES SO LONG Our original plan was to release the new story update at the end of last year - what happened? Simple answer: the cycle of life! A newborn baby is spicing things up, old cats have been demanding a lot of care (RIP Lola and safe travels!) and side jobs need some attention too. So we are trying to juggle it all and still push the game forward, but some things just need extra work - and at this point, predictions are ha…
- Update 1.10 - 28 December 2022
Hey space travelers, Another year of space exploration is coming to an end. We hope you had a great Christmas and we want to thank everyone for their support and feedback, and for joining us on this awesome journey. Speaking of which, two brave space pilots wanted to play this game so badly (or were just fed up with waiting ;)) that they translated the whole 10K+ lines of text themselves! See more below... As you can see, this is still not the Sphere update, but its development is on the home stretch and we don't plan to release any other update before it - it's in sight! Thanks for your patience, you will have a lot of new content soon, and many of your questions from the first storyline will be answered! Have a good transit between the years, we'll see you on the other side! Warp Turtle 🐢🚀 Localization Two long-awaited languages are finally here! We are very happy to present the com…
- Update 1.9 - 31 October 2022
Dear traveler, This is not your average Halloween update – it's actually quite heavy with general content! Enjoy! 🚀🚀🚀 ⏭️ NPC Interaction Shortcuts https://i.imgur.com/RxjWYBL.gif We are very happy to introduce an important feature that will save us a lot of unnecessary clicks during our shopping tours. It provides useful information about an NPC's functionality, and even direct access to our garages, cargo boxes, quick repair and other functionalities. We have further plans for providing quick info about the actual store content, but the current version already saves a great deal of time and nerves. Thanks to user info for throwing a new spotlight on this issue with a great UX depiction! ⚔ Mercenaries Yes, mercenaries - one from each of the five main factions - willing to trade their lives for yours, if you're willing to bring the dime. Once hired, they will stay by your side whereve…
- Update 1.8 - 11 September 2022
Welcome back, space travelers! This is another update in preparation for the big one. Let's warm up with a few quick facts: 🚀 Milestone reached Gaia Beyond now has over 100 side missions! 🚀 Performance boost With the new AMD drivers (July 22), OpenGL performance received a big upgrade. The interface now renders twice as fast, ingame graphics even faster (stress test inside the asteroid belt went from 120 to 165 FPS)! 🚀 Soundtrack expansion The timing couldn't be more perfect. Since Miguel Johnson just released his new masterpiece "2184", you can look forward to some great new tunes with the upcoming story arc - the full album is already available on Bandcamp! 🚀 Something big ...that we know many people have been waiting for is in development and currently being tested - to be introduced with the new arc! Missions New side missions and additional decisions in old ones! Help Fernandez…
- 1.7 Post Patches - Summer Sale ending soon - 6 July 2022
Hey space travelers, Two weeks have passed since the 1.7 update and it's already 1.7.8! :) Thanks to your great feedback we have already fixed and improved many things - of which we want to give you a small overview here. Special thanks to Goldberger, Floppa Priest, justcallmebob, VillainBob and UnimatrixZero for their helpful input! Radar Sharing Deployed turrets now share the radar with you. FTA Cargo Container Upgrades FTA banks now offer expansions for their cargo space, so if you've got the credits, you can upgrade your storage place there. NPC Ships Turret Platforms: Show the deployed weapons when selected Support for NPC ships to use the repair laser Many small improvements to "A Hard Day of Work" and "Distress Call" When deciding against Kalypso during "Crash Course", Kalypso should attack one of the guards first to give the player some extra time in the fight. Further progress…
- Update 1.7 - 20 June 2022
Heya space pilots, Time for another content update! We've been a bit quiet the last 2 months (there has been another big relocation within the team as well as the average health turmoil in 2022), but everything is back on track and most importantly, we have some new content that we finally want to share with you: We're excited to introduce the promised deployable turrets feature, made all shields upgradable, took another deep look into cargo items (icons and sorting) and last but not least greatly expanded the German translation. During the constraints, we also took the time to revise general things like our website. In addition, a lot of new content for the main story expansion has been created again in the background, which we are now focusing on completing – the wait will soon be over. Safe travels, we look forward to your feedback! Deployable Turrets https://i.imgur.com/qTe29Jy.gif…
- Update 1.6.4 - 21 March 2022
Hiya, space explorers, welcome back to a small interim update – some fixes, minor additions and polishing here and there. Special thanks this time to pepps and especially mav from the community. Also: general revision of missile homing, all of them were checked through and significantly improved. Work on the next main update continues now! :D Missions "The Tyrant" side mission: Rebel spawn position optimized (avoids likelihood of missing them), better handling of the battle event so the player doesn't need to manually target the rebels, script and dialog polishing including alternative dialog, just in case you might still miss the rebels. Some portrait assignment updates "No Funny Business" side mission: Added new jokes, improved dialog and script handling, some dialog polishing "Sleeping Pods for Three, No Pets!" side mission: Removed the possibility to re-enter the mission after it fa…
- Update 1.6 – Enter the Caduceus - 18 February 2022
- Update 1.5.3 - 24 November 2021
Nĭ hăo, space traveler! Here's even another spontaneous update before the two big ones. The reasons are: Another large amount of bug fixes, as well as incredible news: A group of awesome people have provided us with a fan-made localization – Gaia Beyond is now available in Chinese! If there happen to be any other multilinguals out there (especially Russian) who are willing to do the same – or contribute some single parts of translation to start with, please don't hesitate to get in touch! Chinese Localization Huge thanks to the GamerArk team: 橘猫警长 太阳花BASARA V-1导弹 阿昏 豆奶 Daniel Cris 翻译菌 Please note that especially with the upcoming major patches, the texts will still be updated (which is why we haven't yet actively focused on translations in general). However, we have the commitment from the GamerArk team for ongoing support and will keep everything as up-to-date as possible. New Shortcut…
- Update 1.5 - 16 October 2021
Hey space travelers, This was more of an interim update first, as we had so many fixes and optimizations between two updates that we didn't want to keep from you – but a significant change to the weapon system made us let it ripen a little more in the end: Area damage, coming with additions like physical impulses and timed damage functionalities. Along with an overall tooltip rework, these new features were applied to existing weapons and some new ones, but there is also room for many cool future things! At the same time, the production of the story expansion is on fire. We decided to release the alternative routes for the Caduceus storyline separately, so be prepared for a big replayability update even before the actual expansion – can't wait to show you the new stuff! Special thanks to: Jhenox for feedback and a lot of insight, BunnyDeFluff for feedback and bug reporting, GamerArk for…
- Update 1.4 - 31 July 2021
Heya space travelers! It's 1.4 and here we are with new features – like the much sought-after loot magnet, ship loadouts, new ships and weapons, as well as a lot of improvements. Check it out and don't forget to let us know what you think. A lot of work is also going into the upcoming main story expansion right now, so be prepared for a huge update this year! We're already curious how you will like it. Loot Magnet ...makes looting more attractive! Keep your eyes open for the Loot Recovery Field and Salvor Attractor devices! We decided to make them passive – so equip one of them, lean back and enjoy your delivery! https://i.imgur.com/6NRXVvC.gif New Ships Extraterrestrial sightings – crafted by human hands. The Companionship brings you even two versions of this gear-driven flying saucer: A devastating war machine and a hyperspeed shuttle. For the believers, the Seraphim have summoned hol…
