Playable Worlds’ Stars Reach could be the next big sandbox sci-fi MMORPG

Stars Reach, the new sandbox sci-fi online game coming from Playable Worlds, aims to be the next big sci-fi massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It’s in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign, and it’s going pretty well.

Stars Reach hit its Kickstarter goal of $200,000 in one hour and it’s now crossed $518,000 with 22 days to go. Raph Koster, a veteran MMO developer, and seasoned game exec Eric Goldberg started this project in 2019. I interviewed them both about the progress they’ve made. The project has thousands of players kicking the tires now, but Playable Worlds isn’t disclosing the exact number.

Koster, who has been making big online game worlds since 1994, wrote the vision doc for the game with dozens of pages, with the full simulation of virtual worlds. It was the dream for a game that Koster had wanted to ...