Greetings, space travellers!

It is with great pleasure that we announce that The Away Team's Lost Exodus update is out and available to play right now!

In addition to bugfixes, stability improvements and good old typo corrections, the Lost Exodus update includes:

• Expanded story, increasing the game's mission content to over 120,000 words
• Enhanced sector exploration with new ship handling, random event missions and asteroid fields
• Fancy new ship graphics
• A new crew role experience system
• A new unlockable character with their own story arc to explore
• Over 50 “memento” items for crewmembers to collect
• A new in-game character editor
• Improved sprite rendering
• Clearer text and an optional dyslexic-friendly font

Some things you might be interested in checking out before you play:

We partnered with long-time fan Jason Silverain to put together an introduction to the new in-game character editor.

Some of our wonderful testers also uploaded their own characters to the new Steam Workshop page for you to take with you on your adventures across the universe. If Steam isn't for you, you can still save your characters locally and then zip them up to share with other players!

We're publishing write-ups that delve into the kind of effort we put into the Lost Exodus update on the Underflow blog, in this post, we take a look at the process behind expanding and refining the design of the Argo.

Lastly, we'd like to extend a thank you to everyone who has been patient as we put this update together, and an extra big thanks to those who helped us test the game and make sure it was ready to come out of the oven.

Enjoy!