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$800 million, 13 years, and still no release date — the state of Star Citizen in 2025


As Star Citizen approaches a billion dollars in funding and with no full release date in sight, we take a look at its history and the current state of this ambitious space epic.

In the intervening thirteen years, the game has been plagued by periods of radio silence from the developers, cut features, and broken promises, while also delivering a string of ambitious updates and universe-expanding (if sometimes half-baked) new content. (Image credit: Cloud Imperium Games)The following year, CIG dropped the first iteration of the Persistent Universe module, which combined previous updates and became the core of the early access release. The team has released a number of teaser videos, as well as a one-hour "vertical slice" of the game from 2017 that showed off some exploration, FPS gunplay, and an extravehicular activity (EVA) sequence where the player examines the wreck of a spaceship.

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