Dear Stratosphere Games friends, 

It’s time again to catch up with the latest developments. We had a great time in San Francisco meeting business partners, investors, publishers and friends. It’s great to see the industry recovering from the past years and to feel that drive for future growth. It’s almost like a restart of our beloved gaming industry as we see new investments and companies being founded. That’s great 🚀 

We had many talks with licensors that are eager to see their IPs coming to life through an anticipating game – let’s see if we can help them to fulfill their dream😉Tokenization clearly was a hot topic too that many people are interested in. Owning digital value will be an important part of the next era of the internet and more and more players are requesting it. Luckily, we don’t need to investigate that trend since we are already deeply involved. By launching our quest hunt for The Desolation we are offering players a great opportunity to gather points which they can exchange for tokens in future. Within the first days more than 50.000 players joined this hunt for points. Awesome! But that’s not it, we will also launch a mission board soon and will continue adding more and more features to the game as well as to the universe around it. 

At the same time, we are making big progress preparing for the release of Dawn of Ages on 9^th of May. We received great feedback about our planned features from the community that we will use to come up with a launch campaign that will push the game. Check out the website and have a look at the pre-registration. Of course, our friends from BoomBit will join our efforts to achieve the best possible start. As official publisher of the game they will run several marketing campaigns to spread the word.  

Another important release will be Homeworld 3 from Gearbox Publishing. Launching on May 13^th our community of Homeworld Mobile can’t wait to experience all the thrilling activities we have planned for the starting phase of the big brother. It will be a great opportunity for us to activate even more Homeworld players and to show them that you can enjoy Homeworld on all available platforms.  

As you can see, more and more milestones are coming up. That’s why we are going to increase our publishing team to prepare for the Steam Next Fest, for our releases, for our updates, for Mobile Testing and all the different highlights that lie ahead of us. We are happy that many experienced people from com2us, Sandbox Interactive and LUKSO are now part of the Stratosphere Games crew. Let’s rock the upcoming months! 🔥 

Before getting excited about everything that is coming up in 2024, we take a moment to look back with pride and gratitude. Because last year, our journey was marked by remarkable milestones: 

	THE DESOLATION Demand beyond expectations with a third sold-out winter sale with a total volume of 450.000 $ in primary and secondary sales Only 11 months from first line of code to early access with stellar engagement numbers for our 3000 alpha players and our 30k Discord members Massive lunar sale and update with procedural content beginning of March!
	Dawn of Ages Great development of KPIs: we proofed market fit, scalability and monetization concept – CPI in the US as low as $1,10 and ROAS positive in 14 days Signed an amazing partner Boombit as publisher Soft launch in December with a promising traction with of 22,000+ players and growing Game will be scale tested in February and is planned for release in April 2024
	Homeworld Mobile Reached highest revenue since launch in the last quarter of 2023 Getting ready for a massive cross-franchise event for the launch of Homeworld 3 Preparing for an event packed 2024

As we step into 2024, we’re are excited about all the opportunities lying ahead. The previous year’s trials have honed our focus and resilience, setting a robust foundation for everything upcoming. We’re set to scale new heights with our games.  

Stratosphere Games is very excited to announce an investment round by Riot Games, 1Up Ventures, and Skycatcher. In addition, the company has also received a new grant from the German Games Fund (“Computerspieleförderung des Bundes”).

The total funds of over 3M Euros will be used for the next step on the product roadmap by developing a cooperative-looter-shooter named “Desolation”. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world and is designed as a multi-platform title. It will feature a shooter mechanic that will bridge the experience gap between different platforms.

With the new title, the company aims to develop an entire cross-platform IP to finalize the transformation into a major developer and publisher of live games and living worlds. As a first step, we have already increased our headcount to 67 with over 22 nationalities and expect to grow to 100 by end of 2023.

Fall 2022 will see the long-awaited start of this transformation with the release of Homeworld Mobile and the early access of Dawn of Ages. While the former is published by Gearbox Publishing with support from us, the latter will be entirely self-published.

„Project Colonies“ ist eine inhaltliche Erweiterung von „Homeworld Mobile“. Der in sich abgeschlossene herunterladbare Inhalt (DLC) erweitert die Spielwelt und Funktionen des Massive-Multiplayer-Online Games, welches im Juli 2021, im Rahmen eines Soft Launch, veröffentlicht wird. Spieler übernehmen in „Homeworld Mobile“ und später in „Project Colonies“ die Aufgaben eines Kommandanten einer Flotte von Raumschiffen, steuern ein Mutterschiff durch eine unbekannte Galaxie und müssen dabei Aufgaben erfüllen, Ressourcen abbauen, Technologien erforschen, Schiffe konstruieren und verwalten, Offiziere ausbilden und diese sinnvoll einsetzen. In Raids und Missionen können Spieler dabei auf der ganzen Welt zusammenspielen und sich gegenseitig unterstützen.

Die deutsche Spieleförderung unterstützt die Entwicklung mit 364.712,00 €.