Hi folks. I like to play strategy games like Civilization 6 and Stellaris using shorter settings, I've beaten them in around 6 to 8 hours multiple times. However, even that has been a lot of time and energy to spend on a game lately, especially one to play only now and then... Is SR2 (or 1) a game that can be made even shorter while still having a decent amount of strategic- and simulation-depth and replay-value? I've been told so but couldn't find a lot of information about it, which is why I decided to ...

So at current projections, we'll have enough money to make our planned expansion - and then we'll have to close down the studio as it'll just be too risky to pursue another project. That projection lands us some time in October-December we think. If you like the game, let folks know: write some reviews on Steam/GOG/GamersGate, shoot e-mails to your favorite news sources and let's players! Your opinions matter! Show folks there is room in the 4x corner for a game that dares to break away from the M...

Hi everyone! It's been a few years now since Blind Mind Studios went inactive, so we figured if we're not doing anything with the code to SR2 we should just release it under an open source license. If anyone is interested in seeing how the engine works, or tweaking whatever, the code for SR2's StarFlare engine is now fully available at https://github.com/BlindMindStudios/StarRuler2-Source The repository includes build instructions for windows and linux, but no prebuilt binaries, this does mean everyone c...

FYI: Germany got a new law active from the 15th November. Since this game has no (german specific) age-recommendations, it's blocked from the Steam-Store in Germany. Valve has already contacted all affected developers and while most new / in development games do this age-recommendation they are not affected. Though lots of older and/or unsupported games like this one is no longer sold in germany as long as the developer hasn't made the changes on the store-page....

I was nearing my Steam cloud save limit, so went through my list to see which games were taking up a considerable amount of space, and I noticed Star Ruler 2 saying that it was using up 142.54MB. Loading up the game, though, I just found a couple of old save files, and after deleting those, the cloud save listing didn't get affected at all. So what/where are these cloud saves, and how can I get rid of them? Normally, when you load up a game with Steam cloud saves enabled, if you're missing them, it'll j...