Space Quest: 2099

Space Quest: 2099

Released Jan 2022

BLAST YOUR WAY through the UK's forgotten favourite space adventure: Space Quest 2099!Enjoy combat and movement based on the designs of the Quake 3 engine. Go alone or team up and shoot baddies in cooperative episodes with FULL MOTION VIDEO with SPECIAL EFFECTS!

90% positive · 156 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Space Quest: 2099 is a free-to-play indie FPS released on January 25, 2022 by a solo developer who describes it as a personal project started in their teens, released "for free, for the world." The store description frames it as a completed passion project rather than an ongoing service. After launch, the developer shipped a handful of updates: a couple of early feature patches in early 2022 adding campaign fixes and a new wave survival mode, and then a substantial "Arena Update" on May 27, 2024 — the most significant post-launch release, adding a PVP overhaul, AI bots, new playable characters, a finalised game mode, and cut-content cutscenes. Notably, the inclusion of "cut-content cutscenes" in the Extras section suggests the developer was archiving previously unreleased material rather than building toward future releases. Since the Arena Update on May 27, 2024, there have been no further developer communications of any kind. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced roadmap, no stated plans for future content, and no sustained cadence of major updates that would suggest more is coming. The developer's overall post-launch history — just one major content release over more than four years — does not establish a pattern pointing to ongoing development. The store description's framing of the game as a finished personal project released to the public reinforces this picture. With no outstanding commitments, no announced future content, and the last update appearing to wrap up remaining content into the game's extras, Space Quest: 2099 reads as a complete, self-contained game.
Evidence
The Arena Update — the game's one major post-launch content release — shipped a PVP overhaul, AI bots, three new playable characters, a finalised game mode, and archived cut-content cutscenes in an Extras section. The inclusion of cut-content material suggests a wrap-up of remaining assets.
news post · May 27, 2024 source content shipped
high
Beta release of the Plunder of the Space Pirates cooperative defence mode, alongside bug fixes and quality-of-life changes.
news post · Oct 10, 2022 source content shipped
medium

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Lever Studios
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP

About this game



Space Quest 2099 is a stylised, multiplayer, sci-fi, action-driven first person shooter. Think Quake 3 meets Command and Conquer, complete with live action cutscenes, terribly cheesy one liners, and an utterly balls to the wall stupid cooperative campaign!

Grab some friends and take control of Thunderchild's intrepid crew to embark on intergalactic space adventures! Alternatively, blow each other to smithereens in Space Quest's deathmatch suite!



Gameplay reminiscent of the glory days of late 1990s and early 2000s cheese by Raven Software

This game is actually an old school project that flew WAYYYY out of control. I've tinkered with Space Quest on and off for the past couple of years now. It's a project that was started when I was seventeen years old as a way to procrastinate doing A level maths, and was last touched when I was twenty a couple years back. I'd never really gotten around to releasing it, but here it is now. For free. For the world.





Special thanks to Blake Robinson's Synthetic Orchestra for royalty free soundtrack use.


*Taste may vary, you might prefer a space adventure that's little more high budget - this game was created on a budget of £40.
Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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