Starlite: Astronaut Rescue - Developed in Collaboration with NASA

Starlite: Astronaut Rescue launched on January 27, 2014 as a self-described "20 minute mini-adventure" — a short, self-contained experience. The store description explicitly positions it as the first release in a series leading into the larger multiplayer game "Starlite: Astronaut Academy," which was planned for summer 2014. However, that follow-up game never materialized as a separate product on this store page. Shortly after launch, the developer announced an additional multiplayer level ("Mars Orbit G-Ball") on January 28, 2014, but no evidence exists that this was ever delivered. The developer's last known communication came on September 17, 2015, in a post acknowledging the game's poor long-term reviews. In that post, they described this title as "a little game meant to be played once" and "several years old," and redirected interested players toward a different, unrelated project called "Star Rangers" at a different studio (Awestruck Games). This statement effectively signals that the developer considers this game finished and has moved on. There have been no developer communications since September 17, 2015 — over ten years ago. The announced multiplayer level was never confirmed as shipped, but given the developer's own characterization of the game as a completed, one-time experience and their explicit pivot to other work, the game is best understood as having launched as a finished product in January 2014, with any add-on plans having been quietly abandoned.