XO

XO has been in Early Access since December 2019 and remains there. The developer — a solo developer at Jumpdrive Studios — has shipped seven major content updates during Early Access, the most recent being version 1.49 ("Antepenultimatesimal") on January 20, 2025, which introduced initial modding support, five new ships, expanded events, and a wide range of quality-of-life improvements. A bug-fix update (v1.49f) followed on June 26, 2025, resolving a long-standing crash affecting Nvidia RTX 30xx/40xx graphics cards. That June 2025 post explicitly states that "more modding support, some visual improvements and more surprises" are planned next. The January 2025 major update post specifically announced that version 1.50 will open the game to significantly deeper modding — including custom events, custom 3D ship models, and total conversions — and confirmed that more ships and content are coming before the full release of XO. The developer has consistently communicated plans for a 1.0 launch and continues to work toward it with clearly stated upcoming deliverables. As of today, October 8, 2026, the last developer communication was on June 26, 2025 — approximately 15 months ago. While the update cadence for major releases has historically been roughly 6–13 months apart, the gap since the last communication is notable. However, the developer left explicit commitments in place (v1.50 modding expansion, more ships, more content, full release) and has not posted anything to indicate those plans have changed. Given the outstanding commitments and the developer's consistent track record through multiple years of updates, the game remains in Early Access with content actively planned ahead of a 1.0 launch.