We began the Cosmic Miners project with a big dream. Our team was small, but our vision was vast. Despite a limited budget, we poured our passion and belief into building this universe.

Throughout the Early Access period, we released over 30 updates, improving the game step by step with your feedback.

Unfortunately, our sales haven’t reached the level needed to sustain ongoing development. For that reason, we’ve made the difficult decision to pause active development of Cosmic Miners for now.

We want to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who supported us. Those who played the game, shared feedback, and lifted our spirits with kind words. Your support is what made it possible for us to come this far.

Moving forward, we’re exploring opportunities to bring new investors on board who can help us continue this project. We also welcome volunteer developers or artists who wish to contribute to the Cosmic Miners universe. Please feel free to reach out to us.

We truly hope this is just a short break. The world of Cosmic Miners still has many stories to tell and countless planets waiting to be discovered. We can’t wait for the day we return, stronger than ever.

With love and gratitude,

The Cosmic Miners Development Team

Posted by: That One Guy Loki from That One Game Studio

Hey folks! Loki here — solo dev, night owl, and long-time lover of shop sims and small-scale racing chaos. I’ve been quietly working away on Pocket Racer Shop Sim, a game about running your own hobby shop, cracking open part packs, tinkering on tiny race cars, and hosting race nights with your friends… all wrapped in a chill, cozy shop sim vibe.

Thanks for checking out the project — I figured the first post should be a proper introduction to both the game and myself, so let’s jump in.

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At its core, it’s a blend of:

• Shop Simulator – Stock shelves, set up displays, decorate your workspace, and keep your customers happy.

• Car Builder / Tinkerer Sandbox – Hunt for parts, open booster packs, compare stats, and build the perfect little racer.

• Track Designer – Use the editor to create simple or wild race tracks that demand different builds to win.

• Small-Scale Racing – Fast, fun, and a little chaotic. Tune your car, test your setups, and watch them tear around your tracks.

• Multiplayer Social Hangout – Bring your save file and your cars to a friend’s shop, race together, and show off your builds.

It’s cozy, creative, and just competitive enough when it matters — on the racetrack.

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One of the most addictive systems already in place is the part pack opening.
You’ll rip open randomized packs to find motors, gears, wheels, batteries, chassis, and more — all with stats that change how your racer handles.

Looking for that higher-tier gears?
Hunting for the perfect balanced wheels?
Chasing a specific rare motor pull?

Welcome to the rabbit hole.

And once you’ve got the parts…

You can build, tweak, tune, and test your creations.

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The track designer is already taking shape, and even in its current state it’s surprisingly powerful.

• Mix and match pieces

• Build large sprawling tracks or small tight circuits

• Make tracks that encourage specific car setups

The goal is that every player can build something fun and unique — and share it with friends in multiplayer.

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This is the part I’m most excited about.

At any time while playing singleplayer, you can host your save and invite friends into your shop.

Your friends bring:

• Their cars

• Their inventory

• Their progression

And inside your shop they can:

• Buy packs

• Upgrade their cars at your workbench

• Race on your tracks

Think of it like inviting friends over to your real-life hobby shop to swap parts, talk builds, and run race nights together.

It’s social, it’s chill, and it’s already working in the playtest.

Right now multiplayer is aiming for 4–8 players depending on testing, but even with 2–4 it already feels like a fun hangout.

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I’m not committing to dates — I work nights, and the motto around here is
“It’ll be ready when it’s ready.”
But I can give you a look at what’s cooking for the future:

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• More track pieces (ramps, corners, straights, special sections)

• Loads more car parts to expand tuning depth

• More pack types including higher rarity tiers

• More shop furniture & décor to improve Ambience and creativity

• New shopper models & shopper personality traits

• Rent dues system for a touch of shop-management strategy

• Deeper shop customization tools

• Car Rating System to help compare builds and progression

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• Hirable staff for your growing shop

• Track-based leaderboards

• Player emotes for multiplayer personality

• Market events (sales, shortages, specialty parts, etc.)

• Player model customization

• Weather systems to change the shop vibe

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On the subject of “What’s coming next”… let’s just say someone keeps sitting on the checkout counter.

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Pocket Racer Shop Sim is currently in a closed playtest, but I’ll be expanding access as things stabilize and as I move toward a public demo. Stay on the look out for future updates as I open it up to more testers.

If this whole vibe seems up your alley:

Please Wishlist the game — it helps SO much!
Would love to hear your thoughts and opinions as we build this game together, so hit that Discuss button and leave a comment.

Thanks for being here.
Can’t wait to share more soon.

— That One Guy Loki
That One Game Studio

Quite a lot in this update!

• Complete map generation with a single button click

• More map tile types including: corn fields, dirt roads and hills

• Outbreak intensity score calculated per scenario from weak, to historic and even super-outbreak!

• Default slider values set to more reasonable values for scenario customisation

• More consistent road texturing

• Fixed tears/seams between some map tiles

• Improved scene tile loading to be less CPU intensive

This is starting to feel more like a game, it's actually really fun now trying to navigate the map, trying to keep up with the tornado while trying to predict what it will do next based on the CAPE and SRH environment it's moving into.

Screenshots below!

Hi all!

Since last time there have been another large batch of changes, fixes, and optimizations in anticipation of release on Steam Early Access soon!

• Feature: Add attention-grabbing sprite animation to the map to make it easier to see at a glance where you are and where you're going

• Enhancement: Improvements to UI layouts and text readability:

  • Party status pages

  • Party health pages

  • Fishing minigame

• Fix: Weather was not being loaded from save file

• Change: Remove left-click from being used in exploration interactions (now it's just 'E' or 'F')

• Change: Add close button to fishing minigame

• Change: Make fishing minigame ball a little bit faster

• Change: Increase base detection radius for exploration POIs from 50 -> 70

• Change: Append year to backup save file names

Journey to Alpha: Arrived!

Journey to Playtesting: Arrived!

Journey to Early Access: Coming soon!

Journey to Release: Coming soon!

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Discord Server:

https://discord.gg/234V3TFZ6y

Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/starcatgames.ltd

I have since moved on to Bluesky for all social media updates! Feel free to follow me there! :)

Thanks for reading!

- C

Hi everyone!

First off, thank you SO MUCH for playing and supporting the game, the reception has blown us away.

We’ve just released a small patch to the game that addresses some rare soft locks and an issue that made certain webcam setups (namely Iriun Webcam users) run very poorly.

• Refactored some webcam code to fix Iriun fps drops and (hopefully) improve performance across the board

• Fixed a German translation in chapter 20

• Fixed a rare blocker in chapter 22

• Fixed a minor issue where a text choice could be selected unintentionally in chapter 40

• Fixed loud noise at the leftmost geolocation boundary in chapter 42

Two things ended up broken. And fixed them.
Brime Town had Festival decorations that blocked a few things. So fixed that.
One text option with shadow creature in Kadin's home locked the game.

We are extremely excited to announce that soon, YOU will be able to play Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School in the comfort of your own home!

This is your chance to get a first-peek at what Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School has to offer, so don’t miss it!

This demo will step you through around an hour of early-game content, which takes place in the Headmaster’s Tower - if you’ve been keeping up with our blogs, you’ll remember we recently did a deep-dive into this space and what you can expect! The Purfessor had a little communication for you - shoutouts to these users for picking up on what the Purfessor was putting down!

🔥Rocket-O-Saurus

🔥atlee.sebastian

If you’re not familiar, the Giant Bomb Bombathon is a yearly event run on the Giant Bomb podcast. Go check out the VOD of them playing the demo down below and leave a comment telling us how excited you are for Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School! Don’t write any of the answers down though - cheating is heavily frowned upon at the Academy.

Check it out here! ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWZ_oCp2zzM&

We’ll be hosting a speedrunning competition in the Discord once the demo launches. To participate, you’ll just need to make sure you’re in the Discord when the demo goes live.

There’ll be more details on the way, but if you know anything about our history as a studio, racing isn’t entirely new to us…cough Hot Wheels King Of The Road cough…

(yep, that was us!)

The Coin Crew could not have made it here without you. For everyone who wishlisted, watched our journey, and to those who plan to, thank you so much for your support. We won’t let you down. From the bottoms of our hearts, thank you.

Please make sure to drop a review on the demo, and let us know what’s going on! If you have more specific feedback or just want to say hi to the devs, feel free to join our Discord and say hello. We’re always looking for new faces at the Academy, and there just might be some community-themed events on the horizon that you just won’t get on Steam…

Thank you again - we couldn’t have done this without you. And lastly, don’t forget to…

With Much Love,

Coin Crew Games💛💜

We are extremely excited to announce that soon, YOU will be able to play Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School in the comfort of your own home!

This is your chance to get a first-peek at what Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School has to offer, so don’t miss it!

This demo will step you through around an hour of early-game content, which takes place in the Headmaster’s Tower - if you’ve been keeping up with our blogs, you’ll remember we recently did a deep-dive into this space and what you can expect! The Purfessor had a little communication for you - shoutouts to these users for picking up on what the Purfessor was putting down!

🔥Rocket-O-Saurus

🔥atlee.sebastian

If you’re not familiar, the Giant Bomb Bombathon is a yearly event run on the Giant Bomb podcast. Go check out the VOD of them playing the demo down below and leave a comment telling us how excited you are for Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School! Don’t write any of the answers down though - cheating is heavily frowned upon at the Academy.

Check it out here! ⬇️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWZ_oCp2zzM&

We’ll be hosting a speedrunning competition in the Discord once the demo launches. To participate, you’ll just need to make sure you’re in the Discord when the demo goes live.

There’ll be more details on the way, but if you know anything about our history as a studio, racing isn’t entirely new to us…cough Hot Wheels King Of The Road cough…

(yep, that was us!)

The Coin Crew could not have made it here without you. For everyone who wishlisted, watched our journey, and to those who plan to, thank you so much for your support. We won’t let you down. From the bottoms of our hearts, thank you.

Please make sure to drop a review on the demo, and let us know what’s going on! If you have more specific feedback or just want to say hi to the devs, feel free to join our Discord and say hello. We’re always looking for new faces at the Academy, and there just might be some community-themed events on the horizon that you just won’t get on Steam…

Thank you again - we couldn’t have done this without you. And lastly, don’t forget to…

With Much Love,

Coin Crew Games💛💜

We've been hard at work with some upcoming songs, but in the meantime we've got something else...

Already played everything in the maingame? Want somewhere that's easy to access for customs? It's Workshop time! We've added support for uploading and downloading custom songs directly to and from the Steam Workshop, as well as custom costume support!

Note that there are certain restrictions to abide by- any rhythm game original or artist whose work features heavily in rhythm games is disallowed (unless you get explicit permission.) You can check the guidelines (as well as artists who have explicitly given permission for their works) in our Workshop Guidelines and Permissions spreadsheet.

Another Challenge appears! Cast your gaze upwards as the clouds drift by... and try to manage multiple paddles in the process. Try not to get carried away!

anyways, here are tha patch noats. for the nitty-gritty:

Additions (Main game)

• NEW LEVEL: "cloud factory" by yeetyote & Rikri is now available in the challenge section!

  • There is now also a corresponding costume and achievement for this level.

• Added custom costume editor and publishing + downloading via Steam Workshop

  • Costumes created for use with the unofficial "Skin Drawer" mod should be fully backwards compatible. Thanks to thatguytheman for making the original mod, and for help with getting this working!

• Added a costume for getting an A rank or higher on Spin Cycle

• Added a Tangent chart for ILOVEYOU.vbs. It's Really Hard, so watch out.

  • Now that there is more than one Tangent chart, an achievement has been added for passing one

• Added an easier difficulty to the following levels: Destroy, Destroy (feat. eili), +ERABY+E CONNEC+10N, and Era Chimæra

• All levels now have joystick LED effects! Be sure to try it out with a compatible controller, like a Dualshock 4 or a Dualsense

• Replaced the broken "No Barelies" toggle with an accessibility option that allows for default, lenient, or strict barelies

Additions (Level editor and custom levels)

• Added Steam Workshop support for level publishing and downloading

• Added "Load Custom Font" event to the editor

• Added "Set joystick color" event to the editor

• New RTF tags added, check editor guide for more info

Changes (Main game)

• Nerfed unlock condition for DAMOCLISM, it now requires 7 or fewer misses on a difficulty 7 chart, instead of 0 misses

• Redid the file structure of the game so future updates don't need to download as much data for small changes

• Chart improvements for Rhythmic Shield (Hard)

• Visual improvements in ILOVEYOU.vbs, Omelette Cafe By Road 38 (Easy), and Empty Diary

• Main menu selection is now saved when moving to another state

• Reworked completion indicators to be based on a set variant "slot" instead of variant order.

• "Resumed from pause" accessibility indicator no longer activates if no notes had been hit yet when the player paused

• Normalized volume for level intros

• Renamed "Challenge" difficulty to "Expert"

Bug fixes (Main game)

• Achievements should now be working on MacOS again

• Fixed freeplay/customs sorting menu misbehaving

• Fixed yet another crash with Era Chimæra's results screen

• Reduced crashiness of force-closing the game from the task bar

• Improved crash log consistency

• Fixed text errors in gone fishin'

• Accuracy numbers now round down, preventing confusion about rank requirements

• RTF changerate property no longer persists through different levels

Bug fixes (Level editor and custom levels)

• Fixed as many custom song select crashes as we could. If you run into levels that still crash the custom song select screen, please report them to us!

• Side particles now respect objectRotation

• Fixed crash related to kyFake variable in text decos

• Fixed combo counter line wrapping behavior

• Fixed shake and rotation interaction in text decos

• Fixed multiselect crash with modded/invalid events

• Moving a multiselection now moves the selection area

• Fixed editor property text duplication glitch

A collab with Crystallium will be happening in the future!

Destroy, Destroy (ft. eili) will be a playable song on their end, while Beatblock will have Magicis • Phantasmatibus playable in the Collabs section!

We're so back. Beatblock will be headed to MAGfest 2026 as part of its Indie Videogame Showcase (or MIVS for short!) We'll have the full song selection on display with the Cranktroller. If you're planning to attend or are in the area, swing by and give it a spin!

That's about everything! Thank you very much for playing Beatblock. We'll continue working hard, and we've got a lot coming up in the future! (=( ^^ )

- CV, Bubbletabby

Discord: https://discord.gg/MAXGRYPMSw

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Twitter/X: https://x.com/BeatblockGame

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