Despite months in Steam Early Access and hundreds of positive player reviews, Stellaris Nexus is no more. Instead, the spin-off is taking the rare step of rebranding itself – dropping its Stellaris branding entirely – to launch with a new name.
Announced last year as a speedier version of the 4X genre, the project will now be called Nexus 5X (the fifth ‘X’ is for ‘eXpress’).
“The whole point of Early Access is to figure out what about your game works and what needs to be better – and the big lesson for us was that our name needed to be better,” Whataboy Games studio director Dax Ginn told Eurogamer.
