Greetings scientists! Today is quite a chunky news day with a slew of announcements, so let's get stuck in. As you may have seen, we just took part in the Spring Galaxies Showcase on Twitch & YouTube. At this event, we announced two very important tidbits of info:
Forever Skies is coming to Xbox
The Final Echoes Update (previously known as Echoes Part 3) will be released alongside it in Summer 2026.
Right out of the gate, let's talk about 4 major points we think a lot of you might have with this news.
1. "Summer 2026 is a little vague". We know, sorry. But we are still in the process of getting everything lined up, so we don't have the exact date ourselves and don't want to set one publicly until we're 100% certain. But we're talking a few months tops here.
2. "You said Spring 2026". Yes, that was our plan. But then the more we got stuck in, the more content we started adding. And since your feedback was still being looked at, the ideas kept coming. So this has turned out to be a much bigger update than we initially planned. We are, however, now pretty much content locked, so it's a matter of finishing all the cool stuff we've got started and not adding more. Anyone on the team who now comes up with additional ideas is sent to a timeout and told to write a company email explaining the value of deadlines and why making players wait even longer is a no no. Promise.
Sometime around May and June, we'll start showing you a lot more of what is coming to Forever Skies. 3. "The Xbox version is delaying Echoes 3". It's not. We promise. Our Xbox port is being worked on by an external partner, and they are porting the existing game as it is right now. Echoes 3 content is then patched in the same way as we'd do it for PC. So if anything, the Xbox version is waiting for the Echoes to be done and not the other way around.
4. "This is the final update to the game?" No. The Final Echoes does NOT mean that after this, we'll never update the game ever again. This is just a way to name and wrap up the updates in a way that makes sense. We'll still do additional updates that add fixes and some content based on your feedback, just not on such a massive, game-changing scale as we did with the Echoes initiative.
Alongside our big announcements about Xbox and Echoes, we have launched our biggest discounts on Steam to date. For the first time ever, you can grab Forever Skies at 50% off
The sale runs until April 30th.
And finally, in case you missed it, today is also the full launch of our official Forever Skies plushie campaign. Together with Makeship, we're bringing your Friendly Insect Buddy from the game into the real world.
This little buddy already kept you company during our envisioned apocalypse, so it only makes sense to let them be there for you during the real-world nightmare we've got going on around us right now! <3
Our little dude will cost 29.99 USD plus shipping. Here's the link:
https://www.makeship.com/products/friendly-insect-plushie
That's it for this chunky news drop. Thanks for reading! -Team Far From Home