Star Citizen is an in-development multiplayer area trading and combat simulation video game developed and released by Cloud Imperium Gamings for Microsoft Windows. A spiritual successor to 2003 s Freelancer, Star Citizen is being led by supervisor Chris Roberts. The video game was revealed in 2012 through a successful Kickstarter project which reeled in over US$ 2 million. Pre-production of the video game started in 2010, with manufacturing beginning in 2011. Star Citizen has become extremely criticized throughout its lengthy production process, both for the truth that there is still no clear release date and for the challenges backers that have abandoned the job have actually dealt with in obtaining a refund. The launch of the video game was originally anticipated for 2014, yet was continuously delayed. In 2013, Cloud Imperium Gamings began launching parts of the video game, referred to as components , to offer players with the opportunity to experience gameplay functions before launc...