After 14 years in development and $860 million racked up in crowdfunding, Star Citizen director hopes single-player spin-off Squadron 42 will be "an event almost as important" as GTA 6

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Star Citizen director Chris Roberts has astronomically high expectations for the 2026 launch of the game's single-player spinoff, Squadron 42, saying he hopes it's almost as big an event as GTA 6's release the same year. And as it turns out, he's not entirely unreasonable in saying that.

For one, this GamesRadar+ article reporting on Star Citizen's announcement is old enough to start high school, and even that says the game had already been in development for a year. If that's not enough, according to the latest publicly available funding stats, Star Citizen has raised a staggering $859 million in crowdfunding, making it one of the most expensive video games ever made.