Having completed its Early Access voyage, the official launch of Reentry - A Space Flight Simulator has splashed down on Steam, where it’s now available with a 20% discount. Lyra Creative discusses the news in this post, outlining what has changed for the full release along with thank you for Early Access players who helped get things to this point. It also serves the Launch Trailer which highlights this game’s obsession with realistically recreating the early days of the space race. Here’s more on this love letter to NASA and the fine line it walks between sim and game:

Reentry is a space flight simulator based on real life spacecrafts, and aims to meet the middle-ground between a simulator and a game. You create a new astronaut, gain levels and experience for every move you make by completing missions in space. You will have access to missions similar to what happened in real life, or fictional missions designed to challenge you as an astronaut.

Spacecrafts are highly complicated machines with the primary task of exploring and understanding what’s outside the atmosphere of Earth, while keeping the astronauts alive for long periods. This is achieved by hundreds of individual systems and backup systems working together. With the help from the in-game Space Flight Academy, the provided flight manual for each spacecraft, and checklists, you will learn how to fly and operate these machines, and explore space in a high resolution and realistic environment.