Record 1067360 · Provenance
Pax Autocratica used to be Earth From Another Sun
They are the same Steam app. Not a sequel, not a spin-off, not a studio reusing an engine: the identical store listing, app ID 1067360, renamed in place at some point between May and September 2025.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2019-08-19. Opens in a new tab.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2025-09-01. Opens in a new tab.Source, primary tier: Steam storefront appdetails API, appid 1067360, published by Valve. Opens in a new tab.
That matters for two reasons. If you bought a game called Earth From Another Sun years ago, it is worth knowing what happened to it. And if you are weighing the developer's estimate of roughly two years in Early Access, this app's own store page has been publishing release dates since 2019, which gives you something concrete to weigh it against.
How we know
The proof is the title inside each archived capture. The August 2019 capture of app 1067360 is titled Earth From Another Sun on Steam
and lists Multiverse as both developer and publisher.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2019-08-19. Opens in a new tab. The September 2025 capture of the same app is titled Pax Autocratica on Steam
.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2025-09-01. Opens in a new tab. Today's listing is Pax Autocratica, developed and published by Multiverse.Source, primary tier: Steam storefront appdetails API, appid 1067360, published by Valve. Opens in a new tab.
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The release date that kept moving
Each row is one archived capture of Steam app 1067360. The round mark is the day the page was captured. The amber mark is the release date that page was advertising on that day. The distance between them is how far off the game still was, according to the store itself. On the last row they meet, because that is the row where it shipped.
Captures that named only a year or a quarter are drawn as a band covering that whole period, rather than as a point, because the source did not commit to a day. The exact wording of every entry is in the table below.
Nine captures from the record
Each row is one archived capture of Steam app 1067360 and the release date that capture was showing. The title column is the page title as archived. The archive holds many more captures of this app than the nine below. These are the ones where the advertised date changed, plus the last capture before each change, which is what makes the sequence legible. Every one is linked so you can check it.
| Captured | Title on the page | Release date shown | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-08-19 | Earth From Another Sun | Nov 25, 2019 | Archive |
| 2020-06-29 | Earth From Another Sun | Aug 2020 | Archive |
| 2021-09-08 | Earth From Another Sun | 2022 | Archive |
| 2022-09-11 | Earth From Another Sun | 2023 | Archive |
| 2023-10-02 | Earth From Another Sun | 2023 | Archive |
| 2025-05-12 | Earth From Another Sun | Q4 2025 | Archive |
| 2025-09-01 | Pax Autocratica | Q4 2025 | Archive |
| 2026-04-11 | Pax Autocratica | May 7, 2026 | Archive |
| 2026-08-10 | Pax Autocratica | Aug 10, 2026released | Primary |
What the record shows
In August 2019 the page advertised a release onNov 25, 2019, adding that the gameplans to unlock in approximately 3 months
.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2019-08-19. Opens in a new tab. It reached Early Access on 10 August 2026, about 6 years later.Source, primary tier: Steam storefront appdetails API, appid 1067360, published by Valve. Opens in a new tab.
Between those two points the page advertised, in order, Aug 2020, then 2022, then 2023, then Q4 2025, then May 7 2026. That makes six distinct release dates the store page carried and did not meet. Each was current at the moment it was captured. The last one is the easiest to check: in April 2026 the page was still showing May 7, 2026,Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2026-04-11. Opens in a new tab. and the game arrived on 10 August.
What did change besides the name
The developer and publisher fields read Multiverse in the 2019 capture and read Multiverse now.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2019-08-19. Opens in a new tab.Source, primary tier: Steam storefront appdetails API, appid 1067360, published by Valve. Opens in a new tab. The genre did move: in 2019 the page was filed under Adventure, Indie
and carried no Early Access tag at all, describing an alpha test rather than an Early Access plan.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2019-08-19. Opens in a new tab. Today the listing is Action, Indie, Simulation and Early Access.Source, primary tier: Steam storefront appdetails API, appid 1067360, published by Valve. Opens in a new tab.
Why this belongs next to the two-year estimate
Asked how long Pax Autocratica would remain in Early Access, Multiverse answered:We currently expect the game to remain in Early Access for approximately two years. However, this timeframe may change depending on development progress and player feedback. Our priority is to keep improving the game and leave Early Access when we feel it is ready for full release.
Source, primary tier: "What the developers have to say": the Early Access questionnaire, published by Multiverse, via the Steam store page. Opens in a new tab.
Read that against the table. This is not an argument that the estimate is wrong, and it is not an accusation: schedules slipping is close to universal in game development, and a studio that keeps working on something for 6 years and ships it is doing better than many that quietly stop. It is an argument that the estimate is a hope rather than a schedule, and that this particular app has a longer public record on that point than most, sitting in a public archive anyone can open.
The practical reading: if a roadmap item is the reason you would buy, the record here suggests buying when that item ships, not in expectation of it. Nothing on theofficial roadmap carries a date at all.
If you already own Earth From Another Sun
What we could not establish
- An announcement of the rename. We found no developer post explaining the change of name or its reasons. Absence of evidence here is genuinely just absence: it may exist somewhere we did not look.
- The exact date. The archive narrows it tobetween 2025-05-12 and 2025-09-01: the last capture under the old title is 12 May 2025 and the first under the new one is 1 September 2025, with no capture in between.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2025-05-12. Opens in a new tab.Source, archive tier: Steam app 1067360, archived, published by Internet Archive Wayback Machine, captured 2025-09-01. Opens in a new tab.
- What the game was like under the old name. Descriptions of early builds of Earth From Another Sun circulate, and some contradict the current store page, which describes a setting called the Tyris System. We are not repeating characterisations of old builds we cannot verify against a primary source.
The Prologue has gone the same way
A separate free listing, Pax Autocratica: Prologue, was published as its own app on 1 December 2025.Source, primary tier: Pax Autocratica: Prologue on Steam, published by Valve / Multiverse. Opens in a new tab.as of 2026-08-11 It is no longer on sale: its Steam page now carries the notice that itis no longer available on the Steam store
, and the main listing links no demo.Source, primary tier: Pax Autocratica: Prologue on Steam, published by Valve / Multiverse. Opens in a new tab.as of 2026-08-11 There is currently no free way to try this game.