It’s always easy to understimate just how long games can take to create. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a powerhouse like Grand Theft Auto 6 or something much smaller like Nova Drift, these things are always going to take much longer than planned. Nova Drift had a Kickstarter back in 2017, after which all backers got Steam beta access a couple weeks later. Official Early Access landed in 2019, and after five years of steady updates today sees its official launch into 1.0. It seems like a lot of time for an Asteroids-style shooter, but there’s a lot of depth in the build possibilities of its pick-one-of-several powerup system and tuning it properly takes time.