How did you find the game?

[Sir_Tramalot]

I don't know if there is a thread like this, but how did you find the game?

I found it with Nerd³'s Free Games!

[DChurchill]

Steam had an "Early Release" deal for $19.95 a few months ago.

Build your own space program? Heck yeah! Sign me up!

[JaySmoka]

Someone at my job show me youtube videos. Hooked from that second.

[Nukas]

I found it when i was going ot the bathroom i noticed my brother watching a video i then ask him the game watched a few videos then i got it later.....

[Festivefire]

a friend introduced me to this game back when we only had static fins, one stack decoupler, radial decoupler, one engine, one pod, one tank, and one srb. and a tricoupler, as well as no other bodies but kerbin and the sun (which didn't have a surface). i instantly stopped playing orbiter and went to this

[Ford_Prefect]

I work for a german gamesportal named spieletipps an should write tips & tricks to a horrible 4X-game called Legends of Pegasus last summer. The game sucked and wasn't even finished; I wanted to play some 4X, though, and started a thread in the forums, asking about alternatives. Months after the game had died and the original thread had been deleted someone posted KSP in the second one. I downloaded the demo and soon after that bought the game.

[rodion_herrera]

Saw it in the Orbiter forums a couple of years ago. Didn't have much time to try it out back then, so I only got "aboard" around 0.17-ish.

[Brabbit1987]

Started watching Scott Manley videos, and thought the game looked cool.

[Sapphire]

A pretty long chain, actually. My boyfriend is the one who got me into all the sci-fi and fantasy stuff, and he hooked me on Skyrim, which I really enjoyed. Then when browsing Youtube for funny Skyrim videos, I found Robbaz's channel, and he's frikkin' hilarious. And he plays KSP, so after watching a few of those videos, I was hooked! Downloaded the demo, crashed a few rockets, and bought the game the very next day.

[razark]

A couple of co-workers were discussing it at the office one day, so I found the demo. After playing that for a few weeks, .16 was released, so I bought it. They hadn't been following the development, so I got to see some great reactions when they saw a Kerbal on EVA.

[animalcross]

Found it when I was looking for free games on Google. This was around .11

[Jeff Bird]

Googled space sim. It was a few hits from the top.

[acealeam]

A friend. Then nerdcubed did it and I was completely convinced.

[Spoo Hunter]

I found it on Steam. Played the demo and was hooked.

[(An Original Name)]

I found the game from yet another youtuber, Robbaz. I've been hooked ever since

[oggylt]

I saw one minecrafter Cubehamster playing it, i loved the idea

[technicalfool]

Youtube videos from years ago, when I was still playing with Orbiter. Wondered what the game was until a few people on various chat rooms explained it.

[regex]

A coworker mentioned it one day, I tried the demo and immediately ponied-up the cash for 0.16(?). It was installed on my now-defunct gaming box and I hadn't touched it for a while, but then I noticed it on Steam and I transferred it to my account, and promptly installed 0.20 on my laptop.

[Fyzzi]

I started playing when the game was 0.15-ish and the person, responsible for all the freaking loss of my free time (the one that I'm thankful to ) is pretty well known youtuber Kurtjmac...

[Kerbal01]

I found it on a whim during a browse of the FyreUK minecraft forums.

[Pinduli]

I've known about it for quite a while, back in the summer of 2012 my friend mentioned the demo.

[SiliconPyro]

My buddy is an EE for an aerospace company. He sent me an email that started like this:

What I'm about to show you is something that will literally eat hours upon hours from your day. All I can say is that I'm sorry.

My response:

Damn you. It's like NASA + Minecraft. Damn you.

I don't think I even downloaded the demo and four hours later I felt like I could do anything after achieving an insanely eccentric orbit. Good times.

[DisarmingBaton5]

Kurtjmac. Took me until 0.17 to try the game for myself, though.

[Nuin]

I have seen the game before but didn't pick it up until the Steam sale this past weekend. I can't believe what I was missing!

Edited June 19, 2013 by Nuin

[Dkmdlb]

A coworker asked me if I was interested in gaming and explained that he found a game where the objective is to build and fly various rockets like NASA and "it's really realistic, like, it has all the real stuff like apoapsis and stuff."

I thought he was talking about hypoxia or something and was like "yeah, ok. Cool. *walks away slowly*"

Then watched a few youtube videos and got it that same day. My three year-old son is a massive fan. He loves the rockets and knows all the terminology (staging, rendezvous, orbit, etc).