EDITORIAL RECORD · PUBLIC EVIDENCE
Dear Passengers Official Source and Claim Ledger
A public evidence ledger mapping Dear Passengers claims to Steam, FLEXUS, official videos, and attributed interviews, with confidence and update triggers.
Reporting rule: confirmed facts are tied to named sources. Interpretation is labeled, and missing details stay unknown until FLEXUS or Steam publishes them.
Purpose:this page makes the site's evidence inspectable. Each high-impact claim has a status, current answer, named source, and an event that would justify changing it. “Unknown” is a maintained result, not a blank to fill with a rumor.
Current claim ledger
Source hierarchy
- Live official fields: the Steam store page for date, modes, platform, languages, and requirements.
- Developer announcements: FLEXUS-controlled Steam news, studio pages, and official videos.
- Named interviews: statements attributed to identifiable FLEXUS leaders, kept in the wording and context reported.
- Independent reporting: useful for context, never silently upgraded to a developer promise.
- Community discussion: useful for discovering questions, not for confirming answers.
How visual evidence is handled
A trailer can confirm that footage shows a cockpit, passenger service, turbulence, unusual cargo, or first-person interaction. It cannot confirm the maximum lobby size, a complete progression system, every launch feature, or whether a staged clip behaves the same in a public build. Captions on this site identify official imagery and do not claim ownership.
How conflicts are resolved
Newer primary information wins over an older summary. If Steam changes a field, the current store value becomes the answer and the relevant tracker receives a dated update. If two official pages disagree, both are retained until FLEXUS clarifies the conflict; this site does not select the more exciting version.
Numbers are attributed. For example, wishlist milestones are written as figures FLEXUS reported because Steam does not expose a public wishlist counter. The wishlist timeline preserves every checkpoint and explains why those totals are not sales data.
Correction procedure
Email [email protected] with the page URL, disputed sentence, and a primary source. We check the current official field, update the affected tracker, revise the date, and keep uncertainty visible when the evidence is incomplete.
What this ledger deliberately excludes
Search snippets, key-reseller listings, release-date databases without citations, anonymous social posts, fan-edited tags, and speculative videos do not move a claim to confirmed. External pages may be linked for commentary, but the status board changes only when evidence meets the hierarchy above.
For a reader-facing summary of the same boundaries, use the confirmed-versus-unknown guide. For the two fields most likely to change next, watch the release and demo tracker.
Sources checked
- Dear Passengers official Steam listing ↗
Live primary source for storefront fields, modes, languages, features, and minimum PC requirements.
- Dear Passengers official website ↗
Primary game website linked by the Steam store, including official Steam, Discord, X, Instagram, and FLEXUS destinations.
- FLEXUS official Steam news ↗
Primary announcement archive used for dated wishlist and development milestones.
- FLEXUS official website ↗
Primary source for studio identity, portfolio, location, and company description.
- Attributed founder interview on dev.ua ↗
Named secondary publication used only for statements directly attributed to FLEXUS leadership.
- Official announcement trailer ↗
Primary visual source; used to describe visible actions, not unshown mode limits or scoring rules.