Those hoping to explore the planet Sarkash, in Step Creative Group's upcoming adventure Inhabited Island: Earthling, before christmas are going to be disappointed. As first reported by Blue's News and confirmed by the publisher's game site the release date has been changed from its early 2006 estimate to the first quarter of next year.

Inhabited Island, based on the best-seller by Strugatsky brothers, puts you in the shoes of Maksim who winds up on the planet Sarkash, where he meets an alternate human civilization after a nuclear war has obliterated the planet's egology. Maksim finds that the remaining survivor's integrity is questionable at best.

So if all goes well we'll be exploring a post-apocalyptic planet alongside Maksim Kammerer before next summer.