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Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era

Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era

Build an industrial base among the stars. Gather resources, manufacture ships, research technologies, and explore unknown regions of space. The core gameplay can be played offline, while alliance features add online missions and cooperative construction.

Released Sep 30, 2026 Developer 音速工业 Platforms Windows Space SimSimulationStrategyIdlerIncremental
View on Steam ↗ $1.99 (US · as of 2026-10-20)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-11 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-09.

50.9%positive55 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“This game could be better if you could set certain ships to mine certain things like for instance using 3 rock breaker class ships to mine the 1st three ores or even increase the mining amount of 1 ore with multiple ships same with collecting gas because it get tedious to switch…”

— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played
Not recommended · 6 found this helpful

“Game needs to work on its progression system. Instead of just having a ship and starting a series of tasks to learn how to navigate the game and build more ships, The first tutorial is building a ship with materials they give you. So my first 5 minutes is just clicking buttons…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 2 found this helpful

“I don't write reviews often. This one is bad enough I thought I should. Not all the help tool tips are translated. The cloud alliance sends you to a tencent page that isn't properly translated (sounds like cloud alliance could be big) and looks like a way to get a virus. Many…”

— a player, Steam review · 108 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.

88achievements
7.3%median completion
0.2%rarest: The Oath of Twenty-Five Titans
80.6% of players 77.4% of players 74.2% of players 63.2% of players 55.6% of players 55.2% of players 51.6% of players 48.7% of players 47.2% of players 38.8% of players 38.1% of players 35.9% of players 33.3% of players 33.2% of players 30.7% of players 30.3% of players 28.7% of players 26.6% of players 25.9% of players 25.5% of players 25.0% of players 24.2% of players 24.1% of players 21.7% of players 21.4% of players 19.4% of players 17.5% of players 17.4% of players 15.2% of players 15.0% of players 14.2% of players 13.3% of players 13.1% of players 12.9% of players 12.7% of players 12.4% of players 11.3% of players 9.8% of players 9.1% of players 8.4% of players 8.0% of players 7.9% of players 7.8% of players 7.7% of players 7.3% of players 7.3% of players 6.9% of players 6.9% of players 6.9% of players 6.5% of players 6.5% of players 6.2% of players 5.6% of players 5.5% of players 5.3% of players 4.9% of players 4.1% of players 4.0% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 80.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
80.6%The First Rivet — Manufacture your first ship component
77.4%Tritanium Ore: The Beginning of Everything — Mine Tritanium Ore for the first time
74.2%Launch Ceremony — Assemble your first ship
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%The Oath of Twenty-Five Titans — Build 25 supercapital ships in total
0.2%Breaking the 100,000,000 Mark — Mine 100,000,000 ore in total
0.7%Judgment: Final Verdict — Assemble your first Judgment-class

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-10-12. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$1.99current · sampled 2026-10-20 11:41 UTC
$1.99lowest since tracking began2026-10-12
US1.99 USD
EU2.09 EUR
UK1.79 GBP
Australia2.80 AUD
Canada2.39 CAD
Japan265 JPY
Brazil7.95 BRL
China11.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$1.6 China Japan Canada Australia US EU UK≈$2.4

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-10-20). Relative comparison only.

$0 $2.5 $5 10-12 10-13 10-15 10-16 10-18 10-20

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Oct 11, 2026
Patch Notes 1.0.12

I. New Content New · Potential Chip Decoding : A new "Potential Chip Decoding" feature is added to the Blueprint Lab, letting you decode "Unknown Potential Chips" into one of three reward types: Enhan

Oct 06, 2026
Patch Notes 1.0.8

I. Updates (New / Improved) Alliance list pagination: a "Load More" button lets you browse every alliance instead of only the 100 most recently created (older alliances with high member counts used to

Oct 04, 2026
Patch Notes 1.0.7

I. Chat Added the World Channel : switch channels at the top of the chat panel to see what players across the server are saying. Chat channel interface refreshed: channel switching is now an underline

Oct 03, 2026
Steam-PatchNotes-1.0.6

Deep Space Idle: Frontier Era Patch Notes 1.0.6 I. Space Station Star Castle (Space Station main body) levels 2 and beyond now cost half the build materials, Starcoin, and build time, easing the mid-t

Oct 02, 2026
PatchNotes-1.0.5

Update Notes — V1.0.5 2026-10-02 Leaderboard The Skill Leaderboard is now live on Steam global leaderboards: 22 boards in total — every skill, the Harvesting / Production / Combat overall boards, and

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-10-09.

GenresCasual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsSpace Sim · Simulation · Strategy · Idler · Incremental · Resource Management · Automation · Exploration · Base Building · Point & Click · Singleplayer · Asynchronous Multiplayer (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Russian, French, Japanese, Korean
Achievements88
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent Memory: 4096 MB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000 or equivalent DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 500 MB available space Sound Card: Any Additional Notes: Core single-player gameplay can be played offline. Internet connection is required for the optional Alliance features.