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Lodestar
Lodestar sends you and your squad of friends on your own space odyssey. Traverse multiple planets in a journey to get home without losing yourself or your ship to the perils of the unknown! Solve puzzles, gather resources, mine asteroids, and survive... with your own oh-so welcoming AI sidekick!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“Very early access. Responsive dev team in discord. More of an authored experience than I've seen in a lot of these games - whether that's good or bad is up to you. Think designed levels, not procgen. Game systems somewhat cryptic & opaque - like ok mining go up - what does that…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Lodestar is everything that it promised to be in trailers and screenshots. It's a game that has clearly taken inspiration from successful predecessors, mashing together many features familiar to other titles without delving to deeply into any one of them. There's mechanics like…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Sorry - had to refund this. Put simply they are hitting the wrong price bracket for this game in its current state (note if it had only been around £10 I would have kept it in case it flourishes into something better). I know it's early access but what is there...just is not…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch 6.1.8 - Better Building on Controller, Menu Stuck Fixes
Patch 6.1.8 QoL: Build Menu is now bindable Copy Build is now bindable Building/Copying/Destroying with the controller should feel more natural Bugfixes: Fixed an issue where pressing escape too quick
Leaving Early Access!
Hey all, BlueFire here. Its launch time! I wanted to take the time to thank the over 1000 players who played during Early Access and provided feedback, bug reports, reviews, and their time. As a small
Patch 6.1.2 Planet 6, New Lore, New Multiplayer Tutorial, Controller Support
Patch 6.1.2 This patch is the candidate for leaving early access and completing our goals with the game. It brings us to the final boss planet and the inclusion of a lot more lore as well as the endin
Patch 5.1.55 - New Puzzles, Bosses Reworked, Visuals Polished
Gameplay: - Mining Vessel now has v7 of controls. Would love to get feedback. - Turtle has been reworked to be more clear and challenging - Tons of new puzzles on every planet with a new mechanic of r
Patch 5.0.57 - Path to Planet 6, Ship Teleporters, and Lore
We'll use this announcement to keep you updated as we approach patch 6.0.0. We want to be able to ship you improvements sooner so patch 6 will include all these notes but this is to help you understan
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Online Co-Op · Multiplayer · Puzzle · Exploration · Space Sim · 3D · Space · Sci-fi · Atmospheric · Action-Adventure · Adventure · Co-op (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Spanish - Latin America * , Turkish * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 10 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7, 64-bit or Newer Processor: Intel i5 6500 or Above (lower might works but we don't have an older processor) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 800 Series of above DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 15 GB available space Additional Notes: This should work at 30 FPS for 1080p.