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Star Crafter
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Such a simple game with a straight-forward premise - you craft. You gather materials, and you craft and you make micro-planets, which lets you gather more stuff and...craft more stuff. That's it. And I love it for being that simple. It's like Satisfactory only tiny. Your only…”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“Pretty good; nice progression; build new planets; gather various resources across the solar system”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“I really wanted to like this game as it's been on my list since I played the demo months ago. I was willing to put up with a certain amount of bugginess as it's got a smaller developer feel to it. It's certainly has a prettiness to it even though it's fairly simple. The digging…”
— 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 2026-09-26.
Latest official news
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Hotfix October 9th
Fixed an issue caused by the 1.0 update that some new saves or planets might not save first-time terrain edits. I'm really praying I didn't break anything else when fixing this. Should be good but let
1.0 Release & New Stars Update (Out of Early Access!)
1.0 release is here! The game is now out of Early Access! New Stars End Game Update: New: - Star Creation Rocket - Random Planet Creation Rocket - 4 Space Station Platforms - Craftable Spaceship Warpi
Beta branch updates are now on the default branch
Beta branch updates are now on the default branch as a preparation for the full release.
1.0 Is Coming This Week (Friday, September 26th)
Hello, Star Crafter will be exiting Early Access this week on Friday, September 26th. (12 AM Central Time / 6 PM UK time) The Early Access launch will bring the new stars end game update to the main b
Star Crafter is Exiting Early Access Soon!
Hello, Star Crafter will be exiting Early Access in about a month (exact date not decided yet). The Early Access launch will bring the new stars end game update to the main branch (it's available on t
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Early Access · Open World Survival Craft · Crafting · Base-Building · Mining · Adventure · Resource Management · Space · Exploration · Simulation · Automation · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Achievements | 5 |
| Official site | https://www.tbjbu2.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10+ Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050-TI or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Storage: 10 GB available space