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Star Horizon

Star Horizon

Experience fast action, thrilling levels, spectacular explosions and lots of pew-pew-pew. Star Horizon is a reboot for the on-rails space shooter genre.

Released May 28, 2015 Developer Orbital Knight Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux IndieActionSimulationAdventureSpace
View on Steam ↗ $6.99 (US · as of 2026-09-28)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

60.4%positive149 reviews
Recommended · 19 found this helpful

“Overally good game, aiming system is a little bit strange at the beggining but when you get used to it, you can have a lot of fun playing this title. Some of the dialogs are kind of annoying and too long, but gameplay and visuals compensate that. What I really like is the speed…”

— a player, Steam review · 60 hrs played
Recommended · 28 found this helpful

“This is a very Starfox / Panzers Dragoon style game. Enjoyable game play. Great graphics. Some audio that repeats saying could be lessened in frequency, but that's not a game breaking issue. I would recommend this game.”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
Not recommended · 39 found this helpful

“It's like the Kobayashi Maru test, but instead of testing my character, its testing my patience. ..In seriousness though, I liked the concept of the game, which is why I personally bought it on the first day of release, but the devs need to get a better auto-aiming system; for…”

— a player, Steam review · 5 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 2026-09-28.

29achievements
13.6%median completion
3.2%rarest: Legend
42.6% of players 39.4% of players 33.6% of players 30.0% of players 24.9% of players 23.0% of players 21.5% of players 21.2% of players 21.1% of players 20.0% of players 17.6% of players 15.4% of players 15.1% of players 14.0% of players 13.6% of players 12.5% of players 12.0% of players 11.8% of players 11.6% of players 11.3% of players 11.2% of players 9.6% of players 9.6% of players 8.5% of players 6.9% of players 6.9% of players 6.8% of players 5.3% of players 3.2% of players 42.6% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
42.6%BFs 4 3V3R! — Decide your fate
39.4%Final battle — Complete level 1
33.6%Corporal — Destroy at least 200 enemy ships
Rarest badges of honor
3.2%Legend — Complete the game on Hard difficulty level
5.3%Champion — Complete the game on normal difficulty level
6.8%Newbie — Complete the game on easy difficulty level

Latest official news

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

Nov 30, 2016
New update is now live!

Hello! We just released an update for Star Horizon that contains: - long awaited aiming reticule (yay! \o/) - new hangar and level select ui's in the menu - updated shaders and textures for the mother

Nov 30, 2016
New update is now live!

Hello! We just released an update for Star Horizon that contains: - long awaited aiming reticule (yay! \o/) - new hangar and level select ui's in the menu - updated shaders and textures for the mother

Jun 15, 2015
Star Horizon - Gamepad issues fix

Hello! We just released a fix that's addressing gamepad issues on Mac and Linux. - fixed gamepad mapping for Mac and Linux - fixed some inconsistencies when displaying icons for gamepad and keyboard/m

Jun 15, 2015
Star Horizon - Gamepad issues fix

Hello! We just released a fix that's addressing gamepad issues on Mac and Linux. - fixed gamepad mapping for Mac and Linux - fixed some inconsistencies when displaying icons for gamepad and keyboard/m

Jun 02, 2015
Star Horizon - Official Soundtrack

Star Horizon Official Soundtrack is now available for download as a DLC. Here's a list of tracks included in the package: Menu Theme Final Battle SNAFU Surpise Surprise 7th Heaven Almost there Battle

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresAction, Adventure, Indie, Simulation
Player tagsIndie · Action · Simulation · Adventure · Space · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · RPG · Futuristic · Space Sim · Exploration · Survival (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Stats · Commentary available
LanguagesEnglish * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese *
ControllerFull support
Achievements29
Official sitehttps://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/star-horizon-switch/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP SP3 and later Processor: Dual Core 2.4 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Shader Model 3.0, 256MB DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 1700 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible