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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.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“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“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“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 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.
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
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
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
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
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.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation |
| Player tags | Indie · Action · Simulation · Adventure · Space · Sci-fi · Singleplayer · RPG · Futuristic · Space Sim · Exploration · Survival (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Captions available · Steam Cloud · Stats · Commentary available |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 29 |
| Official site | https://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