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Star Ruler
Take command of a vast interstellar empire and safeguard your species from total extinction in a procedurally generated 3D galaxy (with the option to flatten it) from 1 System to 10,000+! Prove your species' ingenuity through a deep and intricate combat system where anything (from individual compone
View on Steam ↗ $7.99 (US · as of 2026-05-13)What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Better than Stellaris in that the "sky is the limit". No silly rules forcing you to be unable to do basic things unless you jump through hoops, or what those snowflake devs perceives as "tHaT wOuLd bE uNfAiR!" - at best, there's a setting to not allow attacking systems unless at…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs played“it's a fun game for what it is. it does have one drawback. it's very frustrating when your ships die immediately upon being built for no obvious reason, and it happens pretty frequently. you can spend hours trying to figure out what the problem is only to have it stop at what…”
— a player, Steam review · 92 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:26 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
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Star Ruler 2 Enters Early Access!
Hello everyone! Thank you all for your support of Star Ruler 1! Without you, we couldn't be here today to release its sequel. We've just released as an Early Access title, with a plan to have it finis
Star Ruler 2 Enters Early Access!
Hello everyone! Thank you all for your support of Star Ruler 1! Without you, we couldn't be here today to release its sequel. We've just released as an Early Access title, with a plan to have it finis
Star Ruler 2 Dev Blog #3: Faster Than Slow
One of the major differences going from Star Ruler to Star Ruler 2 is the addition of Faster-Than-Light travel. However, that doesn't mean that FTL is easy or cheap. Our most recent dev blog explores
Star Ruler 2 Dev Blog #3: Faster Than Slow
One of the major differences going from Star Ruler to Star Ruler 2 is the addition of Faster-Than-Light travel. However, that doesn't mean that FTL is easy or cheap. Our most recent dev blog explores
Dev Diary 2: Diplomacy
We've just posted our second Dev Diary about Star Ruler 2's development, this time about our new (and we feel innovative) diplomacy system. Check it out at Star Ruler 2's site .
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Indie · Space · 4X · RTS · Sci-fi · Grand Strategy · Great Soundtrack · Singleplayer · Multiplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://starruler.blind-mind.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP, Vista, 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz w/ SSE2 Support Memory: 256 MB Graphics: 1024x768 minimum resolution, 256 MB memory OpenGL: 2.1 Hard Drive: 300MB Sound: Any