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Stardeus
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Ahh yes, this is the one I've been looking for and didn't even know it. The Rim World influence caught me first, and having the DLC for Rim World that allows you to build a space craft (be it ever so tedious a process) I thought this would be interesting spin. I bought it on…”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played“My first thought when I randomly saw the game on Youtube: Wait, is this a modded Rimworld? :D Turns out, this is the game that I wanted to play for a long time. You're an AI of the ship and live in its server room. You can build the ship any way you want, mine, trade and refine…”
— a player, Steam review · 202 hrs played“Ive enjoyed the game and have been playing it on and off for the last few years, it runs nice and smooth, the ftl change is alright but i find the late game to be a bit repetitive and to me at least feels annoying at parts especially some parts of late researching”
— a player, Steam review · 137 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:36 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
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 Stardeus UI: Behind the Scenes
Hey everyone!I wanted to reveal a bit of history and reasoning behind the new UI update. This was the 7th iteration of the UI. The first 6 are briefly documented in the art book (The Journey DLC), whi
The new UI is ready for public testing!
What's up, everyone! Work on the new major update is finally entering the final phase, and this is where we need your help! Like with all previous major updates, brave explorers are welcome to try it
UI Rework screenshots (LEAKED)
So, we've heard a lot of feedback when it comes to the new UI!Mostly it's been about people being afraid it will be less complicated than the old UI, taking away some of Stardeus charm… We hear your w
Yes, we're reworking the UI
As you might or might not know - we're reworking the UI. You probably have a lot of questions... So did I... however, I got the chance to sit down with spajus and ask him some questions about this so
Stardeus "Story & Drama" Major Update Is Now LIVE
Greetings, Space Travelers! Get ready for the next level of immersion: the new Story and Drama (v0.14) major update has just dropped, and it will have as much if not more impact on gameplay as the mas
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Exploration · Colony Sim · Base-Building · Survival · Strategy · Space · Sci-fi · Resource Management · Crafting · Singleplayer · Open World (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Remote Play on TV · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Czech, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Ukrainian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Korean, Italian, Hungarian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 30 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://stardeusgame.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support, ARM64 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 capable GPUs with Compute Shader support Storage: 1 GB available space