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Starlathe
Command your ship and fleet in a galaxy that truly lives: 150 sectors where six factions mine, haul, trade, build and wage war whether you're there or not. Trade it, rob it, defend it — or forge your own fleet and carve out your place in it.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-11 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-02.
“I'm giving a cautious thumbs up because I know how badly negative reviews can hurt the development of games like these. It's in a very early state and there's a lot of yankiness, annoyances which gives the current experience a rather shallow "so many things yet none seem to…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“huge potential. i hope the dev or dev team can and will update frequently and not let it fade into nothing. good luck on the game”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“Great game. Living Solar Economy (with living factions) similar to X4 Foundations. Simple gameplay and graphics similar to space impossible or many others. The game has fleet management (with independent commands you can issue to your Officers), skill progression tree, crafting,…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 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 2026-10-20.
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Latest official news
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Supporter Pack Is Out: 16 Cosmetic Skins for Your Ships, Stations and Portrait
The Supporter Pack is out now on Steam! Starlathe is made by just me. If you've enjoyed flying, trading and building out there and want to help me keep the updates coming, this pack is a way to do tha
Patch 0.3.1: Civilians, Mercenaries and Turrets
Thanks for all the feedback and support! if your request, suggestion, bug report isn't listed they are carried over to the next update! NEW Civilian ships now roam the galaxy. They are ordinary people
Moving to Weekly Updates - A New Update Every Saturday
Hello everyone, From now on I'm moving from daily updates to one update every week. As many of you know, I've released an update almost every day for the last 17 days. I work on Starlathe alone, and t
Update 0.3.0: Fleet Loadouts, Crew Presets and Map Objectives
Thanks for all the feedback and support! if your request, suggestion, bug report isn't listed they are carried over to the next update! NEW Fleet > Loadouts: every fleet ship's fitted gear in one list
Update 0.2.9: Defend Orders, Vigil Patrols and Overcharge Warp
Thanks for all the feedback and support! if your request, suggestion, bug report isn't listed they are carried over to the next update! NEW Defend order for Commanders: give a Commander "Defend" from
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-10-02.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Space Sim · Sandbox · Open World · Trading · Economy · Action · Simulation · Exploration · Building · Crafting · Management · Mining (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Adjustable Difficulty · Playable without Timed Input · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Thai, Sorani, French, Italian, Arabic, Korean, Polish, Turkish |
| Achievements | 42 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Quad-core 3.0 GHz (4 threads) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Any DirectX 11 capable GPU (integrated graphics OK) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 6 GB available space