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StarMade
The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Unfinished as of yet but a lot of fun to build and play around with.”
— a player, Steam review · 279 hrs played“Extremely in depth, more so than it looks. When you learn the game it gets very addicting.”
— a player, Steam review · 297 hrs played“Starmade is a free game (direct from star-made.org) that you can purchase on Steam for $14.99. It has simple yet deep systems that build upon each other in the process of building the perfect star station, capitol ship, or mining vessel. These systems drastically change and make…”
— a player, Steam review · 304 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:47 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
StarMade v0.304.4 - Misc. AI Improvements
This is a smaller, focused update that overhauls how you command your ships' AI and fleets, adds creative-mode server options, and fixes a number of outstanding bugs. It builds directly on the previou
StarMade v0.303.38 - Up to Speed
This update introduces significant performance improvements in most areas of the game, as well as bumps the game from Java 7 all the way up to Java 21. Java 21 Migration The game now builds and runs u
StarMade Launcher v4 Beta
StarMade Launcher v4 Beta Greetings Citizens, In preparation for the next release update coming in the following days, we are putting out a beta for the new StarMade Launcher v4. This new launcher is
StarMade 0.204.703 - Build Tools Overhaul
This update introduces a complete overhaul of the build tools, designed for versatility and usability. It also addresses some bugs and performance concerns. Note: There may be some rendering issues wi
StarMade Update
BlockTypes.properties , BlockConfig.xml , blockBehaviorConfig.xml , and factionConfig.xml files have all been significantly changed in this update, so any servers / mods that modify or rely on these f
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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 | Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Space · Sandbox · Open World · Multiplayer · Building · Sci-fi · Voxel · Adventure · Indie · Action · Crafting · Simulation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.star-made.org |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 - 64 bit Processor: Intel Core i3 (2nd Generation and above) | AMD FX 6xxx or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260, 275, 280, 460 SE, 550 Ti | AMD Radeon HD 4870, 5770, 4890, 5830, 6770, 6790 or equivalent with OpenGL 2.1 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 3 GB available space Additional Notes: 2GB of memory must be available for StarMade. Lower specs may work by modifying graphics and other performance options. Try out our demo to get an indication for your system. System components such as Integrated Graphics cards may not be supp