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Starship EVO
Mine and craft your way to orbit, build your own starship and explore a vast, dangerous galaxy alongside your crew. For players who love a meaningful survival progression, a unique and elegant building system, and epic space-opera scale.
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Flexible ship building” (71 of 103 reviews) and “Active solo developer” (18); the most common complaint is “Frequent crashes and glitches” (28). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
71 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Considering that the dev team consists of 1 human and 0 AI, this is really impressive work so far. It's still really rough around the edges, particularly in the lack of good explanations for how to do various things…”
“The potential for this game is out of this world. The building mechanic is just so fun. And with how much this one man show developer team has accomplished, I'm here for the ride. Take your sweet time my friend, your…”
“I will shamefully admit to having bought and refunded this game a couple years ago. I really liked the general idea of the game, it just didn't have anything "to do"...at the time. Saw a Steam news blurb about the…”
18 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“The potential for this game is out of this world. The building mechanic is just so fun. And with how much this one man show developer team has accomplished, I'm here for the ride. Take your sweet time my friend, your…”
“I will shamefully admit to having bought and refunded this game a couple years ago. I really liked the general idea of the game, it just didn't have anything "to do"...at the time. Saw a Steam news blurb about the…”
“Really enjoying this work in progress so far, developer seems to be active with player base as bugs get sorted out and systems evolve. Lots of praise to the developer! I have 100's of hour in space engineers and this a…”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game isn't just a hidden treasure, it is one of the best space survival/building games that has ever been made and most people have no idea it even exists. I bought this game in 2021 when it was EXTREMELY cheap and…”
“It's basically a streamlined Space Engineers with actual content once you get to space with a very heavy enfasis on building beatuful ships. Still very much in Alpha, but enough content to last a while.”
“This is a great game if you don't mind a lot of bugs and restarting the game. There can be a ton of wonky things that happen or things not working properly but i can say ive definitely had a lot of fun. I can't wait to…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“If you've enjoyed Space Engineers, Empyrion or Scrap Mechanic then this is well worth giving a go. With the ability to stretch blocks to all sorts of shapes (you aren't restricted to certain slopes) as well as the decal…”
“Very cute and charming game, little rough around the edges as expected, but 100% worth supporting when on sale. The trailers and early dev logs hooked me, Ohio cuteness! 6.9/10”
“The game is extremely fun, even without all the features and development as other space games. the building is kind of intuitive, but it's also very easy to fix mistakes and improve on builds. The graphics aren't…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“love it. early access and playing a few hours a day. collect resources, build space worthy ship. mine asteroids, get hydrogen and travel to the next star system for more advanced materials. very fun and i can't wait for…”
“I always find ship building in these games really daunting, but you kinda NEED to do it so I just sucked it up and tried it. Ended up scrapping my first ship but once you spend a couple of hours (at least for me the…”
“This game is just really impressive for what it is. The progression is perfect, from building a ship with resources in the planet, to taking your ship to the asteroid belt, to making it to your first planet. It's buggy,…”
28 of the 103 reviews raise this · 23 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is a creative tool only at the moment, not ready for real gameplay. First off, Survival mode is in the game, but it lacks the one feature I expected most: Ship blueprint workshop integration. To be clear, you…”
“Way too many bugs, and usual unity blurriness. Way too easy to get stuck while mining or doing simple things.”
“Bug Report: CRITICAL DATA LOSS & INVENTORY CORRUPTION Short Description of the issue: Total erasure of a high-mass mobile base entity during a Shipyard save operation. This failure was preceded by severe Floating Point…”
16 of the 103 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“This game is a creative tool only at the moment, not ready for real gameplay. First off, Survival mode is in the game, but it lacks the one feature I expected most: Ship blueprint workshop integration. To be clear, you…”
“Well its unplayable for me. There is nothing anyplace on how to use or connect power. I built three wind turbines and a printer. Nothing in the help section or even easly found on line that I can find that tells you how…”
“Please DO NOT BUY if you expect a finished, polished product. This game is still in early alpha, and while it *is* playable to some extent, it is definitely unfinished with bugs and missing features everywhere. YOU HAVE…”
12 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Bought this game so my girlfriend and I could play it together. Only to learn 20 minutes in that the Multiplayer doesn't work. I'll give the game a shot once it's not false advertising on the steam page.”
“Can't recommend until the dev locks in and fixes multiplayer it's been broken for years.”
“A new game, it's still being fleshed out, and the multiplayer is still not working, but for what it is; it feels great to play. I hope the developer keeps updating and won't burn out.”
10 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“Considering that the dev team consists of 1 human and 0 AI, this is really impressive work so far. It's still really rough around the edges, particularly in the lack of good explanations for how to do various things…”
“Controls are a pain and instructions are barley clear and only the very basic stuff if told to you. Wouldn't recommend”
“Bug Report: CRITICAL DATA LOSS & INVENTORY CORRUPTION Short Description of the issue: Total erasure of a high-mass mobile base entity during a Shipyard save operation. This failure was preceded by severe Floating Point…”
8 of the 103 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“Bug Report: CRITICAL DATA LOSS & INVENTORY CORRUPTION Short Description of the issue: Total erasure of a high-mass mobile base entity during a Shipyard save operation. This failure was preceded by severe Floating Point…”
“I hope to come back around to this at some point and change my review, but as it stands, this is not a very good survival/crafting game. There's definitely some cool things here in regards to how the command logic and…”
“Patience is a Virtue! As of now I see this game as more of an investment rather than a purchase because it will probably take a long time for the actual "game" portion to be more complete. There aren't many long-term…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 83.2% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Don't listen to the negative comments, if you're looking for a true guide to what Starship Evo is as a game, here it is. This game is outstandingly impressive for one that's developed primarily by a single guy. Compared to modern games, it's $32.50 pricetag (In CDN at least) is…”
— a player, Steam review · 38 hrs played“Id say it has impressive voxel technology, rendering distance, it is a great building game. If you are looking to toss out Space Engineers I'd say it's almost time. If you want multiplayer or survival I would wait. But if you want to explore, build, fight, and such in creative,…”
— a player, Steam review · 95 hrs played“I’m walking away after 32 hours. Coming from 700+ hours in Stormworks, I loved how stable and smooth Starship EVO feels compared to the mess that was Space Engineers 1. It’s a clean game with a great vision. The Problem: > The game is a "Refit Specialist's" nightmare. If you…”
— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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[DEFAULT] 26w44a/42abc/41a: Research Station, Crusher and drill
This build a few important additions to the early game with Research, alongside the drill and crusher block. Common feedback after the survival release was players wanting to be rewarded for mining an
[EXPERIMENTAL] 26w42c: Conveyor Tube adapter
This build adds conveyor tube adapters. Fixes Mining research is now Tier 2 pipe adapter can be researched Thanks for playing!
[EXPERIMENTAL] 26w42b: More Hotfixes
Some more research/crusher hotfixes and improvements, plus an old requested: pipe adaptors! Added expanding and reducing pipe adaptors for connecting different pipe sizes. Mining drills can now harves
[EXPERIMENTAL] 26w42a: Research Hotfixes
Some fixes following the research update. Community Suggestion: #8043 Research stations can automatically pull damaged bricks from connected storage units. #8052 Docked and landed ships no longer appe
[EXPERIMENTAL] 26w41a: Research Station, Crusher and drill
This build a few important additions to the early game with Research, alongside the drill and crusher block. Common feedback after the survival release was players wanting to be rewarded for mining an
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access |
| Player tags | Action · Indie · Simulation · Adventure · Building · Space · Sandbox · Sci-fi · Early Access · Open World · Voxel · Space Sim (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Japanese * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese * * |
| Achievements | 63 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Microsoft Windows 10 (latest SP) 64-bit Processor: Intel i5 @ 3.0 GHz or higher (or AMD equivalent) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 3GB, AMD RX 470 4GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 4 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board