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Startopia
A once thriving network of space stations and planets have been left lifeless, redundant scars of the apocalypse. Into this age of darkness comes light. You will lead the way in rebuilding the network of space stations to a standard accepted by the individual alien races, attracting them to harness
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“One of my favorite games growing up Startopia still holds most of it's value even with how dated it is. It does scale to 1920x1080 (and possibly above) without having to do anything to the game which itself is a huge plus for an older game. Some of the menus/UI choices are…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Short Review Despite how the graphics will look they are just fine.You will end up spending most of your time at a view that the ol school graphics will not be a bother.A great deal of simulation mechanics involved that all work well with one another making for a fun and…”
— a player, Steam review · 69 hrs played“Would you like to manage a space station? Here's a game I played on disc back in the day, till the disc broke. It's that fun... You manage a space sation. Keep your workers happy. Keep you vistors happy. Keep the station clean. Fight other station owners. Grow goods to trade.…”
— a player, Steam review · 66 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players, self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 3 - 9th May 2021
What's New? - The game now renders aspect ratios other than 4:3. - Gem Slugs now animate in slug pods. - New bubble goo effect in slug pods. - New effect for scutters cleaning up junk. - New swing doo
Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 2 - 14th March 2021
Bugs Fixed - Fixed an issue where visitor stat notifications were being thrown up at the start of new games. - Fixed an issue where loading an autosave immediately triggered a fresh autosave. - Attemp
Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 1 - 28th February 2021
Beta 1 (1.01.1-b1) - 28th February 2021 ======================================= What's New The original 1.01 source code* compiled in VS2019 via the C++14 language standard. Ability to mouse click thr
Teeny tiny update - 28th February 2021
The smallest of updates: Updated the splash screen. Added MLP release notes file.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Simulation |
| Player tags | Simulation · Management · Strategy · Funny · Base-Building · Sci-fi · Comedy · City Builder · Space · Colony Sim · RTS · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7 Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor Memory: 512 MB RAM Graphics: 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 2 GB available space