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Starvester
A short incremental game about expanding a star-system wide factory to build giant megastructures in space. Deploy swarms of drones, mine resources, unlock upgrades and harvest the power of the stars!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“its good most of the reviews that make it mixed are from people complaining about late game balance...tbh been exactly a month guys...he's a solo dev let him polish it ok just give it a try and don't go in saying oh its mixed reviews its a bad game its just a bad time i did it…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I stumbled upon this game completely by accident and ended up getting stuck in it for several days. The best part is that it is essentially an idle simulator, meaning you can safely leave it running, forget about it for a while, and then come back later to collect your…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Time to chime in here after waiting patiently for some bug fixes. 1st its bad the dev is radio silent about anything. No communication, no nothing. 2nd - The demo was decent, no game breaker bugs to worry about. 3rd - Launch day and the bugs started appearing in the game where…”
— a player, Steam review · 57 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. 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 (2026-09-25). 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.
v1.0.6 update
Hey everyone, Thanks for the support and the feedback since the last update! I've just set another update with version v1.0.6 live now with the following changes and fixes: \ Hephaestus resource gen f
v1.0.5 update
Hey everyone, Thank you so much for your patience while I put out fixes and updates for the game! If you've played the game, you might've encountered a bug that causes deployed drones to not load in w
v1.0.4 update
Hey everyone! Thank you for your patience while I roll out the updates with the requested fixes and changes! The most requested feedback so far has been about: bug fixes, reducing idling time and givi
v1.0.3 hotfix
Hey everyone! Hope you're all having a relaxing time playing the game this weekend! While I take a bit of a breather, I've gone ahead and pushed update v1.0.3 with the following changes: \ wrong icon
windowed-mode hotfix
Hey everyone! For those of you who were experiencing the issue with windowed mode where it auto-centers after the last update, this should now hopefully be fixed with the latest v1.0.2 update. Thank y
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Incremental · Idler · Automation · Strategy · Resource Management · Casual · Mining · Simulation · Building · Economy · Management · Relaxing (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Custom Volume Controls · #category_playable_at_your_own_pace · Playable without Timed Input · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese |
| Achievements | 28 |
| Official site | https://www.syphono4.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or higher Processor: 2 Ghz Memory: 1 GB RAM Storage: 100 MB available space