- Stars End: A Frontier Nobody Has Tamed - 1 October 2026
A distant star system and whatever you manage to build before something finds you in it. Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox. Craft, build and fight your way through solo, or host your own server and make it somebody else's problem too. Stars End is on sale during the Steam Autumn Sale, October 1 to October 8.
- Stars End: 70% Off in the Steam Summer Sale! - 25 June 2026
Stars End is 70% off in the Steam Summer Sale, June 25 to July 9. Grab your copy and check out other great indie games on sale during the Summer Sale to add to your collection. https://store.steampowered.com/app/623340/
- Update 95 - Fixing & Polishing - 17 October 2023
Hey Everyone, We have a solid update 0.95 for you today, that should really help improve our players experience with Stars End. Over the past months we had a lot of new additions from interface, cross-platform play, steam deck support, server coding and so much more - so with our 95th update we took a step back and instead of adding new features we fully focused on fixing some of the new bugs that slipped into Stars End and polishing various areas of the game. Things like dropped missions, clan problems, disappearing base objects, unable to join co-op games and so much more have been fixed and fully tested. There are also a lot of other fixes and improvements across the board. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord. And with that said, lets take a closer…
- Update 94 - GUI Improvements - 7 September 2023
Hey Everyone, Today we have a smaller update 94 that includes a dozen bug fixes and GUI improvements. We worked on resolving various AI issues, bugs with interface and missing items, included some new translations and minor polish and balancing. This update also includes final work on GUI size and header texts, as well as reworks how notification are shown when players collect resources. We also worked on some server side codes and changed how server notifications are shown to online players. We`ll continue later this month week with a major update 95 that fixes last 3 remaining major bugs (very rare bug game breaking) - animal corpses disappearing, flying into the planets, and sometimes falling into the planet. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord.
- Update 93 - Improvements and Fixes - 26 July 2023
Hey Everyone, And we are back with update 93 as we continue with our new weekly update schedule. Today`s update fixes a lot of issues across the board as well as greatly improves in-game GUI. With over 30 bug fixes and improvements we focused on finishing work on GUI and control improvements. In addition TPS camera has gotten some much needed polish and the text presentation has been improved across the board. We`ll continue next week with a major update 94 that fixes last 3 remaining major bugs (very rare bug game breaking) - animal corpses disappearing, flying into the planets, and sometimes falling into the planet. In addition - we are expecting to fix a dozen of other remaining bugs. With these fixes out of the way we`ll be able to focus on improving presentation and starting on additional content later in August. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly bles…
- Update 92 - Server, MMO and GUI improvements - 20 July 2023
Hey Everyone, After a bit of a delay in June we are finally back with major update 92. This major update brings some much-needed improvements and fixes to server stability, migrating our server hardware to a much more powerful server. The MMO game sever has been fully cleaned up and is ready to welcome new players. In addition, we looked into fixes some of the remaining common bugs still effecting the play and completed last of the cross-platform projects as well as controller improvements. With this update out of the way - we will once again switch to releasing regular weekly and bi-weekly updates for the next foreseeable future. Looking forward to bringing you the 93rd update next week - our goal is to finally fix the rare yet deadly bugs with players character sometimes falling into the ground or player spaceship occasionally flying inside the planets. As always - thanks so much for…
- Update 91 - GUI, Controller & Steam Deck improvements - 31 May 2023
Hey Everyone, We have a solid update 0.91 today that adds a lot of polish and fine-tuning to playing Stars End on controllers and Steam Deck – we have greatly improved the key mapping, GUI scalability, added support for controller prompts and tooltips showing controller mapping and a lot of other polish across the board. In addition, this update includes a big improvement to how GUI displays text. It`s much larger and easier to read in most windows now. And special attention was giving to Tutorial objectives screen – improving formatting and readability. Our next update 0.92 is coming around mid June, it includes one more rewrite of the networking engine – boosting performance for everything, increasing server capacity, removing last of the network lag, increasing loading screens and so much more. This update will also bring some new game rules – like capturable territory producing reso…
- Update 90 - Major Milestone - Steam Deck, Controller & More - 16 May 2023
Hey Everyone, Today we are happy to bring you the major milestone update 0.90 – that greatly expands and streamlines the foundation of Stars End, completing foundation of the game and switch from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform experience. This 90th update completes cross-platform controller support with Stars End now playable on Steam Deck as well as Xbox/PlayStation and other controllers. In addition, we have added cross-platform capability - with players being able to use same MMO servers and play with other players - between Epic, Steam and other platforms. This opens up the door to launching the game on Epic in the near future, and consoles later this year. With this last big piece of the foundation out of the way we will be focusing our attention on fixing some remaining smaller bugs and improving the games visuals, as well streamlining the on-boarding gameplay. As alwa…
- Milestone Update 90 Incoming - available in Beta - 5 May 2023
Hey Everyone, After a bit of a delay we are finally getting ready to release the major milestone update 0.90. And this update is now available in Beta mode and should be fully released by next week. This milestone update greatly expands and streamlines the foundation of Stars End, going from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform experience with full controller support Stars End is now playable on Steam Deck as well as with Xbox/PlayStation and other controllers. In addition we added cross-platform capability so players are able to use same MMO servers and play with other players - between Epic, Steam and other platforms. With this last big piece of the foundation out of the way we will be focusing our attention on fixing some remaining smaller bugs and improving the games visuals, as well streamlining the on-boarding gameplay. We expect the update to go live early next week, and me…
- Update 89 - MMO mode LIVE! - 10 April 2023
Hey Everyone, We have a VERY exciting week ahead of us as we launch the 89th update and 0.90 milestone updates. These updates greatly expands and streamline the foundation of the game going from a server-based PC game to a cross-platform MMO experience (we are still fully supporting dedicated servers). This Monday we have launched two global MMO server one for PvE and one for PvP. Having redone out network to be nearly 5x more efficient, we can now support hundreds of players in one location on MMO servers. As part of adding MMO mode, we have migrated all players assets from all our previous 5 PvE servers to the new MMO server. To access your inventory from old PvE servers - simply login to MMO GLOBAL SERVER and visit "Items from all Servers" Bank Terminal - located at Cryo Ship, Orbital Station market or General Store in Clayton – Beta Prairie. Please keep in mind that if you had multi…
- Milestone Update Incoming & April Plans - 31 March 2023
Hey Everyone It`s been busy couple of weeks as we are getting ready to launch a number of major updates to Stars End in early April. Between the 88th and the 90th milestone update we`ll greatly expand and streamline the foundation of the game going from a server based PC game to a cross-platform MMO experience. Now lets go over some features of this upcoming updates: Upcoming Changes MMO approach MMO approach for official server – new online server can support up to 300 players online at once in one area (up from 50 before) All official servers are combined into one mega server - All players from all servers will keep all of their possessions - no progress lost or data wipe Total rework of the offline and online database code, making it several times more efficient – which allows us to link the servers together Cross-platform support Player playing Stars End on different platforms like…
- Update 87 - New Features and Fixes - 16 March 2023
Hey Everyone We have another big weekly update today as we continue to make solid progress with improving every area of the game. Today`s update 87 includes several dozen fixes and improvements across the board - from quality-of-life to bug fixes and animation improvements, as quite a few new features. We are hard at work on another major update due next week that adds full controllers and Steamdeck support, as well as option to cross-platform play the game on the same servers. Quick note to a few players effected by the rare Offline Singleplayer issues with claims being in space. We have added a solution for you here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/623340/discussions/0/3466101084947220406/ As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. And now lets take a look at what update 87 has in story: Planets now have background enviro…
- Update 86 - Major Improvements - 9 March 2023
Hey Everyone, We are excited to bring you a new major Update 86 today - that brings dozens of improvements and various new features, from expanding offline singlepayer to better performance and fixes to various issues reported by our players over the past week. One of the bigger changes is completely reworked info screen – that separates all player data like vehicles, claims and other stats in separate tabs. We have also increased the number of vehicles and claims that players can have in offline solo mode to 10 in each category We expect another update later this week with a lot of quality-of-life improvements, and next up we`ll will be looking into making the game more playable with controllers and Steamdeck. Quick note - there`s a very rare bug from last week effecting several players with their claims moving into space - we expect a fix for this within 24 hours. Only effects very sm…
- Update 85 - Another Performance Boost - 1 March 2023
Hey Everyone, We have another big update today – that greatly improves performance on all types of systems and makes the game playable well on 4k resolutions. In addition, this update includes a lot of fixes and polish across the board. We also reworked the system map - it now shows all player vehicles and claims across the start system. Now, lets take a closer look at what this 85th update has in store: Major visual performance improvements in all areas of the game Additional performance improvement when running the game in higher resolution – like 4k Additional performance improvements when playing the game on planets Major addition to system map – it now shows all player claims and vehicles on it across entire system Visual improvements to how sun and gas giant ring planet are visible from the planet surface Various minor visual improvements in space and on the planet surface Shorten…
- Foundation Complete & Update 84 - 27 February 2023
Hey Everyone, Today we hit a major milestone – Stars Ends foundation is fully complete, all game modes working well, all the base content in place and vast majority of bugs and issues have been ironed out. We are ready to welcome new players into the game world. With foundation finally complete we are very excited to enter next phase of post-launch development, with daily updates bringing new content, new vehicles, improving graphics and adding new gameplay mechanics like controlling capital ships and territorial warfare. To celebrate this milestone we are starting Stars End first launch sale with 30% off running for the next couple of weeks, if you were on the fence about joining us on this journey - this is a perfect chance to take the plunge. In addition we are wrapping up work on performance improvements on 4k, and better controller and Steamdeck support. Please note that we also mo…
- Update 83 - Performance Boost - 27 February 2023
Hey Everyone, We have another major update today. The focus of this update was performance, especially performance while flying in space. All in all you should find that the FPS has nearly doubled in a lot of scenarios and up to 4 times higher while flying in space. We have one more performance update in the works that should make the game also have butter smooth performance on higher 4k resolutions coming soon. In addition this update includes fixes to last few issues across the board that were reported over the past week. As always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. You can read the full patch notes on our Steam forums or Discord. Now, lets take a look at what this update has in store: Major improvement in performance across all environments 1080 performance improved from 40 average to 75 average 1080 performance while fly…
- Updates 81 & 82 - Follow-up fixes and Improvements - 24 February 2023
Hey Everyone, This weekended we had two follow-up updates that included a number of fixes for some bugs that were introduced in our 80th milestone update. The fixes include: server stability, fixing the global storage, disconnects from official servers and other various fixes and improvements across the board We have added also added a way to play the game completely offline – you need to start it from your library to get that option. Hey Everyone, Today we have a follow-up update that includes a number of fixes for some bugs that were introduced in our 80th milestone update. The fixes include: server stability, fixing the global storage, disconnects from official servers and other various fixes and improvements across the board We have added also added a way to play the game completely offline – you need to start it from your library to get that option. Please keep in mind that if you…
- Update 80 - Offline Solo Milestone Update - Live! - 24 February 2023
Hey Everyone, We are happy to bring you the 80th milestone update – now we can confidently say that all the games main features are complete and working well. With this foundation update out of the way we are returning to updating the game every couple of days – starting to roll-out new content, and final fixes and quality of life improvements. To go over the main feature of this milestone update: offline singleplayer with optional CoOp mode, hosting games doesn`t require MySQL installation, Italian and Spanish translations, performance improvements and fixes to the last two dozen know bugs. Full details are bellow. We have also updated all the game servers to the new format and naming. To locate your old server - just look for the number in the (), for example "Global 0 - PvE" that most of the players were playing on is now "Global Server 2 - (0)" Please keep in mind that with update t…
- Offline Solo available in Beta Phase - 22 February 2023
Hey Everyone, We are happy to say that the 80th milestone update is ready, and is now available for beta testing. All the features have been implemented, and we are just doing some final testing before we`ll bring this update live for everyone in a day or two. Beta Access To try the update, just Right click on Stars End in your library, select Properties, and then Beta and opt in there. We have one officials server running there as well, we copied our most popular Server 0 database there, so many of you can continue where you left of. And as always - thanks so much for everyone`s support - we are truly blessed to have such an amazing community. Now, let stake a look at what this milestone update has in store (please keep in mind it`s still in beta mode) Offline Singleplayer and removing MySQL requirements Singleplayer Offline mode added - play the game singleplayer and offline Option to…
- Milestone Update Incoming & February Plans - 7 February 2023
Hey Everyone, Updated as of 20th of February We should finally have a FULLY working beta version of this update released on 21st of February. Tons of new stuff, not just offline solo. Sorry for the lack of communication and updates from my side, we literally spent 2 weeks working on this day and night. With this update 80 finally getting release in 24 hours, we`ll be returning to updating Stars End every 2 days, finally adding the cool new content. It`s been a busy weekend, and today we are putting finishing touches on our 80th milestone update. Sorry it`s taken us a bit longer than anticipated, but we can`t wait to finally share is with you. We are starting to roll out this update using steam beta mode. However - if you don`t know your way around setting up mySQL (it will no longer require mySQL in about 48 hours) and want to wait until it`s all well and done - please allow us couple m…
