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Starmancer

From a small 2-man team comes a unique space station management sim. Take on the role of an A.I commanding a lost space ark. Try not to let your crew run amok and wreck the place.

Indie Pixel Graphics Sandbox Management Atmospheric
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Humanity launches the Starmancer Initiative – in a desperate attempt to escape from a dying home planet and seek refuge among the stars.
Millions of people upload their consciousness into your memory banks – entrusting their minds and their future to an Artificial Intelligence, a Starmancer. To you.

Now – you find yourself alone and stranded in a strange star system, your task as a Starmancer is to construct and manage a space station capable of sustaining human life.
Starmancer offers gameplay with consequences in a living sandbox environment as you warp from star to star, scavenging resources from derelict stations while fending off space monsters, zombies and pirates!

There are many ways to manage your space station — Don’t be afraid to experiment with unconventional or morally questionable strategies..


  • Sustain Life - Cater to the needs of your colonist, by building farms for food, providing beds for rest and bathrooms to prevent unsanitary accidents.
  • Express Yourself - Customize your station with walling, floors, furniture, and collect unique decorations. Place cheerful paintings to remind the colonists how friendly and relatable you are, and motivational posters to let them know just how much you value their productivity.
  • Power, Water, and Atmosphere - Build treadmills and batteries to provide power to your machines. Hook them up to the grid with wires!
    Place pipes and water purifiers to provide clean water for your farms and oxygen creators.
    Airlocks can be used to separate the atmosphere of two rooms, while wall vents do the opposite.



    • Grow Colonists - Colonists are grown in your core’s incubator. Pick and choose from a virtually endless supply of different minds, stored in your data banks.
      If they should meet a tragic end, you can always harvest their head and regrow them.
    • Unique Colonists - Unique Personalities – Colonists have random starting skills, personality perks and job preferences that makes them uniquely suited to different roles.
      A colonist with Morbid Curiosity makes an excellent doctor to clean up violent mishaps.
    • Jobs - Assign tasks like farming, mining, and security. Each with an associated skill.
      Watch as your rookie explorer levels up and becomes a deadly pirate killing machine.
    • Skills - Colonists have skills like strength, health, researching, and speed. As your colonists perform these tasks, they get better and better. Colonists with high strength skill can defeat monsters in a single punch (they can also drag unconscious colonists)!
    • Memories - Colonists remember the good (and bad) things that happen to them.
      Ensure their needs are met, and keep traumatic incidents to a minimum.
      Unhappy colonists will eventually snap and freak out, and can develop crazy personality traits after having snapped one time too many.

    Beyond your station’s borders lies the vast darkness of space—filled with wildlife, abandoned stations, and rare loot!

    • Draft - Draft and send your bravest colonists out into the wilderness to defeat hostile wildlife — creating a safe environment for your gentler colonists to harvest resources and bring back all the precious loot!
    • Hostile Wildlife - Slimes, space zombies, and malfunctioning robots are just a few of the enemies inhabiting the nearby asteroids and derelict stations.
      Equip your colonists with medkits and weapons to give them a fighting chance!
    • Relics - Special items with unique properties. An ordinary pen that erases all memories. An encyclopedia that increases all experience earned. C4 for blowing up monsters and clearing paths in stations.
    • Derelict Stations - A Medilab where you can find medkits and antivirals. A waste station to scavenge for scrap. An asteroid mining outpost with sulfur veins. Explore them all. Collect their cosmetic objects like sewage pools and morgue drawers. Your crew can even live in the abandoned stations!
    • Procedurally Generated - he asteroids and stations beyond your borders are generated every time you warp to a new star system, but the resources, wildlife, and stations are consistent in a star biome. This helps you find basic resources, but you’ll never know exactly what to expect when you arrive in a new system.

      Key Features

      • Build a thriving space station, with tons of customization.
      • Manage the lives of colonists aboard your station.
      • Explore and loot derelict stations, avoiding traps and fighting monsters.
      • Tinker with the sandbox using cheats: spawn monsters, build instantly, give yourself all the money, and more.
      • Modding support
      • Active Development — Check out our weekly developer stream!

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Patch 0.4.0: NPC Villagers, Random Events, and Performance Improvements Patch 0.3.1 - The Sounds of the Void Patch 0.3.0: The Pirate Incursion Update
System requirements Windows · macOS · Linux

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7, 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0 ghz DualCore CPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible GPU
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Windows 10, 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0+ ghz QuadCore CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Minimum:
  • OS: MacOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Processor: 2.0 ghz DualCore CPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: MacOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Processor: 2.0+ ghz QuadCore CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0 ghz DualCore CPU
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

Recommended

Recommended:
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 64-bit
  • Processor: 2.0+ ghz QuadCore CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Chucklefish
Brazilian rating
12
Steam Germany rating
16
Content warning
Contains cartoon blood and gore. Sometimes colonists get eaten by zombies. People get mad and fight each other to the death. Once in a while they get infected by alien parasites and explode.
Features
Single-player, Family Sharing
Languages
English
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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Valve compatibility test
The on-screen keyboard may need to be opened manually.
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (1)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesNoNo
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Value Score

Fair Value — 37th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 37th percentile. Priced as Market at $14.99.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 71%
Value Ratio Top 63%

Early Access Abandoned

Time in EA
266 days
Updates
10
Current Players
1

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Starmancer worth buying right now?
Wait — $14.99. Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
When does Starmancer go on sale?
Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
Is Starmancer free to play?
Starmancer costs $14.99 on Steam.
What genre is Starmancer?
Starmancer is a Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access game.
Who developed Starmancer?
Starmancer was developed by Ominux Games and published by Chucklefish.
What platforms does Starmancer support?
Available on Steam for Windows, macOS, Linux.

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