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6 user reviews — 67% positive (6 reviews) · 46 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Expand your own galactic empire across new stars, research technologies, and challenge great alien powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy game. Build interstellar colonies, and starbases to gather more resources. Explore a unique galaxy full of secrets, great perils, and limitless possibilities.
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Action, Indie, Simulation, Strategy · 2026 · More £15 - £30 games
Command expanding colonies and starbases across a vast, unique galaxy filled with secrets and alien threats. Research technologies and challenge great powers in this immersive 4X grand strategy experience.
About this game
New Stars is a 4X strategy game, on a galactic scale. Explore new worlds, build mega-structures, and found prosperous interstellar colonies. Go head-to-head with alien empires and build the greatest empire to survive the test of time, or be the last remaining in the galaxy to succeed.
Customize your empire from world preferences, eight different ideologies with their own bonuses, hundreds of empire icons and more. Customize a unique galaxy based on your preferences. There are five different galaxy sizes to choose from.
Unique empires, species, and clans exist within a customizable and procedurally generated galaxy with limitless possibilities, and thousands of unique planets, stars and worlds. Some planets have valuable resources that can be collected.
Explore star systems and discover new secrets of the galaxy, and find clues to your lost home. Discoveries such as white dwarfs, ancient ruins, lost ships, and much more can be found within the abyss. Some planets have hidden features that increase their value.
Expand your empire across new stars to new frontiers, and build strong colonies that will power your galactic economy. Collect natural resources from planets and stars using starhubs. Beware of pesky space pirates that may plunder your resources for their own gain.
Merge ships into one fleet, and combine them against your adversaries. Defend against attacks by upgrading starbases, or fortifying your colonies. Research new ship types or advanced military capabilities to get an edge over your alien foes.
Declare wars, trade resources, make agreements, declare friendships, share intel, forge galactic unions, and much more. Some empires may be openly hostile or require appeasing, others may be cooperative, and some may be integrated into your empire.
Construct military starship presets with unique turrets. Unlock larger ships and more powerful turrets to allow your empire to get an edge in interstellar warfare.
There is much to do in New Stars and you choose how to play.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7x64 / Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64 / Windows 11x64
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or greater
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB AMD 7970 or GTX 1050 or greater
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device
- Additional Notes: Starting a game may take a while to load on lower-end GPUs as the game is texture heavy.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7x64 / Windows 8.1x64 / Windows 10x64 / Windows 11x64
- Processor: Intel Core i7-6800K or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X or greater
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: 2GB AMD 7970 or GTX 1050 or greater
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 10 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Device
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
v4 Archetype - Workshop Update, Old Stars
Workshop Support - Final Content Update New Stars now supports Steam Workshop. Icons, portraits, empire and map presets, and events are all moddable. Subscribe to anything in the Workshop and it loads automatically, no setup required. Browse mods: Workshop Hub Make mods: Modding Wiki This is the final content update for New Stars. The game stays available and I'll keep fixing anything game-breaking, but development effort now moves to my next project. Thank you to everyone who played and reported bugs as it genuinely shaped the game. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43312936/a0bc6e3ccd0f61b8006b6993598ef123f3be0285.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43312936/ea35d65ef91bcb913f35c48e4fe9259001c17a89.png What's Next: Old Stars https://store.steampowered.com/app/4910320/Old_Stars Old Stars is a new game - a fast-paced 4X space strategy game where you get the scope of an empire in the length of an evening. If the name sounds like a prequel, that's the idea: Old Stars is the game New Stars always aspired to become but never could, rebuilt with a clear identity of its own. The UI, combat system, and star systems are already rewritten from the ground up. New Stars players who want to help playtest can get a free closed-beta key - just ask. Playtesters that go above and beyond in feedback can receive the full game for free. Questions welcome, and a wishlist helps a lot.Read full article on Community Announcements (adamjr)AnnouncementsOfficial
3.1.0 Continuity - macOS Support + Wiki + Improvements
This update introduces macOS support alongside stability and usability improvements, plus a few requested gameplay options and fixes. Mac support! Added Mac support to the game {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43312936/ad5dedd6b47480788ad79683feb5ddca3070cab5.png The Wiki is back! wiki.newstarsgame.com - Community wiki is now live again with updated information and guides. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43312936/e3a5b370bcda0fea8e864ce8d4e61897219287d2.png In-game changes: Custom empires spawn in always - option added Added an option to control whether custom empires always appear in new games. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43312936/4c7b18211ed9ad21610e75d4536404abf835ad39.png UI - Consistent tooltip scaling Fixed an issue where tooltips did not scale correctly at 4k resolution (i.e. on macOS). Stability - Loading is more deterministic Improved initialization flow to make loading and game setup more consistent across sessions. This update focuses on improving platform support and overall stability while restoring key community resources. More content-focused updates will follow. Note: On first launch, macOS may display a security prompt due to the game not yet being notarized. If this happens, use right-click → Open.Read full article on Community Announcements (adamjr)Patch NotesOfficial
3.0.4
Improved Background stars appear less distorted on the gold galaxy Tweaked Custom preset empires now have a 10% chance of spawning, instead of 5% Fixed Custom preset empires didn't spawn in the game Gold galaxy was always being auto-selected first when customising map settings Sometimes hyperlanes didn't generate properly on huge galaxiesRead full article on Community Announcements (adamjr)Patch NotesOfficial
3.0.3
Fixed Clicking fast enough sometimes gave player negative resources when building fleets After updating relations with a player, it did not update contacts panel until the next month passed Leaderboard was not opened via keyboard bindingRead full article on Community Announcements (adamjr)Patch NotesOfficial
3.0.2
Note: Sometimes patches are huge, even when little was changed. Improved: Load menu now sorts saves by the time they were last loaded Export resource orders now display in star system HUD Fixed: After loading save: Existing build queues on planets disappeared. Sometimes visual artifacts from map view appeared in star system viewRead full article on Community Announcements (adamjr)
