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Variable State, POLARIS™ Team · Published by Variable State · Official site ↗
Content notice: Guerilla fighting that includes weapons, vehicles of war, and environmental destruction.
Mixed — 56% positive (79 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Team up and take flight in this sci-fi co-op shooter with fully destructible environments. Soar through dynamic open levels using powerful abilities, master advanced weapons and vehicles, and lay waste to the armies of a hostile colonizing threat - defend your home worlds!
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Action, Adventure · 2025 · More £15 - £30 games
Team up and soar through dynamic open levels in POLARIS™, a 2025 action-adventure game from Variable State. Master advanced weapons and vehicles to defend your home worlds against hostile forces.
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About the Game
Skylancer: Our planets have been overtaken by the Regime. Join us and together we will shatter the yoke of their oppression.
COOPERATIVE PVE EXTRACTION
Take flight with up to 3 other players for 4 player team-oriented gameplay, focused around guerilla warfare against the Regime.
It's your team vs the environment. Get in, wage a guerrilla war of resistance, and destroy as much enemy infrastructure as you can on the way out!
A PLAYGROUND OF DESTRUCTION
Battle through completely destructible cityscapes. Smash, destroy, and otherwise tear down the Regime's infrastructure of oppression over the course of every match. Each session is unique, with a reactive and ever-evolving combat environment.
Carve doorways out of walls, tunnel through terrain, and unleash an arsenal of destruction!
TURN THE TOOLS OF YOUR ENEMY AGAINST THEM
Assume the mantle of Skylancer and reclaim the birthright of your ancestors. Fly, extract, and resist the Regime's war of conquest!
COMMUNITY-FOCUSED DEVELOPMENT
We're a small and scrappy team of 11 people, aided by the tools and technologies of Unreal Engine 5.
We're excited about the game we've built with Polaris, and wholeheartedly invite our community to share feedback.
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FAQ
Will Polaris be a live service title?
No, Polaris will offer a complete experience at launch. That said, if big AAA studios don't get everything right day one, our little team certainly won't, so we'll no doubt be making bug fixes and balancing changes after release, and we'll take that responsibility seriously. If people dig what we've made and would like more, we'll definitely consider it, so long as we won't bankrupt ourselves in the process. But I don't want to sell people something which is incomplete, half-finished, or where we're pitching as-yet-unrealised potential. We just want to make a cool game, and we hope it looks cool to you, too!
What operating systems will Polaris be compatible with?
At launch we'll support Windows PC only, with the possibility of Steam Deck support at a later point.
Will this be an Early Access title?
No, Polaris will launch in full when released.
What's the inspiration behind making Polaris?
It's Jonathan the creative director writing this (hi there!). I can't speak for everyone on the team, so I'll answer just for me... I've kind of always wanted to work on a game like this. I grew up loving the games of Bullfrog and Psygnosis, in particular Syndicate, Wipeout, G-Police, and Colony Wars. So experiences involving "teams of high tech soldiers, using high tech vehicles, causing chaos in an original science fiction world" have always been embedded deep in my frontal lobe. Over the years I've fallen in love with games like Halo, Earth Defence Force, Red Faction, Just Cause, Crimson Skies, and Ace Combat. Polaris is a melting pot of all these inspirations (and more!) combined with the raw talent and creativity of the awesome team I get to work with everyday. Also they turned off the Warhawk servers so this is the only way I get to fulfil that particular gameplay fantasy.
What's the best way to stay up-to-date on development?
Via our newsletter. Please sign up via the link on the Steam page!
What's the best way to give feedback?
Please join our Discord, become a member of our dedicated Reddit page, or join the conversation in the Steam discussion forums.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Recommended
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 6600XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD Recommended
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AnnouncementsOfficial
'BAFTA Games in Concert' featuring music by Variable State
Experience your favourite game soundtracks performed live by the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Voices and composer and conductor Austin Wintory, in the official performance of nominated and award-winning music from 20 years of the BAFTA Games Awards, synchronised live with dynamic visuals, gameplay and imagery.Featuring exclusive suites from iconic games titles including:🎮 Virginia by Variable State🎮 Helldivers 2 by Arrowhead Game Studios🎮 Tomb Raider: Legend by Crystal Dynamics🎮 Fallout 4 by Bethesda Game Studios🎮 Baldur’s Gate 3 by Larian StudiosAnd many more!BAFTA-winning band Sea Power will join the performance, with further special guests to be announced on the night.Strap in for a gaming experience like no other! World Premiere on 31 January at Royal Festival Hall, London. Tickets available now via: www.liveconcert.gamesRead full article on Community Announcements (Jonathan Burroughs)Patch NotesOfficial
POLARIS™ - Major Update - 'Skyborn Echelon'
New Version Polaris_Win64_Shipping_2025-02-09_1723_28485 Summary The second content update for POLARIS™ is here! And given it’s quite a bit bigger than our last one, we’re giving it a name worthy of its status: Welcome to the Skyborn Echelon update. Skyborn Echelon encompasses a range of additions, most significantly our new Sandbox mode, which allows groups of friends to get together in any level for unstructured fun, where they can learn the terrain, experiment with weapons and abilities, and generally blast the heck out of each other. As I expressed in our previous update, I want to send an enormous thank you to everyone who has experienced POLARIS™ so far. Your passion and enthusiasm for the game has been so rewarding. We’ve amassed quite a community already and I've really enjoyed interacting with many of you in the official POLARIS™ Discord server: https://discord.gg/polarispve We love this game. And we love tinkering away on it and adding new features to it. Many of the changes in this update were directly motivated by your feedback. Thank you for inspiring us. The headline additions for Skyborn Echelon are: 🛝 Sandbox Mode Given the dynamism of our flight abilities and totally destructible environments in POLARIS™, the new Sandbox mode can be a real blast. Get creative with your friends and carve the maps up by drilling into them with Sonic weapons or blasting them apart with the devastating new payloads. Or just kick back and relax or even set your own rules, using the mode as a playground for ad hoc games of deathmatch, organising jet-powered sky races, or whatever your mind can conjure up. It’s your space to do with as you see fit. Please share videos of what you get up to in the game. Sandbox is where you’ll be able to push the game’s systems to their absolute limits - and maybe even beyond - so we anticipate it being a venue for some amusing antics. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do. 🪖 Payload Update Payloads can be crazy fun. But we spoiled them a b...Read full article on Community Announcements (Jonathan Burroughs)Patch NotesOfficial
POLARIS™ - Update - 'Beacon'
New Version Polaris_Win64_Shipping_2025-01-31_1674_28267 Summary The first content update for POLARIS™ is here! Thank you so much to everyone who has experienced POLARIS™ already during launch week. Your passion and enthusiasm for the game has been so rewarding. And I've really enjoyed interacting with many of you in the official POLARIS™ Discord community: https://discord.gg/polarispve As a thank you for all the love you've shown the game, we'd like to share our first content update, which we're referring to as Beacon. The big ticket additions are: 🐍 Burrowing Devastator Rigs! The Regime Engineering Corps have performed fresh topographical scans of allied settlements in the Free Worlds and their Devastator drilling rigs pose a greater threat than ever before. With detailed analysis of the geological composition of all terrain in the vicinity of our evacuated cities, we can expect Devastators to be more bold than ever in how they tear their way through the landscapes of our idyllic home worlds. Furthermore, the Regime has deployed a variety of new Devastator classes, ranging from smaller scout vehicles to huge behemoth drilling rigs. Show them no mercy. Take the fight to the Regime and obliterate any of the serpentine Devastators you encounter. ✨ Personal Teleport Beacons! We've added an all new deployable item to the Requisition system - the Teleport Beacon! Teleport Beacons are unlocked by default and cost no Requisition Tokens to deploy. Summon a Teleport Beacon into the level and by referring to your team health status in the bottom left of the HUD, you'll be able to instantly teleport to the beacon's location once it has landed. Previously it was only possible to teleport to the locations of team members in multiplayer. Now point-to-point teleportation is available in single player too. Plus the feature works across the game, adding new tactical opportunities however you choose to take the fight to the Regime. We hope you enjoy! 📈 New Rebalanced Difficulty Leve...Read full article on Community Announcements (Jonathan Burroughs)Patch NotesOfficial
POLARIS™ - Minor Patch
New Version Polaris_Win64_Shipping_2025-01-30_1665_28198 Change List Improved the art associated with the grav boots pickup Fixed bug where players could become trapped under the ocean Removed duplicate key binding categories Fixed bug with the appearance of the Regime hover mines Added bullet-proofing to prevent Gunship shield damage carrying over post-revive Additional minor fixes and improvementsRead full article on Community Announcements (Jonathan Burroughs)AnnouncementsOfficial
POLARIS™ is here!
POLARIS™ - for some, the video game event of the Anthropocene epoch - is now officially on sale and available to pour into your computer's electronic innards via the Steam Entertainment Delivery Platform: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2482850/POLARIS/ For the next 7 days the game will be discounted, a special treat for distinguished and discerning early adopters who like to make smart and mature decisions about their personal finances. Should you play POLARIS™? Of course, nobody would dare to ask such a brazenly naive question. Should you pay for it now, for the low low price of ? Naturally. To fail to do so would be an insult not just to yourself, but to your people and your entire cultural heritage. Support great art. Release dopamine into your body. Click buttons and tap keys. POLARIS™ awaits. Godspeed.Read full article on Community Announcements (Jonathan Burroughs)
