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Effort Games · Published by Effort Games · Official site ↗
Last updated 9 Oct 2026
Blast apart robots with your buddies as each of you controls one limb of a giant mech! Play Microgames on your phones to lock in your attacks! Strategize with your team to launch the ultimate assault!
Adventure, Indie, Strategy · More free games
In Stardust Frontier, team up to control limbs of a giant mech, strategize through official microgames, and blast robots in an exciting blend of adventure and strategy.
About this game
It's You vs. the Frontier, and the Frontier doesn't take kindly to strangers.
Travel to the untamed Stardust Frontier, and forge into the unknown in this roguelike microgaming party adventure! Team up with up to four players and battle against hostile wildlife, scrappy scavengers, and terrifying bosses! Your phones are your controllers, and through them you'll play a myriad of microgames to take aim, fire powerful weapons, repair your mech, and unleash devastating team tactics against your foes!
As you travel through the Frontier, you'll find new equipment, and weaponry, and relics to kit out your mech, encounter strange merchants and unexpected events, and fight all sorts of threatening foes for riches and material. Master the microgames and outperform your teammates to show off your skills, then work with them in times of need to avoid utter destruction! Fight together and claim victory!
Buy Once, Play with the Whole Group - Only the host needs to own the game. Players can hop right in on their phones, no purchase required!
Positions and Classes - Each player controls a unique character with wildly varying abilities, who is responsible for one part of the mech! Combine your unique skills to save yourselves from destruction, and augment and replace your mech parts until you're rocking an incomprehensible amalgam of machinery!
Tactical Microgame Action - Formulate a plan based on your opponent's intents, and use your microgame skills to power your actions! But be careful—Not all foes will wait for you to blast them into orbit! Enemies can dispatch unique reactive intents that change depending on your actions!
Procedurally Generated Runs - With every run taking place on a unique procedurally generated world, there's infinite possibilities and paths to take!
In-Person or over the Net - Stardust Frontier works great whether you're all crowded on a single couch, or spread halfway across the world. Any number of host monitors can connect to a single game, so you don't even need to stream your computer screen!
Every Atom is Customizable - Nobody likes those party games that force you to play that one game everyone hates every. single. TIME. Not feeling a microgame? Turn it off! Want to customize the map size, encounter difficulty, round time, or even make an entirely predetermined run for your friends to suffer through? Fly at it! We've done everything we can to make this the most flexible party game experience you'll ever have.
Unlocks that Don't Unlock your Bank Account - Microtransactions are so not it. Every cosmetic and customization option is unlocked through gameplay, and we're keeping it that way.
An incredible soundtrack by Minecraft composer Aaron Cherof!
Stardust Frontier takes full advantage of your mobile device's capabilities for its controllers. Each player must use a phone or tablet to control the game. To play, launch the Steam game and start a lobby. The game window is your Host Monitor, and all players need to be able to see it at all times. Then, players scan the QR code on-screen to open the mobile controls in their web browsers, no purchase or sign-up required!
Any number of desktop browsers can be connected as additional Host Monitors to a lobby, mirroring the contents of the main screen. Instructions can be found in the game.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 5300
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GT1030
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Requires a Dedicated Graphics Card
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
iOS Megafix
We heard you loud and clear. iOS was not stable, connection issues were common, and intense sequences like the shop were crashing the client. That's not the standard of quality we want to provide. Over the past two weeks, we've patched dozens of bugs and issues related to performance and compatibility, as well as general issues that impact all users. And today we're happy to announce that iOS clients are now fully stable on Stardust Frontier.Thank you so much for your patience, we're really sorry if you gave the game a shot and had a degraded experience due to the previous bugs. We've done extensive testing for the new patch, and haven't been able to replicate any of the previously reported issues, but if you catch anything, please leave us a bug report!Full Patch-NotesAdded fancier graphics for the COLLECT microgame.Added some improved graphics to the BALANCE microgame.Added Low-Graphics toggle in settings, which should help FPS issues on low-end devices by reducing the resolution of some effects.Added automatic hiding of cursor when not moved for a second.Added app icon to steam build.Added Version number to bottom of mobile settings screen.Fixed potentially lag-inducing memory-growth due to perpetual caching of palettized sprites. Palletization is handled on the fly now.Fixed a couple of weapons incorrectly doing worse damage than they should.Fixed starting mech using the wrong palette.Fixed crashes in shop scene in iOS (may have also affected low-end android devices).Fixed dozens of minor edge-case crash scenarios.Fixed shop state desync when buying two parts/weapons of the same type.Fixed particles sometimes rendering above enemy intents on PC.Fixed targeting screen moves remaining confirmed when backing out of the moves list with 'Quick Confirm Moves' enabled.Fixed swapping to a part in the targeting screen not showing the right entity when an attack has already been confirmed.Fixed boss torso indicator clipping offscreen.Fixed some Windows 11 devices just sho...Read full article on Community Announcements (Auri)Patch NotesOfficial
Stardust Frontier Two-Week Mega Changelog!
Hey folks, we've been up to our knees over here at Effort Games in bugfixes and patches. Here's the list of all the improvements we've made to Stardust Frontier, including some SUPER IMPORTANT performance fixes for iOS. We've been taking in as much feedback as we can regarding the minigames, encounter difficulty, and balancing, and we've made changes to hopefully make the game progression feel a lot more fair. If you gave the game a try on release, please give it another go now and give us your feedback on our Discord!Good luck out there in the Stardust Frontier!Up NextContinuing to improve game stability & balancing.New minigames and encounters.A seeecret new team-based feature!0.1.15 (June 16th)EXPERIMENTAL: Updated our sprite rendering to hopefully fix iOS crashes & disconnects (and more rarely android ones)! Please let us know how this change affected performance!Fixed incorrect priority displayed on defensive actions.Rebalanced bullet-dodge minigame's difficulty.Made Collect game a lot more responsive.Added haptic feedback to minigame start.Improved hinting on Wires minigame.Fixed screw game completing before all screws are unscrewed.0.1.13 & 0.1.14 (June 13th)Improved internal logging to assist with bugfixing.0.1.11 & 0.1.12 (June 12th)FIXED AN ISSUE PREVENTING PHONE CLIENTS FROM JOINING (sorry everyone)Fixed lava rendering in boss worlds.Made minigames a LOT more forgiving.Prevented people from somehow getting negative scores???Fixed duplicate encounters generating in the map.Fixed QR codes not working on some phones.0.1.10 (June 11th)Added settings menu on phone main menu.Added experimental options to streamline move selection.Added option to skip tutorial.Added volume slider.0.1.8 & 0.1.9 (June 11th)Migrate server architecture to improve stability.Removed Cloudflare DoH to fix connecting in regions / networks where it is blocked.Fixed weapon comparison not showing description of old weapon.Fixed crash in tank microgame under specific circumstances.Updated b...Read full article on Community Announcements (Auri)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Stardust Frontier Prerelease Demo is OUT!
It's here! The first public demo of Stardust Frontier is out and playable now! Grab your friends and explore the Frontier!Hey folks, thank you so much for your patience these last few months. There has been so much involved in getting a playable demo ready for you all, both expected and unexpected, and we're pleased to say that our demo is now publicly available! The Stardust Frontier Prerelease Demo is still rough around the edges and missing a couple core mechanics that we consider necessary for the full release, but we hope it should be a fun and worthwhile expedition into the Frontier that we have crafted for you so far! So give it a shot with your friends, and please do give us your feedback to help us shape the game as we move towards the full release!Next StepsIn the immediate future (next couple of weeks) we'll be focusing on patching bugs and resolving issues that players encounter and report to us, as well as ensuring the stability of our multiplayer servers as they get their first real surge of organic (and unpredictable) players!After things have had a chance to settle down, we'll be starting semi-regular Playtests on Steam to explore and refine new features that will be coming to the demo, so definitely enroll in the Playtest now if you haven't already! We'll be coordinating and scheduling these playtests through our Discord, so join that as well if you want to be notified of when a new build is available.Thanks for your continued interest in our project. We'll be seeing you soon!- Effort Games Team 🐾Get the Demo!Read full article on Community Announcements (Auri)AnnouncementsOfficial
Stardust Frontier Playtest Begins SOON!
Hey folks, long time no see! We've been real busy over here adding content, polishing up our interface and gameplay, and getting ready for our first live multiplayer playtest! We had hoped to run the playtest much earlier, but long-story-short we got into a mess with Apple trying to publish our iOS client because they didn't understand what it even was! Thankfully, that's all been squared away now, and all we're waiting for is a little bit more polish on the new features we've been able to implement while waiting for them to verify us (bittersweet, I know). But very soon we'll be spinning up the first public playtest of Stardust Frontier!So if you haven't signed up to the Playtest yet, click the button on our Store Page to get access to it once it launches. And if you have already signed up, maybe toss us a Wishlist if you haven't already ːsteamhappyːRight now, we have about 550 playtesters already signed up. We'd love to get it up to around 1000 to really give our server infrastructure a stress-test.We're super hyped to show you all the game! Can't wait to hear your feedback!Oh, and before I forget, Discord plug!Join our Discord!~ Auri 🐾Read full article on Community Announcements (Effort Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
Our Store Page is Live! + Discord Invitation
Hello everyone!! Welcome to our Community Hub for Stardust Frontier! It's honestly been an incredible rush today just seeing the Steam page and all its associated bits and bobs go public; I don't think Brian or I were quite prepared for how suddenly real everything would feel now that it's out!I just wanted to create a little post to let everyone know that we have an Effort Games Discord Server! It's the best place for catching up with the latest development updates, insofar as poorly cropped dev-server screenshots count as updates ;) Aaand, it's a great place to chat with us, if you want to know anything about the project, or maybe get in on some early playtests, or just say Hi!Do take a peek if you're interested!Join Our Discord!~ Auri 🐾Read full article on Community Announcements (Auri)
