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Parallel Space Inc · Published by Parallel Space Inc · Official site ↗
Mostly Positive — 73% positive (2,686 reviews) · 15 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
A unique space strategy game where thousands of players participate in one shared galaxy.
Free to PlayDJCTQ 14Co-opPvP
Free
Free To Play, Strategy, Massively Multiplayer · 2019 · More free games
Hades' Star invites you to strategize and compete in a vast shared galaxy with thousands of other players. Developed by Parallel Space Inc, this 2019 free-to-play game offers deep strategy without the need for expensive purchases.
About this game
In Hades' Star, you create and grow a space Empire over time, in a persistent galaxy that constantly evolves.
These are the star types discovered so far:
As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire's long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy.
As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.
Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 15 minutes.
The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards.
Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees up to 40 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits.
Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat.
These short lived stars only last for 5 minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship's modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player ships and be the last one alive.
Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.
These are the star types discovered so far:
Yellow Stars
As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire's long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy.
As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.
Red Stars
Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 15 minutes.
The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards.
White Stars
Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees up to 40 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits.
Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat.
Blue Stars
These short lived stars only last for 5 minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship's modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player ships and be the last one alive.
Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows Vista SP1+
- Processor: CPU with SSE2 support
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 10 compatible
- DirectX: Version 10
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Hades' Star 2025.2 is now available!
This major update focuses on new content and changes requested by the community. To suggest new features and vote on features other players have suggested, join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/hadesstar Detailed changelog: New module: CERBERUS DRONE (Red Star Level 9)New One Time Event: Hades' Star Completist, starts November 27, 2025. Complete a series of special objectives by participating in all of Hades' Star game modes, and collect Crystals. Players who complete all objectives before the event ends will be awarded an exclusive Distinction.Added additional rewards and incentives for old players returning to the game after a long break.Added one additional Yellow Star Platinum skin for Hades' Star Platinum subscribers.White Star scanner comes pre-equipped with White Star-only ships (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1304407475428130869). White Star-only ships can not be disbanded in White Stars. Regular ships can still be sent to White Stars, and will now return to the gate even during supernova.Added new "Rich Dark Red Star Artifacts" toggle in the Red Star dialog. This toggle allows players to postpone their rich artifact run every day. The toggle status will also apply when joining a Dark Red Star from a Corporation search or an invite. (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1292931504091172894)Corporations can now blacklist specific players (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1250312357574610965)Removed the ability to hide White Stars from the public list. All White Stars are now observable (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1206751668344197191/threads/1418223383031713833)Sharing a view of the solar system during a replay now works properly (the share link in the chat window will take the player to the exact moment in the replay where the original view was shared) (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1418223383031713833)Further player name changes are now allowed, for a Crystal fee (https:/...Read full article on Community Announcements (andreasp79)AnnouncementsOfficial
Hades' Star 2025.1 is now available!
This major update focuses on changes requested by the community. To vote on future update features, join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/hadesstar Detailed changelog: Named Ship Loadouts allow saving module configurations and quickly refitting other ships, or constructing new identical ships. Access from the Module Installation page. (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1206751668344197191/threads/1274969769434419201) Leap and Dispatch now show visual indicator for the AOE damage radius at the landing site (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1206751668344197191/threads/1316265870846201888) A cancelled Dark Red Star search no longer resets the daily rich artifact timer (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1197268069370835114/threads/1298728480250396732) Flagship modules now persist their cooldowns across jumps, same as all other regular ship modules (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1197268069370835114/threads/1227370049388417064) Blast Drone now persists number of activations remaining between jumps to the White Star Fixed issue that could cause scheduled orders to link to/from a Chain Ray Drone weapon to fail to execute (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1197268069370835114/threads/1197492350222610462) Artifacts or Relics that are in the process of loading on the Transport ship will now always return to the planet if the Transport ship is destroyed, regardless of star type. This also fixes a bug where the Time Machine would show incorrect information when such a Transport is destroyed. (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1197268069370835114/threads/1206543942640865330) Remote Mining will now restart after using Artifact Boost (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1197268069370835114/threads/1288975052657791087) Fixed wrong background scaling in module buttons that have reduced width (https://discord.com/channels/255083954036670464/1326424577600917514) Corporation office...Read full article on Community Announcements (andreasp79)Patch NotesOfficial
Update notes, November 7
Additional Crystals awarded to all existing accounts, to help with the Dark Nebula transition. Check your Inbox message. Long time players will be awarded more Crystals. We recommend spending the Crystals towards economy upgrades described in the upgrade guide: http://blog.hadesstar.com/2023/10/dark-nebula-upgrade-guide.html Added additional free planet upgrades for certain accounts that were created pre-Dark Nebula Reduce build price for Battleship level 4 and over Shipment drone: Maximum capacity increased Shipment relay: Hydrogen prices decreased for Relay level 6 and lower Starter pack 2 shipment bonus increased slightly Red Star level 11 Hydrogen costs decreased (scan & transport jump) Active modules are disabled after jump to White Star Cargo Repair in White Stars will no longer consume Relics that are still loading. Reduced requirements for Red Hydrogen achievementRead full article on Community Announcements (andreasp79)AnnouncementsOfficial
Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA is now available!
This is the biggest update to the game since it first released, more than 6 years ago. Thank you to everyone in this community for supporting the game over all these years! Changelog: http://blog.hadesstar.com/2023/10/hades-star-dark-nebula-changelog.html Upgrade guide: http://blog.hadesstar.com/2023/10/dark-nebula-upgrade-guide.htmlRead full article on Community Announcements (andreasp79)AnnouncementsOfficial
Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA is coming soon to Steam and Steam Deck!
Over the past 2 years, we've been hard at work strengthening the foundation of Hades' Star, so that the game can remain popular and viable for many more years in the future. The result of this effort is called Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA, a massive update to the game that is coming soon to Steam. There are multiple posts at blog.hadesstar.com, describing the motivations, design goals and development process that went on during these years to give the update its final shape. You can review those if you want to dig deeper. However, most players will want to see how their daily gameplay will change, and what to do to keep progressing in the game at an optimal rate. For that purpose, we've prepared the following upgrade guide: http://blog.hadesstar.com/2023/10/dark-nebula-upgrade-guide.html {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33944744/172dbe7cec955762ca99009ccf32884ff600395b.png Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA on Steam Deck The Steam Deck is a wonderful device that is perfect for games like Hades' Star. We have experimented a lot with it, and have created a completely new version of the game to suit the hardware. We found early on that the Steam Deck does not offer a great touch experience, so instead we've focused on a gamepad-exclusive interface. We can't wait to show you soon how well the game works on the device. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33944744/366380bedb5d2878bc26fb0c5020857b0c324c1e.jpg Hades' Star: DARK NEBULA is currently scheduled for release on October 30, as an update to the current Hades' Star game on PC and Mac. Unforeseen issues may push this date back. The custom, Linux-native Steam Deck build will launch along with this update, and we aim to have it verified as fully compatible at launch or shortly after. Thank you for supporting Hades' Star, and hope to see you in game! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33944744/24a733a5874a041c752d89920539df27cc31cb8c.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33944744/d44aa1aa5037bc4980024a2c35cfe07ae14cdabe.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33944744/0f401025fc13e4bddbe7a00875452200c0080720.pn...Read full article on Community Announcements (andreasp79)
