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Beyond These Stars

68% positive of 175 Steam reviews

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Released
2026
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG, Epic

Made by Balancing Monkey Games. Published by Hooded Horse.

About the game

Build a city on the back of a Space Whale and learn to coexist as you journey through the stars. Manage intricate supply chains and the needs of your people as you build outposts, meet aliens, and uncover the mysteries of the universe.

Tagged by players

  • Colony Sim
  • City Builder
  • Base Building
  • Automation
  • Building
  • Economy
  • Sandbox
  • Resource Management
  • Management
  • Survival
  • Open World
  • Sci-fi

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    I want to love this game but I just don't get the resources. A couple of production facilities produce both primary and secondary resources (byproducts). If either of these is full, the facility stops working. Which also means that any production buildings that rely on these resources stop working. So if you have too much of one resource then your industry grinds to a halt. So I should just spend them, right? Well…

    9.8 h played when written. 99 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    I feel like the negative reviews aren't quite doing the game justice. The production chains for Beyond These Stars aren't remarkably complex at a glance, but the difficulty comes from balancing your economy. The game does not want you to produce more than what you need; this isn't Factorio. This is a game about coexistence and balance. The game wants you to balance need against want, and overstocking can have…

    9.3 h played when written. 66 found it helpful.

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