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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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Review score: 50% on 2026-11-01 → 50% today (6 reviews)
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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…
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 customi…
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 binding
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.…
Fixed: - Empires' names and primary flag color were randomized when creating a new game.
Fixed:- Events: Fixed a bug where game event notifications (pings) did not show at all.- Fleets: Fixed a bug where fleets didn't stack correctly after opening galaxy map for the first time.
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 The Wiki is back! wiki.newstarsgame.com - Community wiki is now live again with upd…
The Hex Worlds Update is now live! The biggest update introduces fully playable Hex Worlds with three world sizes, alongside major AI improvements, quality-of-life upgrades, balance tweaks, and a wide range of fixes. Galactic politics are now more dynamic, col…
Fixed bugs where...Map: Empires attempted to spawn in same star system on compact mapsCamera: Panning while screen edging causes camera rubber-bandingCamera: Panning over edge boundary causes rubber-bandingGame: Fixed game breaking when going to the main menu,…
Map presets have been added, along with general improvements. Added Map presets -> Save map settings, in the main menu, in a similar way to empire presets. Improved Pause menu -> Map settings text -> now displays all map settings rather than a few. Empire icon…
It's been a while since the last dev log. Here are some recent developments for New Stars, with emphasis on empire customization. Empire Presets Many games have a feature where you can save customizations. New Stars now has this! Six new default empire presets…
Development on New Stars started two years ago today. Here are some recent changes. More Optimizations Saving the game no longer lags. AI now mostly uses multithreading. Unnecessary event calls have been reduced which decreases CPU load as well. Other changes …