Captain Starshot
Released Jul 2019
Fight fierce hostile alien space ships to neutralize their defenses before you board their ships and battle intense on-foot encounters. Eliminate their forces and steal their technology to upgrade your squad with different abilities and save the galaxy!
73% positive · 277 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Captain Starshot was developed by Double Door Games, a student team of 23 members at Breda University of Applied Sciences. The game launched into Early Access on June 7, 2019, and received several feature updates over the following weeks. On July 9, 2019, the team published the full release announcement — titled "Captain Starshot: Release & Farewell" — which delivered a final round of content (a new difficulty mode, a new miniboss, and balance changes) and concluded with an explicit farewell message thanking players for their support. No further posts, updates, or announcements have been made since that date. The store description confirms the team was a student project working on the game for roughly one year, which aligns with a natural conclusion at graduation. The game shipped as a complete, finished product on July 9, 2019, with no further content planned or announced.
Evidence
Full release post titled 'Captain Starshot: Release & Farewell' — the team explicitly said farewell and thanked players, signaling the end of development. No posts have followed since.
Store description identifies the developer as a 23-person student team at Breda University of Applied Sciences, noting they had worked on the game for 'almost a year' — consistent with a project concluding at the end of an academic year.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Double Door Games
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Salute Captain,
We are pleased to see you reporting for duty. Now, let us explain to you what you can expect on this mission;
As Captain Starshot, you and your space crew are tasked with the mission to explore the galaxy in search of villainous aliens and to defeat their leader.
Fly off with your spaceship and face off against the hordes of enemies you will encounter on your mission.
Operate with the help of your crew members, who hold various abilities that allow you to overcome any challenge within the mysterious enemy ships.
- Transition smoothly from the open space environment to on-foot alien ships.
- Experience a unique and interesting pulp science fiction theme that transports you back to the 50's.
- Enjoy a different experience every run because of our procedural generated levels.
- Create countless weapon/ability combinations that will make your experience unique.
- Upgrade and progress your squad to the most powerful humans in the universe!
Good luck on your mission Captain,
Headquarters signing off
Double Door Games is a student team composed of 23 motivated students, following the International Game Architecture & Design Programme at the Breda University Of Applied Sciences. We have been working on this game for almost a year now and we would love to share it with you!
As a team we are truly passionate about making games! Our goal is to deliver a good experience and we would like to do this together with you, our players.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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