Galaxy Life
Released Aug 2022
The universe is full of Starlings, tiny orange aliens that want to take over the galaxy. Create your own space colony, fight epic battles and discover new planets. Train your soldiers, develop your technology and create unimaginable gadgets. Enjoy this huge social game with friends!
91% positive · 8,603 reviews
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Released, ongoing live service game
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Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Galaxy Life is a free-to-play online MMO strategy game that launched on August 31, 2022 and is designed to run as an ongoing live service with no defined endpoint. The store description explicitly advertises seasonal events (Halloween, Doomsday, Christmas, Easter), persistent online multiplayer, weekly and monthly leaderboards, a monetized in-game store, and "periodical game updates with new features, content and fixes" as core features of the product.
The developer has maintained a steady stream of updates throughout the game's life. Major content drops include the Christmas 2024 event (December 24, 2024), the Earthquake Update on February 22, 2025 adding new building levels and a new battle support unit, the Doomsday Polarity Golem event on December 12, 2025, and a birthday feature patch on September 8, 2026 celebrating the game's fourth anniversary on Steam with new gameplay options. The developer is also actively working on a significant long-term project — porting the game from its original engine to Unreal Engine — with alpha testing publicly showcased as of April 13, 2025 and a dedicated roadmap published at the official website.
The game has no defined completion point by design: it is built around a persistent galaxy, recurring seasonal content cycles, ongoing PvP competition, and a monetized store. The most recent developer communication was on September 8, 2026, just ten days before today's date.
Evidence
Fourth anniversary patch launched with new gameplay features including self-attack testing, bulk cube opening, and various bug fixes. Event runs until September 21, 2026.
Doomsday Polarity Golem event launched with a new unit, new decorations, limited-time obstacles, and a new battle soundtrack.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Phoenix Network
Achievements
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Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Impressive planets, strange creatures, and dangers can be found in Galaxy Life! In this online game you steer your colony to victory! Your little friends may be cute and sweet, but space is full of all sorts of threats.
Explore the world of Galaxy Life, build a space colony, attack enemies, grab items and rule the universe. Galaxy Life is full of interesting planets and characters. You'd be surprised how big Galaxy Life is! In this free to play MMO strategy game that mixes traditional easy-to-play casual gameplay mechanics with touches of more traditional genres and features like tower defense, RTS, or several competitive PvP features in a persistent on-line Galaxy. You play together with others or your friends and take on evil, so gather your friends to fight evil in this Galaxy Life social game!
Features:
+ Persistent Galaxy on war with players from all over the world!
+ Challenge friends or foes in battles for loot and control over the Galaxy!
+ Strategically Secure your colonies from the attacks of rivals and even friends with your defense towers, mines, bunkers full of units, walls, energy shields, traps and more!
+ Conquer intriguing and wonderfully weird new worlds to expand your empire!
+ Form a galactic Alliance with other players and wage epic Alliance Wars together against the other ones!
+ Bet against other people by fighting them in Rival Battles!
+ Climb the weekly, monthly or all time player leader boards to show your friends and the entire world what your Starlings are made of!
+ Seasonal events like the Halloween or Doomsday!
+ Periodical game updates with new features, content and fixes!
+ Train and upgrade new troops or resource buildings!
+ Craft powerful Special Attacks or units with unique collectables!
+ Multiple ways to cooperate with friends helping them!
+ Save your Starlings from the grip of the evil Firebit!
Explore the world of Galaxy Life, build a space colony, attack enemies, grab items and rule the universe. Galaxy Life is full of interesting planets and characters. You'd be surprised how big Galaxy Life is! In this free to play MMO strategy game that mixes traditional easy-to-play casual gameplay mechanics with touches of more traditional genres and features like tower defense, RTS, or several competitive PvP features in a persistent on-line Galaxy. You play together with others or your friends and take on evil, so gather your friends to fight evil in this Galaxy Life social game!
Features:
+ Persistent Galaxy on war with players from all over the world!
+ Challenge friends or foes in battles for loot and control over the Galaxy!
+ Strategically Secure your colonies from the attacks of rivals and even friends with your defense towers, mines, bunkers full of units, walls, energy shields, traps and more!
+ Conquer intriguing and wonderfully weird new worlds to expand your empire!
+ Form a galactic Alliance with other players and wage epic Alliance Wars together against the other ones!
+ Bet against other people by fighting them in Rival Battles!
+ Climb the weekly, monthly or all time player leader boards to show your friends and the entire world what your Starlings are made of!
+ Seasonal events like the Halloween or Doomsday!
+ Periodical game updates with new features, content and fixes!
+ Train and upgrade new troops or resource buildings!
+ Craft powerful Special Attacks or units with unique collectables!
+ Multiple ways to cooperate with friends helping them!
+ Save your Starlings from the grip of the evil Firebit!
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Last evaluated Sep 18, 2026
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