Idle Space Raider
Released Feb 2019
You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power. Complete missions, mine ore, kill enemies, research new tech, return to base to upgrade ship and repeat.
72% positive · 248 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
Idle Space Raider launched on February 5, 2019, with the developer immediately outlining plans for further content including a stargate system, new events, and new items. True to that promise, the developer shipped substantial updates throughout early 2019: the Stargate system arrived on March 2, 2019 (Update 1.3.0), followed by a major expansion of that system on March 31, 2019 (Update 1.4.0–1.4.1) which added the Void Lab and maxed the Stargate at level 20 — fulfilling the developer's stated intent from launch. The last recorded communication was a bug fix patch on July 29, 2019 (Update 1.4.4). Since then, the developer has posted no news, roadmaps, or announcements of any kind. All three major content releases occurred within the first five months of the game's life, and there has been no developer activity of any kind since July 29, 2019 — nearly seven years ago. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no outstanding commitments referenced in any post, and no indication from the developer that further content is planned. The game appears to have concluded its active development phase with the July 2019 patch.
Evidence
Major update 1.4.0–1.4.1 expands the Stargate to max level 20, adds Void Lab access, mythic ships and modules per race, and new automation options.
Stargate system released with 6 alien races, new modules, weapons, researches, and a higher level cap — fulfilling the key launch promise.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Coconut Shavers
Achievements
80
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
You are one of the station guards and need to patrol space. Complete missions and raids, upgrade ship and station to increase your power.
Game features:
Game features:
- Ship with 4 weapon, 4 module and 1 skin slots
- Station with multiple sections: armory, bar, shipyard, dev center, mining center, bounty hunter guild, stargate, automation, academy...
- Different ammo modificators for weapons (simple stat modifier or abilities).
- 5 ability slots with 9+ ablities to select from (active and passive). Abilities can be upgraded.
- Module augments with random bonus stats
- Ammo modificators workshop: extract or add duration, combine to get new one
- Offline progress system - ore mining, spend ore gained in offline to increase level and buy resources for ugprades.
- Automation system with toggles and upgrades in different categories: weapon levels, research levels, bar drinks/mercs, ability use, mining.
- Events system - special timed events with own set of good rewards inlcuding rare weapons, modules, ammo mods and ship skins.
- Stargate - build a stargate to access 2nd level of resets and get access to alien technology (main ability improvements/modifiers, unique researches, unique weaponry/modules/ammo mods and skins).
- No Sound (99.9% of the time, the game is going to be in the background).
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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