Space Station: Beyond

Space Station: Beyond

Released Jan 2026

Play as a variety of creatures or characters and try to survive either maintaining or attacking a space station while everything that can go wrong has already gone wrong.

82% positive · 140 reviews
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Space Station: Beyond is a free-to-play multiplayer space station simulation game that launched on January 9, 2026. The game is structured as an ongoing live multiplayer experience — players join community-hosted servers each session and participate in ever-changing emergent gameplay. There is no discrete content endpoint by design. The developer has maintained consistent activity since launch: a major launcher overhaul shipped on March 11, 2026 (Update 4.0.0) with significant infrastructure improvements, followed by a bug fix on March 20, 2026 (Update 4.0.2), then a feature update on June 3, 2026 adding BYOND server favoriting and OpenDream server fixes, and most recently Update 4.2.0 on June 15, 2026 adding a new authentication provider system. These updates reflect continuous work on the platform infrastructure that keeps the game's multiplayer ecosystem running. The game's free-to-play, massively multiplayer design — with its community server ecosystem spanning BYOND and OpenDream platforms — is characteristic of a game intended to run indefinitely rather than reach a content completion point.
Evidence
Update 4.2.0 adds new authentication provider and fixes crashes related to custom auth providers — continued active launcher development as of the assessment date
news post · Jun 15, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Update 4.0.0 delivers a major launcher overhaul: server launching fixes, account provider redesign, improved UI, browser integration, download resumption, and automatic log cleanup
news post · Mar 11, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Pspritechologist
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP

About this game

Welcome! You have just arrived on board a Nanotrasen-operated workplace vessel located in the far re- [Syndicate attack shuttle. Your mission is to raid th-] job is to tend to the hydroponic gardens and supply the kitchen with fresh foods. During your down time you can hang out at the bar, socialize with your crew mates, take a walk through the station parks, visit the Mime's show, or enjoy any of the other many recreational activi- [Inside the armory is an armed nuclear device strong enough to shatte-] the station. Nanotrasen is proud to have you working with us, and promises to ensure your safety and well-being as long as you are here. When you work for Nanotrasen, you're family. Please, enjoy your- [Ensure no survivors.]

Work together with your crew to keep the station running, fight Security over wrongful convictions, construct amazing new extensions to your habitat, or just follow the Clown around and heckle him all shift. Welcome to Space Station 14.

Work jobs such as:

  • Engineer: Maintain the station's structural and atmospheric integrity, or waste thousands of dollars of materials on a massive ship to take joyrides in!

  • Scientist: Research the various anomalous activities around the station and harness their power to create new and exciting anomalous activities! Cause more problems than you solve!

  • Security Officer: Arrests trouble-makers, ne'er-do-wells and terrorists alike, ensure no one gets a chance to kill your crew before you do!

  • Doctor: Ensure the crew is kept healthy, prevent deadly outbreaks, and absolutely do not distribute illegal drugs.

  • Cargo: Keep track of the station's supplies, ram the delivery shuttle into the station at reckless speeds, sell everything not nailed down before Security finds out!

  • Chef and Bartender: Keep the crew well-fed! Be the only thing keeping literally everyone from breaking out in a fist fight! Listen to the microwave!

  • Clowns: You're here too for some reason!

Threats

During your shifts, you may meet any number of a variety of things that will try to do anything from sabotage your station to confuse the hell out of everyone present. Make sure they don't follow through or that it's at least very funny when they do.

  • Nuclear Operative: Sneak into the station to assassinate the holder of the Nuclear Authentication Disk and blow up the station with its nuke. Nuclear.

  • Thief: An average crew-man with a kleptomaniac streak.

  • Zombie: Brraaaaiiinsss...

  • Traitor: Infiltrate the station and fulfill your goals without ever getting caught.

  • Cultist: Convert the entire crew to your ideology before loudly summoning your God to consume the stars!

Last evaluated Jun 15, 2026
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