Stationeers

Stationeers

Early access since Dec 2017

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

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Evaluation

Stationeers has been in Early Access since December 2017 and remains under active, sustained development by RocketWerkz. The game has received a consistent stream of major content updates throughout 2025 and 2026: The Storm Update (October 16, 2025), The Respawn Update (December 10, 2025), The Combustion Deep Miner Update (February 19, 2026), The Gases Update (March 19, 2026), The Sanitation Update (July 2, 2026), and The Power Line Update (August 12, 2026). This establishes a clear pattern of major updates roughly every 1–2 months in recent months, with the most recent shipping just 5 days before today's date of August 17, 2026. The developer is actively communicating and shipping content at a high cadence. In the August 12, 2026 Power Line Update, the developer explicitly noted that crewed rockets and a new orbital play space are still in progress and available on the beta branch — a concrete signal that more content is coming. The February 2026 update also listed several features planned for future updates, including nuclear reactors, world migration via rocket, and terraforming content. The January 2026 development status post (NEWS-10) documented a reverted multiplayer update due to quality concerns, reflecting the team's ongoing engagement and commitment to stability. The September 2025 post (NEWS-6) described a major terrain overhaul as a "necessary investment" to help the project reach a wider audience, reinforcing long-term development intent. All eight DLC items are cosmetic packs (species packs, bobbleheads, uniform packs, spray paints) and have all been released — none represent outstanding content commitments. The developer has not announced a 1.0 release date or signaled that development is winding down.
Evidence
The Power Line Update shipped, adding power pylons, a cable gun, electrical belt, heavy cable variants, and major multiplayer traffic improvements. The post notes crewed rockets and a new orbital play space are still in progress and available on the beta branch.
news post · Aug 12, 2026 source content planned
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The Sanitation Update shipped, adding a new sanitation survival need, reworked medical system, new injectors, combustor rebuild, rockets improvements, and a major atmospherics/multiplayer performance pass.
news post · Jul 2, 2026 source content shipped
high

Content

8 of 8 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
RocketWerkz
Achievements
53
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself in single player, or online multiplayer with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, medical, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Stationeers is designed for hardcore players who want a game that is systems oriented. Full utilization and optimization of these complex systems will only come from great knowledge and practice. The game presents a variety of science-based survival problems that you must address. Resource and time pressures will drive your initial designs, but the demands of a thriving station will guide you later. 

Features

  • Construction system rewards well-designed architectural, atmospheric, and electrical plans.

  • Atmospherics system for temperature, pressure, combustion, gas mixtures, water, and fire.

  • Physics on dynamic items in the world such as wall fatigue and explosive decompression.

  • Dangerous environments to explore & develop including exotic planets, and asteroid belts.

  • Deformable voxel terrain on worlds and asteroids that enhances mining and exploration.

  • Construct complex factories using machines, conveyors, and computers.

  • Ubiquitous logic system to automate every aspect of your base.

  • Write programs using Integrated circuits & assembly code to automate your systems.

  • Farm livestock and grow plants as a integral part of the station’s ecosystem.

  • Many aspects of the game offer full modding support via the Steam Workshop.

  • Designed from the ground up for multithreading to improve performance + scalability.

Space is empty and the planets are unforgiving to human life. You and your friends initially must decide how to meet your basic needs. Longer term, you will need to engineer solutions to power, heat, resource, and atmospheric problems. Build the most efficient systems you can by utilizing machines and programmable computers to develop automated systems.

Whether on a distant lonely planet, or deep inside an asteroid field, you control every aspect of building & running your station. Harvest nearby resources and use a wide range of tools to construct the ultimate station. Everything your station requires will be built and managed by you and your friends.

What do you do with all that ore you mine? Process it through machines and turn it into goods for more construction of course! There are lots of specialist machines to build and configure such as smelters, sorters, centrifuges, stackers, conveyors, fabricators and more.

Our robust, thriving community has been sharing their creations with us through the Stationeers Steam Workshop since 2017. Join us and build the future of tomorrow... today!

Last evaluated Aug 17, 2026
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