Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder

Released Feb 2025

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony sim game. With unique vertical and horizontal base-building gameplay, settle on 10 hostile alien planets and build your own thriving colony. Get enough materials to build a physics-based Spaceship and try to escape from disasters.

70% positive · 831 reviews
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All announced content has been released
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Stellar Settlers launched into Early Access on March 11, 2024 with a published roadmap committing to 7 content updates (3 major) including a Combat Update, all within roughly a year. The developer delivered on this roadmap steadily: a QoL & Scalability update shipped on May 5, 2024; Game Modes arrived on June 23, 2024; the Uncharted Update (2 new planets) followed on September 2, 2024; and the Combat Update shipped on December 19, 2024. On February 22, 2025, the game graduated to its full 1.0 release, bringing all six game modes, two additional planets, achievements, and the progression system — completing everything the Early Access roadmap had promised. A small bug fix patch followed on February 25, 2025, which is the last developer communication on record as of today (June 20, 2026). The developer has not announced any post-launch content, DLC, roadmap, or future updates since the 1.0 launch. The game's 43 news posts show no major content releases after February 22, 2025, and no developer posts of any kind after February 25, 2025 — now over 16 months ago. With all roadmap commitments fulfilled at 1.0, no outstanding content announced, and no post-launch update cadence established after the full release, the game shipped as a complete package.
Evidence
Full 1.0 release launched with all game modes, two new planets, achievements, and progression system — fulfilling all Early Access roadmap commitments.
news post · Feb 22, 2025 source development ending
high
Combat Update shipped with a new asteroid planet, enemy drones, three turret types, and a Base Defense game mode — the final major Early Access update.
news post · Dec 19, 2024 source content shipped
high

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Details

Publisher
Rogue Duck Interactive
Achievements
30
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Stellar Settlers is a chill space base/city builder and colony simulation game set in the depths of uncharted space. As you embark on a cosmic adventure, take control of a space settlement and build your thriving colony on alien planets with different challenging and hostile environments that want to destroy your colony.

Every new planet is different, procedurally generated environment, ores, special events, new settlers, building pods and stories. Adapt your play style to mine and collect as much materials you can. When you are stable enough, start designing and building a physics-based spaceship (similar to Kerbal Space Program) to escape the planet when environment conditions get too harsh. Progress through different planets and visit them all.

Explore the unknown, mine valuable resources, and manage your colony with strategic choices like picking talented Settlers. Wishlist it now!

With original vertical space base building mechanics, strategize your base with horizontal and vertical connections to the Base Pods with different functionality, durability, and cost. Mine more, build a bigger, safer space base for your Settlers.

Take on the adventure and challenge of overcoming 10 different carefully designed hostile planets (will be 10 after full release), that want to ruin your plans and colony in every step. Every planet's environment and disaster mechanics require a different mindset and strategy to overcome.

Your Settlers are your most important tool for success. With progressively unlocking new settlers with different talents and perks, pick the Settlers to come with you, based on your own play style and strategy.

Stellar Settlers features 5 different game modes: Morph the gameplay depending on your preferences. Do you want an extra chill experience with no negative events? Or do you want to build crazy spaceship builds and launch them? Unlimited resources?

Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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