Stars!, real time, thirty minutes, an AI that plays by your rules
Free closed playtest for Windows, Linux and macOS
Easy, Normal and Hard are one computer player at three paces. It sees only what its scouts see and pays for every ship, like you. Measured over hundreds of matches: Easy beats Hard about one match in ten, Normal about one in three.
Press I for every planet you own and what each one should build next. With a colony ship selected, the three best planets to settle are numbered on the map; B sends it to the first.
Missiles, tracers, explosions that light up the space around them, planets burning under bombardment, fleets streaking into warp. Effects Low keeps it calm on older PCs.
Every match is saved: watch it again from either side, with or without the fog, with charts of how it went. Four tutorials teach the basics, moving, fighting and the economy.
Scout. A scout reaches a new system and shows which planets you can settle.
Colonize. A colony ship warps to the best world and lands.
Build. Mines and factories; each planet tells you which one it needs next.
Strike. Fighters, frigates and cruisers, each one beats another. Gather and go.
Capture. Break the defences, land your colonists, take the planet.
A zip per platform: unpack it and start the game, no installer. During the closed playtest the download asks for the password from the Discord.
Settings has two buttons, Open log folder and Open replays folder. On Windows both are under %APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Stars Reborn\. Send the newest log and the replay of the match with a bug report.
What changed in the latest release, in a short video. The chapters are under it.