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Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
720 hourly samples, with the daily peak drawn over them. Weekends are shaded.
46 months, December 2022 to September 2026. The highest number of people in the game at once, each month, on a time axis -- a gap in the record stays a gap.
The highest number of people in the game at once, each month. Four, because four is as far back as the source keeps anything finer than one figure a month.
31 days, each one the highest figure that day. The source keeps no hourly detail this far back. Weekends are shaded.
31 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 436 hourly samples from 13 Aug, which is as far back as the source keeps every hour. Weekends are shaded.
12 days as the curve, each the highest figure that day. Behind it, 284 hourly samples. Each dip is a night. Weekends are shaded.
Starcom: Unknown Space was released on 2 Sep, 2024.
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A blank audio cell means full audio was not marked in the returned language list.
23 achievements in total.
50 developer announcements, Nov 2024 to Dec 2025 · times in UTC
Greetings Commanders,It's been several months since my last news update. Coming up on the seven year anniversary of Starcom: Nexus entering Early Access, the end of the year, and a current big sale on Starcom: Unknown Space, this seems like…
justkevinPatch for Unity Security Issue CVE-2025-59489. Also includes update to Turkish localization content.
Patch notesEarlier this week I updated the default build with a small patch.The main thing I've been working on since the last update has been investigating Unity's ECS system. That has been a huge learning experience with positive and negatives that…
justkevinMinor patch to fix: Localization bug preventing some text fields from being shown if user's system language was set to Turkish Fixed potential issue with user content Fixed typo
Patch notesSince Starcom: Unknown Space entered Early Access in 2022, I've posted weekly updates on the game's development, with only a few scheduled interruptions. While I am still doing work on the game and releasing patches as necessary, I've…
justkevinTwo weeks ago I put up a player survey to gauge interest in a possible future Starcom game. So far, I've received over 600 responses. Most of the players who left comments expressed enthusiastic interest in either another game or DLC. The…
justkevinThe default branch has been updated to Kepler 21548. This updates/addresses the following:Fixes an issue where anomaly roll modifiers would not be reset between encounters, potentially leading to scenarios with very large bonuses or…
justkevinLast week I made a long post about ideas for a potential sequel, as well as a survey to gauge player interest in different possible changes. If you haven't already, please take a moment to fill it out and let me know your thoughts.On…
justkevinFirst, as previously mentioned, the game is now officially Steam Deck Verified! Through the help of players, I've been gradually improving controller and Deck support since 1.0 launch. The last mile from "Deck Playable" to "Deck Verified"…
justkevinQuick update this week: I'm currently working on a longer news/update post and player survey, but they're not quite ready yet.Last week I talked about making the Creator Tool available to all players, but was blocked due to an issue in the…
justkevinThere's a new Opt-in Beta available. This is a minor update:First, it hopefully addresses a long standing bug that caused skill check modifiers after certain anomalies not to be reset, leading to weird modifiers, like +1530%.Two, it…
justkevinTwo weeks ago I talked about posting a player survey in the next couple weeks. I still plan on doing that, but decided to prioritize a few other tasks. One of those, as I posted about last week, was getting the game Steam Deck Verified.The…
justkevinSince the game's official 1.0 launch in September of last year, I've been making continuous updates to the game with new content, bug fixes and QoL improvements. Among these have been enhancements to controller and Steam Deck™ support.The…
justkevinIn the my last news update I announced my wife and I were taking a trip to Scandinavia at the end of May. Now we're back.Nordic GameIn the first half of the trip we were in Malmö, Sweden for the Nordic Games conference. This was the first…
justkevinKepler 21540 is a very minor patch to address some text scaling issues for Steam Deck verification.
Patch notesNext week I'll be traveling with my wife to attend the Nordic Game conference in Malmö, Sweden. This is actually the first time I've ever attended a game developer conference: when I first started out doing indie game development, it was…
justkevin(Posting a day earlier than usual because I'm out of town this weekend.) On Sunday I posted build 21533 which addressed a few QoL type issues and aimed to fix several of the remaining "stuck" issues. These are spots where the main storyline…
justkevinVarious fixes to areas where players have reported being stuck with no clear way to advance the main storyline, plus some QoL improvements: Visited trade planets are considered "explored" for purposes of dimming explored stars (existing…
Patch notesVery quick update this week: On Monday I posted a small patch that adds the ability to load a blueprint even if you don't have the requirements while in planning mode (plus a few minor other fixes). I've also started work on another minor…
justkevinMinor updates: If the player is in Planning Mode in the shipyard they will be able to load blueprints that they do not have the tech/resources for "Exit station" and "Delete saves" alert/confirmation dialogues now allow selection of a…
Patch notesIf you missed the announcement from earlier this week, the default build has been updated to Kepler 21530, mostly with changes for improved Deck / Controller support, with a few other patches. Deck/Controller Improvements: Improved Save &…
justkevinThe default branch has now been updated to the Kepler 21530 build. The main goal of this build was to prepare the game for Steam Deck verification, although there are a few minor gameplay improvements as well: Deck/Controller Improvements…
justkevinThis is the third and last post in a series on the technical details of the Mission System. But first a bit of regular news: As I've mentioned previously there's a build on the beta branch with a number of improvements to Deck / Controller…
justkevinThis is the second part in a series where I discuss the technical implementation of Starcom's mission system. You can read the first part here. Last week I explained how the mission system works overall. As a quick recap, several times a…
justkevinThis week I'm going to start a multi-part deep dive to talk about how I implemented mission logic, with code examples. But first I wanted to remind new players that there's an updated build on the beta branch. It's mostly changes to improve…
justkevinOver the past three weeks I've been working on improving Deck / controller support and the updated build is now deployed (along with a few other unrelated fixes) on the beta test branch. In the process I had to make a number of small…
justkevinAs discussed last week, I'm continuing to work on changes necessary for Steam Deck Verification. Overall, almost all of the game is playable on the Deck, but there are still some parts of the UI that cannot be controlled using only standard…
justkevinHappy Pi Day! Since the 1.0 graduation update of Starcom: Unknown Space back in September, I've made a lot of updates to the game in terms of both content, bug fixes and QoL improvements. In the last category are a number of incremental…
justkevinLast week I mentioned I was getting over an illness. It doesn't seem to have been Covid or the Flu, just a really bad head cold. Maybe due to not having had one in over five years, my immune system was out of practice? Still not 100%, but…
justkevinHot patch to fix issue with music not playing in latest update.
Patch notesKepler 21517 Patch: Mitigate potential memory leak when on the Operations Panel of the station Several minor controller hints Fix minor memory leak from saves Changed navigating module selection with controller: DPAD up/down now cycles…
Patch notesAnother quick update this week. Just after last week's post I started to feel a bit of a scratchy throat and by Saturday I had my first full-on head cold in years and it was a rough one. By Wednesday I was starting to feel a bit better and…
justkevinVery quick update this week. In the past week I spent a little bit longer investigating the memory leak on the Operations Panel I discussed last time, before posting a patch to the opt-in beta branch that mostly mitigates it. Apart from…
justkevinThere was another minor patch this week to fix a couple of issues in the latest update, improve the new thermal visualization system, and add volunteer improvements to Russian and Ukrainian language translations. Apart from that, I've been…
justkevinKepler 21508 Patch notes: Compacted module selector layout to fix UI overrun Modified thermal visualizer intensity, added subtle perlin animation Further reduced respawning "deadman" station drops Added volunteer Ukrainian language…
Patch notesVery quick update this week: Last week, the new Kepler 21506 update was promoted to default with a lot of new content, QoL improvements, bug fixes, etc. Since then, I posted patch 21507 to address relatively minor issues that have cropped…
justkevinMinor patch to the latest update: Added "resume autopilot" hotkey (default to "I") Added "turn to mouse" in addition to "steer to mouse" hotkey Volunteers have provided a number of corrections/improvements to the DeepL Russian translations
Patch notesStarcom: Unknown Space has just gotten a significant update including dozens of new anomalies, several new side-quests and regions, a few new techs and modules and a bunch of fixes / QoL improvements. Some of the more significant…
justkevinTwo weeks ago I posted that there was a new opt-in beta available with a bunch of new content, QoL improvements, bug fixes, etc. Since then, I've released 3 patches to fix various issues players have identified in it. At this point around…
justkevinThe big news for this week is that Starcom: Unknown Space just hit a lifetime milestone of 100,000 copies sold on Steam! This was a bit of a surprise for me: two weeks ago, it was at around 75,000. But last weekend it was featured as one of…
justkevinStarcom: Unknown Space is one of Steam's curated "Weekend Deals" right now, which has brought it in an influx of new players. If this is you, welcome and thanks for playing! Every week I use this space to give an update on what I've been…
justkevinHappy New Year all! Over the past couple months I've made a lot of incremental fixes, changes and content additions to my local development version. Every small change has a chance of introducing a bug. So on News Year's Day I started a…
justkevinA short update this week as I spent a few days with the family for Christmas. This week I spent some more time on the side-quests I previously discussed, created several new related anomalies and tackled some bug fixes. I've previously…
justkevinHappy Steam Winter Sale! Starcom: Unknown Space is 25% off during this sale, and Starcom: Nexus is 75% off. I'm continuing to work on some additional side-content for an upcoming update and don't want to put any spoilers in a news…
justkevinMost of this week I've spent working on the side-quest storyline I mentioned previously. To avoid spoilers, I won't go into much detail here. Instead I'm going to post some of my rough notes on mission design. I had the idea of making a…
justkevinQuick update this week: I've continued work on a new side-quest storyline. Without too many spoilers, the storyline has a number of design goals, including guiding players a bit more in parts of the existing story where players are getting…
justkevinHappy (US) Thanksgiving everyone! Last week I started sending interested testers keys for the new experimental "Starcom Creator" tool. Again, if you're interested in playing with it and giving feedback, shoot me an email at [email protected]…
justkevinI've uploaded another video on the Creator tool: And I also uploaded the first version of the tool to Steam. I've sent some invites to players to check it out: if you're interested in playing with it and giving feedback, shoot me an email…
justkevinContinuing my video series on the Creator Tool, this week's update covers Regions: At this point the tool is mostly working with a few janky areas. I'm still testing and fixing features, as well as working on creating documentation. Besides…
justkevinFor the past month or so I've been working on updating the game's content creation tool with the goal of making it available to players interested in trying to create their own content for the game. It's not quite ready yet for beta…
justkevinWhat Steam runs, and with what. Straight from the app configuration.
| Description | Executable | Arguments | Platform | |
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| Launch | Starcom Unknown Space.exe | windows |
The folders Steam Cloud syncs. The root is a token Steam uses for a location on your own machine, not a path this page can know.
| Root | Folder | Files |
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WinAppDataLocalLow | Wx3 Labs, LLC\Starcom Unknown Space\saves | * |
WinAppDataLocalLow | Wx3 Labs, LLC\Starcom Unknown Space\blueprints | * |
It runs on public data and somebody's spare time.
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