Stars Reach

Greetings, Wayfarers!Ground Control Hotfix 8.5.1 is here, with fixes for crafters, homesteaders, and explorers alike. This week’s update adjusted crafting progression, restored missing recipes and Wood-to-Oil refining, and corrected…

Message from RaphHello Wayfarers!I know many of you may have seen that we had some severe server issues around launch. We’ve published nine updates in the last two weeks, hotfixing performance and stability problems, adding quality of life…

Greetings Wayfarers, The servers will be coming down for maintenance at 3PM Pacific with an estimated downtime of two (2) hours. You can also keep an eye on Server Status for the latest updates.When the game comes back up, Ground Control…

Hello, Wayfarers!It has been an eventful week at Playable Worlds, with the launch of Stars Reach into Early Access. This has been a long journey for us, but it is also just the beginning!As those of you who have already jumped in know…

Hello, Wayfarers!Welcome to Stars Reach! We’re so grateful you’ve decided to join us on this adventure!As you know, Early Access launched into Early Access today, August 18! We’re excited to welcome the world into our galaxy, and we know…

Dear Wayfarers,It’s been a busy week for us here at Playable Worlds Basecamp, as we’ve celebrated the close of the Stars Reach Playtest!With less than one week to go before our Early Access launch on August 18, 2026, we’re hard at work…

Hello, Wayfarers!The time has finally come! We have closed the Stars Reach playtest servers for the last time to prepare for our Early Access launch on August 18, 2026!The excitement at Playable Worlds Basecamp is high. Our team is hard at…

Hello Wayfarers,Early Access is on the horizon, but the sun is shining in our latest update! Jump in and experience The Calm Before the Storm! This is our final playtest update before we close out the playtest and prepare to launch Stars…

Salutations, Wayfarers!This is it! We have reached the FINAL major update before Early Access launch on August 18, 2026!There’s a lot packed into the Calm Before the Storm Update, with improvements across the interface, crafting…

Hello, Wayfarers!We’ve got big news for you this week. START THE COUNTDOWN! EARLY ACCESS LAUNCH IS COMING! Today we announced that Stars Reach will enter Early Access on August 18, 2026!We’ll be launching with three options to take your…

Hello, Wayfarers!Now that you’ve had time to stretch your legs after The Great Wipe, we’re excited to gather your feedback about all the new updates! Keep those bug reports coming in! Each one helps us build a better experience for our…

Hello, Wayfarers!Welcome to your new galaxy! As promised, we have completed The Great Wipe, and your first steps from here on out come with new systems, visuals, and more!There’s a lot to take in, so we’re hosting a Fireside Chat on…

Greetings, Wayfarers!Join us tomorrow at 10:00 AM Pacific on the "Auditorium" voice channel in discord or you can watch the stream on the Official Stars Reach Twitch for another Community Event as we tour the worlds and showcase everything…

Salutations, Wayfarers! Buckle up! The next update is a BIG one. We’ve been building to this moment for quite some time, and we’re going to need your help to kick the thrusters to make sure she’s spaceworthy! We’re publishing this update…

SKWATCHI PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONSkwatchi are the “big friend shaped like a bear-shaped boulder” species: big, hairy, and built like they could carry a crate of ore up a mountain without breaking stride. They’re generally the tallest and…

Salutations, Wayfarers! We have continued to battle with the space otters in the wiring with this update and solved many of our stability issues we have been seeing from the last updates. We are eager to see how the changes have improved…

Hello, Wayfarers!It’s been a wild couple weeks, and we can’t wait to give you the full download! We just got back from Los Angeles, where we met with press and creators attending Summer Game Fest. It was simply unbelievable to finally get…

Last Saturday, we hosted a community play session and we had a blast! Check out some of the highlights from the event.

How do you create an infinite variety of worlds while keeping each one unique, believable, and fun to explore?In this episode of Behind The Devs, we sit down with Sean Grady to take a closer look at the new World Generation system coming to…

Hello, Wayfarers! We’re putting the finishing touches on our next update, tightening the bolts and patching the hull. Our primary mission for the update was to resolve the stability issues that were introduced in a recent update. We’ve…

Hello, Wayfarers!Today, we have some big news for you! But first, let’s take a two minute pause to watch something together…That’s right, friends! Stars Reach is coming to Early Access this summer. We’ll have a lot more to share about this…

Hello, Wayfarers!When you log into this week’s playtest, you’ll notice a new coat of paint and polish on some user interface elements. We’re continuing to make updates for functionality and consistency, so expect to see more of this in the…

This community stream was a bit more intense than expected, with all those monsters and bosses… Good thing we had some leaks to play with as well!

Stars Reach is entering an exciting phase in our playtesting, and our latest updates focus on evolution and refinement. As you may have noticed, this week’s playtest isn’t live yet! We’re targeting tomorrow, May 15, at 11:30 AM PT or…

We are taking a bit longer to release our next update as we are developing a lot more features while also optimizing and reworking some assets. In this livestream, we introduced the upcoming changes and what will be released in the near…

This week, we’ve got some updates on our progress and an oft-requested video diving deep into one of our key community features! This Saturday, May 9, we’ll be holding a Fireside Chat with Raph Koster. Not only will we give you a look at…

STOKADI PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONStokadi look like they crawled out of a foggy night club that also happens to be a court of law: vampire/goth/emo-coded, with a deliberately moody silhouette. The signature look is dramatic outerwear—cloaks, high…

Hey Reachers,Stars Reach development is entering an exciting phase! While we can’t wait for you to experience what we’re working on, we do need to share news about changes coming to the regular playtests.We’ve reached an inflection point in…

It’s been a little while since our last Starside, and we have a few things to share.Last weekend we released the Open Horizons Update, introducing a more open starting experience, UI improvements, and gameplay changes based on your…

Welcome, Reachers, to a new interplanetary update! Following up on our previous update about the initial game tutorial, we've taken a step back to re-evaluate the starting progression based on player feedback. Concerns were raised that the…

FAE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONFae look like small, wiry humanoids with delicate, translucent wings that flutter a lot more for expression than for actual flying (most people in the Garden treat the wings as basically decorative/vestigial).…

TERRAN PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONTerrans are just… humans. No horns, no wings, no whiskers, no gills—just the full messy range of human body types, skin tones, hair textures, scars, tattoos, and fashion tribes. If you want to make a Terran read…

Welcome, Reachers, to a new interplanetary update!In our previous update, we shared a new game pathway to help new players explore the aspects of the game (such as mining, combat, crafting, …), but it was not completely done yet, as one…

GERTAN PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONGertans are the species everyone mistakes for “the spawns of hell” at first glance: red skin, curving/curling horns, and a generally sharp, rugged silhouette that reads dangerous even when they’re being perfectly…

From our current location on the moon called Haven, we can sometimes see the planet Crucible below. We’ve heard from the advance team that Crucible is an uncommon planet and we look forward to our first visit.WHAT’S NEW Here are a list of…

ELIONI PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONElioni are the “cat-people” of the Garden in the most readable, cosplay-friendly way: cat ears, whiskers, a furred face, and a visible tail, on an otherwise humanoid body. They tend to look built for alertness and…

We're hard at work on enhancements to some systems, and a number of fixes to get them ready for you to put through their paces.We're working on an improved shader system, an overhauled interface system, and wrangling Jotania's wobbly terra…

As we are writing this update, we should mention a service interruption: Our camera is being a bit temperamental, disconnecting from characters. We're investigating now, and we'll open the servers as soon as we have a fix. Stay tuned by…

THAT’S NO MOONA huge number of changes have been made in this update. The largest of those changes is the new training base on the moon of Haven that you encounter after you finish the Hallway experience with a new character.Eventually, the…

That’s No Moon Update 7.1.2Today we are releasing a small update with a couple more improvements too good to wait for our next content update.Here’s a list of improvements:We have fixed one or more significant GPU memory leaks which should…

THE MOON ON THE HORIZONThese are the last days of the Hidden Fog Update. A new update is being installed during the next maintenance cycle. Soon you will visit a new moon with the name of Haven. There is much to learn there. This is a…

2025 MOST ANTICIPATED MMORPGFor the first time in 10 years, MassivelyOverpowered have awarded the huge honor of Most Anticipated MMORPG to the same game two years in a row. That award was bestowed on Stars Reach for 2024 and 2025. We are…