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Explore a shared science-fantasy galaxy, gather resources, reshape reactive planets, and build settlements through crafting and trade.
Released 18 Aug 2026
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Explore a living galaxy in Stars Reach. Discover new planets, build settlements, and shape environments that react to everything you do. Players work together to transform untamed worlds into thriving civilizations across a single shared universe.
Developed by Playable Worlds, Inc. · Published by Playable Worlds, Inc.







Stars Reach is a shared-universe science-fantasy MMORPG where you explore planets, travel between worlds through wormholes, and gather resources to establish a life in the galaxy. Each planet has its own terrain, ecosystems, wildlife, and materials to discover.
The world simulation lets players dig and reshape terrain, while environmental processes such as flowing water and shifting sand affect the landscape. Broad skill paths support different specialties, and proficiency grows through using the relevant skills and equipment.
Crafting depends on learning recipes, developing the right skills, using appropriate workstations, and sourcing materials with different properties. Players can build homesteads and contribute to settlements, then trade resources and crafted goods through a player-driven economy.
Players who enjoy Stars Reach often praise its sandbox freedom, terrain simulation, and the depth of its gathering and crafting systems. They also value exploring planets and working with other players to build settlements and supply goods. Reviews are sharply mixed, with many describing the current experience as unfinished and rough, while some enjoy its systems despite those limitations.

An entire universe awaits you in Stars Reach. In this science-fantasy MMORPG, you'll visit strange, new worlds, become an explorer, and build a life on planets that react to everything you do. Your choices will change your world. And, you'll do it with every other player on a single server. Leave your mark on the galaxy!
Each world responds to your actions. A deep, reactive simulation allows water to flow naturally, forests to burn, and lava to harden into new materials and land masses. From lush forests to winding rivers to perilous mountains, every planet has its own ecosystems, resources, and challenges. Your decisions determine what resources are available to you, how wildlife reacts, and ultimately which settlements prosper.
Planets are living systems. Your decisions determine what resources are available to you. Climate changes, creatures migrate, disasters strike, and the world reacts in ways you can’t fully control.
Travel through wormholes to discover new worlds, explore, build, survive, and thrive. Every planet begins untouched. What it becomes is up to you.
Master one of dozens of skill paths, and live the galactic life you’ve always dreamed. Whether you want to protect settlers as a ranger, build a trade empire, or offer your services as an architect, Stars Reach offers many skill paths that allow you to chart a course through space that fits your play style. There are different weapons to master. There’s a career path just for you in Stars Reach.
You’re not locked into any single playstyle. Experiment with different skill paths and find the combination that suits you best. Build your own class from different skill sets and define your role in the galaxy.
Your first steps onto a new world take you far beyond the familiar. You’ll need to adapt to your surroundings by learning to survive. Every skill path has accompanying equipment, which you’ll gain proficiency with by using those tools.
More importantly, your contributions to the community will increase your proficiency. A camp you build will earn you experience when others rest at it. Community means survival, and we’ve built Stars Reach to support pro-social behavior and limit the ability for other players to ruin your experience through griefing.
You can build a cozy cottage on a remote hill, and carve out a living by yourself. But if you crave community, team up to build settlements and cities, shape how they grow, and decide how they are governed.
Team up and claim a large plot of land that isn’t just a home base. You and your friends can cluster your homesteads, build a community, and govern together.
The resources you gather can be sold in a unified galactic economy driven by players. Or, you can use them to craft tools and technology to supply distant worlds with vital goods necessary for their survival.
Trade with players across the galaxy, specialize in what you make, and become a master of your craft and earn renown across the galaxy.
Your choices determine what comes next.
Cities grow or decline, ecosystems shift, wildlife becomes extinct, and resources are used up or recover based on what you do. Protect the environment and its inhabitants, or strip mine it for profit. Other players live with the results of what you leave behind.
This is Stars Reach! What will you become?
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |