Between the Stars
Space action RPG mixing cruiser battles with text-based events
Isolated Games · Released Mar 7, 2024
ActionAdventureIndieRPGSimulationStrategy
- Reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 74% of 2,502
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 7
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 11 months ago
- Oct 6, 2025
What is Between the Stars?
You captain an interstellar cruiser in a single-player space action RPG, traveling between sectors of a procedural galaxy to stop the Children of the Sun from expanding beyond the border planets. You fight real-time ship battles, respond to text-based events, hire crew, and upgrade ships and equipment.
For you if...
- +you like story-driven space adventures with substantial reading
- +you enjoy managing a crew alongside ship combat
Not for you if...
- −you want fast dogfights in small, agile ships
- −you prefer minimal reading between combat encounters
- −you expect complex combat and varied side missions
What players say
74% of 2,502 reviews are positive
Players praise the writing, ship designs, and crew events; some also enjoy the cruiser combat. They complain about bugs that block progress, repetitive missions, awkward controls and menus, and story choices that can feel restrictive.
Screenshots and trailer
Between the Stars system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
- Processor
- Intel Core i3-4330 @ 3.50GHz / AMD FX-4330
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 660 Ti / Radeon R9 270X
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64bit
- Processor
- Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.30GHz / AMD FX-6300 Six-Core
- Graphics
- GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 470
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 5 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 106
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- External controllers are not supported for the primary player
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, French, Russian.
Tags
- Space
- RPG
- Action
- Simulation
- Indie
- Strategy
- Adventure
- Space Sim
- Singleplayer
- Sci-fi
- Sandbox
- Open World
- Roguelite
- 3D
- Tactical RPG
- Early Access
Recent updates
- Oct 6, 2025 · Patch v1.0.0.9
- Aug 27, 2024 · Patch v1.0.0.7
- May 22, 2024 · Patch v1.0.0.6
- Apr 29, 2024 · Patch v1.0.0.5
- Mar 13, 2024 · Patch v1.0.0.4
1 DLC available.
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