$14.99StarMade Build ships, fly them into battle
StarMade is a voxel space sandbox where you and co-op friends build ships, stations and factories block by block, then fly them into fleet battles, pirate fights and galaxy-wide trade. Bring patience for the learning curve and you get a universe that is genuinely yours to shape together.
Is StarMade worth it?
StarMade is worth it if…
- you like building big projects together over many sessions
- you like tinkering with weapons, rails and logic systems
- you like open space sandboxes with trading and faction fights
- you like hosting your own server with custom settings
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Build ships together, block by block
You start with empty space and a pile of blocks. With copy and paste, symmetry modes, undo and shape helpers for spheres and rings, you and co-op friends can raise a mining skiff one evening and a lumbering capital ship the next. Someone places armor while someone else wires power, shields and thrusters. It is slow, fiddly work in the best way, the kind where one more adjustment turns into another hour.
Wire weapons, doors and moving parts
Ships here are machines, not models. You combine weapon systems into sniper beams or swarms of missiles, then hook up rails and logic gates to make elevators, sliding doors, cranes and timed switches. One friend can rig the lights and hangar doors while another tunes the guns. Get it right and your shared creation lifts off with everything opening, closing and firing on command.
Share an infinite universe
The universe is procedurally generated and enormous, with galaxies, planets, stations and warp gates to link it together. You can explore, salvage stations, trade for profit, run factories, fight pirates or join opposing factions on community servers. Settings are heavily adjustable, so your group can tune a private world for relaxed building or for faction wars and attempts to control whole systems.
What should co-op friends know before starting?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. Singleplayer worlds use the same building, trading, exploration and combat, so you can learn the tools, test a ship design or run factories alone before inviting friends onto a server.
How do you play together?
Through community-hosted dedicated servers with adjustable settings. Join the same server, build on the same station or crew allied ships, form alliances, trade together or take on pirates and rival factions as a group.
Is it hard to learn?
Expect homework. Building, power, weapons and logic have depth, and the in-game guidance is thin, so plan on guides, videos and trial runs. Groups do best when one person learns the build tools first and teaches the rest.
