Starlab is a game about building automated factories and flying between worlds in a seamless 2D solar system. Explore hand-painted landscapes, mine their resources, and use your growing industry to blast through alien swarms as you make these worlds your own.

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About This Game

You awaken as the latest clone inside a facility built to outlast death. Everyone else is gone. The solar system they left behind is hostile, scattered, and waiting to be rebuilt.

MASTER A NEWTONIAN SOLAR SYSTEM

Every world has its own gravity. Walk around entire moons, launch from any surface, establish an orbit, perform a slingshot, or misjudge your trajectory and crash somewhere far from home.

Fuel, mass, momentum, and gravity shape every journey. Travel seamlessly from the ground to orbit and onward to another hand-painted world—without selecting destinations from a map or passing through loading screens.

TURN INFRASTRUCTURE INTO EXPLORATION

Begin with hand tools and whatever resources you can reach. Establish outposts, generate power, extract materials, and connect machinery into automated production lines.

Your bases manufacture the fuel, ammunition, equipment, and construction materials needed to travel farther. As you expand, isolated footholds grow into an interplanetary supply network supporting expeditions across the solar system.

FIGHT ON FOOT OR FROM VEHICLES

The Echo, an alien swarm, has infested the worlds around you. Its nests spread across the surface, hostile creatures defend its territory, and powerful enemies wait beneath the ground.

Fight with firearms, grenades, flamethrowers, plasma weapons, and heavy machinery. Engage on foot, use physics-driven vehicles to cross hostile terrain, or build the infrastructure needed to supply a prolonged campaign.

CHOOSE WHERE TO PUSH NEXT

Each world presents different gravity, terrain, resources, and threats. Decide where to establish your next base, which technology to pursue, and how much equipment and fuel an expedition is worth risking.

Push outward from Earth and the Moon toward Mars, Mercury, Venus, and beyond. Every new foothold makes the next journey possible.

DIE, CLONE, REPEAT

You will run out of oxygen. You will lose control of a vehicle. You will crash somewhere inconvenient or become overwhelmed far from your supplies.

When you die, awaken in a new body at your cloning pod and prepare another attempt. Recover what you lost, change your approach, and return better equipped.

Death is temporary. The infrastructure you build is not.

Key Features

  • Explore a seamless 2D solar system with planetary gravity and Newtonian spaceflight

  • Pilot rockets, ground vehicles, and jetpacks using real fuel, momentum, and mass

  • Walk around entire planets and travel continuously from their surfaces into orbit

  • Build bases with power grids, extractors, factories, and automated supply lines

  • Fight an alien swarm on foot or from physics-driven vehicles

  • Wield firearms, grenades, flamethrowers, heavy weapons and more

  • Choose your route across Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and beyond

  • Respawn through cloning to keep death fast and momentum high

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

We use AI to build development tools and reduce tedious work. Our artists control every aspect of how the game looks and sounds.

On behalf of my team. Making art and music is why we make games. Starlab's artists and musicians create their work without generative AI.

Speaking for myself the developer behind the project. I use AI-generated placeholders to explore ideas, this includes art and sound. These are temporary and I will continue hiring professionals to replace this work as development progresses.

Current Capsule image and Moon to Earth Surface Teaser trailer song are generated. These will be replaced soon.

Localization includes machine assisted translation.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Players use guns and other weapons to fight insect-like creatures and robots. Stylized combat includes red blood splashes and insect body parts.

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Dual core 2Ghz+
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 512 MB VRAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Processor: Core i5
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: DirectX 11 capable GPU with 2 GB VRAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 16.04+ 64-bit
    • Processor: Dual core 2.2Ghz+
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: SM 4.0 512MB VRAM
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
    • Processor: Core i5
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: SM 4.0 2GB VRAM
    • Storage: 5 GB available space