Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

Buy low. Sell high. Watch an entire star sector react.

Star Trader is a deterministic, fully offline trading sim set in a living deep-space economy of 6 sectors and 33 worlds. Prices breathe with supply and demand, AI merchant guilds work their own strategies, pirates hunt unescorted freight — and every run is reproducible down to the last credit from a single scenario code.

READ THE TIDE, RIDE THE TIDE

Every world produces what it can and hungers for what it can't. Watch prices swing with each turn, chase the "best destination" column across 37 goods, or run the sector scan to surface hundreds of arbitrage routes — then pick your own. When shortages bite, launch an economic blockade and sell into the spike you created.

FROM STREET PEDDLER TO SECTOR TYCOON

[]Trade by hand — buy raw materials where they're cheap, haul them to worlds short on supply []Discover hidden recipes — experiment in the Recipe Lab; relic-tier formulas are hiding in the outer sectors []Automate with fleets — five ship classes, from nimble Cutters to heavy Ore Barges, running auto-arbitrage, mining, patrols and hunts []Build space stations — turn discovered recipes into production lines for passive income []Fight for the lanes — three tiers of pirates, faction protection rackets, escorts and bounty hunts []Outsmart the guilds — Red Sail, Swiftcurrent and Deepwell each play monopoly, arbitrage or price war; their intel panel shows their latest move

A SECTOR WITH STORIES

Narrative event chains unfold as you play: guild wars, mysterious signals, harvest seasons — and in the outer sectors, five handcrafted worlds (Veinmelt, Jadereap, Ashforge, Hushport, Firstring) with their own specials, from relic whispers to black-market premiums. Deal in smuggled goods if you dare: prices are higher, and so are the seizures.

DETERMINISTIC. OFFLINE. YOURS.

[]One code, one sector — share your scenario code and friends replay the exact same world; a paste-and-play preview of Steam Workshop support []100% offline — no API key, no account, no internet required, zero telemetry (see our Privacy policy) []Deterministic by design — the same seed plays the same game, so competition is about decisions, not dice []Legacy — finish a run and carry +2,000 credits into New Game+; 15 achievements and 8 milestones chart the climb
• Bilingual — full English & Simplified Chinese UI, self-hosted music and sound effects

HOW LONG?

Three difficulties (Relaxed / Standard / Hard). A standard summit run takes about 2–6 hours — tight enough for one sitting, deep enough to replay. The outer sectors unlock as your net worth grows: The Veins, The Breadbasket, The Foundries, The Fringe, and finally The Vault.

Ready the cargo hold, captain. The tide is turning.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Generative AI was used during development: the four background-music tracks were produced with Suno, and the in-game narrative text and store copy were drafted with AI assistance, then selected and edited by the developer. The game's code was also written with AI coding tools under human direction. The game can also optionally generate a custom starting world with a live AI model