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StarFear

Also known as StarFear, s, starfear

Fly. Die. Improve. Repeat. StarFear is a brutal space extraction roguelite where loss is learning, skill is the answer, and nothing feels better than getting out alive, alone or with your friends.

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30 May 2026

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Patch notesPublished 30 May 2026

First Playtest Conclusions

Thank you! First of all, thank you to everyone who participated! It is now clearer than ever how valuable crowdsourcing feedback and collecting analytics are to understanding what's working (or not). Up until the first…

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4 updates

May 2026
Early Game Balance PassWe've been analyzing some of our analytics for first half of the playtest so far and it's clear we have a problem: No one is making it out of Act 1 (~Threat Levels 1-5): I like the direction of the difficulty trend line…Announcement1 change3 numericBalance10 May 2026
April 2026
We're very excited to turn it on and see who (not counting our mother) turns out to play! Prizes At the start of the Playtest, we have three Steam leaderboards for you to compete in: Hub Gauntlet Best Time, a short race…68 changes3 numericFixStore28 Apr 2026
One Year In. Come Die With Us.A year ago this month, StarFear was a networked cube in space. Over the last months we've been playtesting internally extensively: adding systems, tweaking balance, and moving inch by hobby inch closer to our vision for…Event7 changesBalanceGameplay19 Apr 2026

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