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Starship Horizons is a multi-player experience allowing 2-6 players commanding a Starship as the bridge officers in the roles of Captain, Flight, Tactical, Science, Operations, and Engineering.

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Release 42.08

Nov 4

Many quality of life updates to release 42 based on user feedback.

Starship Horizons Bridge Simulator

Can someone explain to me how is this supposed to work?

The steam page says it supports up until six players, trailer shows a large room full of screen all having something separate going on. Do I need like 6 different laptops hooked up in a local network all running the game at the same time?

Skyguard

Nov 5 @ 2:13am

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Starship Horizons October 2026 Update

Oct 16

Highlights

This is the first update since September 2025. It brings Hydra Studio, the Steam Workshop, smarter NPC ships, a working economy, rebuilt docking and a new Settings page.

Hydra Studio. Build your own missions, maps, ships and modules in a full editor suite.
Steam Workshop. Publish a module in one step, and play what other captains share.
NPC ships think for themselves. They patrol, escort, trade, mine, dock and fight, at skill levels from Rookie to Ace.
Credits, stores and crafting. Buy and sell at merchants, fabricate parts and mine ore from planets.
Docking, rebuilt. Dock with moving ships, set down on landing pads, launch from tubes, or board an enemy.
Smoother flight. Ships and shots move without judder, and your own ship answers the controls sooner.
New Settings page. Quality presets, a benchmark, FSR upscaling and surround sound up to 7.1.

New

Hydra Studio. A full editor suite on its own Studio screen: modules, missions, campaigns, maps, the Shipyard for vessel classes, components, models, sound banks, effects, and NPC archetypes and tasks. Tabs can sit side by side or pop out to their own browser tab.
Steam Workshop. Subscribe to a module and it loads the next time you start the game. Publish your own from Hydra Studio's Module page; a new item stays private until you make it public. A Workshop module's mission scripts run only if you trust its author's signature.
Officer Training mission. Five Sentinel-class trainers wait in the Sol system, one for each core console. Officers learn at their own pace, separately or as one exercise.
Economy. Ships earn and spend credits. Merchants price by supply and faction, some stations take remote orders, and the Engineer console has a Store.
Crafting and mining. Build components from recipes on the new Fabrication panel. Drones mine ore from planets for smelting and sale.
Docking and boarding. Dock at stations or moving ships, land on pads, launch from tubes, and seize an enemy ship through its docking port.
Smarter NPCs. AI ships take patrol, escort, trade, mining, resupply and investigate orders. They fly in teams and formations, react to whoever shot them, and come in four skill levels: Rookie, Regular, Veteran and Ace.
Point defense. Weapons can now target and destroy incoming missiles.
New ships and places. Cobra ATX, Probe Class 1, Starport, Trade Depot and Trade Source stations, a Jumpgate and a Wormhole.
Jump Drive panel and a galaxy view that shows where your ship is. FTL now arrives at a system's edge instead of on its star.
Spectator and scoreboard screens, plus a summary at the end of each session.
Game Master tools. A searchable object tree, spawning with a chosen role, component upgrades mid-mission, and separate selections for two GMs at once.

Improved

Settings page. Video presets (High, Medium, Low) with a benchmark that recommends one, FSR 1.0 upscaling, shadow, texture and particle controls, and anaglyph 3D.
Audio. A new Advanced (room) mode drives stereo through 7.1 surround, or headphones. Sound no longer crackles when a mission loads.
Motion. Ships, projectiles and turrets move smoothly instead of stuttering or jumping.
Explosions. Rebuilt in layers: fireball, flash, shockwave, debris, smoke and sparks. Effects now compile while a mission loads, so the first explosion no longer freezes the screen (a 428 ms hitch is now 16 ms).
Graphics. 22 more ship models use physically based materials, and distant planets and moons draw at any range.
Shields. Fighters carry fighter-sized shields, and shield strength follows the generator's output.
Performance. Faster radar, quicker mission restarts and many smaller speed-ups.

Fixed

A new session could stay stuck on "Loading" after the previous one ended.
Enemy and unknown contacts sometimes did not appear on the radar.
Destroyed ships and missiles stayed on the board.
Only player ships collided with terrain and structures; NPC ships now do too.
The target reticle was sized from the center of the map instead of from your ship.
The sky could break after a mission reset or reload.
An FTL course to a target in the same system teleported the ship instead of flying it there.

Install notes

The game now runs on .NET 10. Steam installs the .NET 10 Desktop and ASP.NET Core runtimes the first time you launch after updating.
Steam removes the sample saves and old log files that earlier builds shipped with. Saves you made yourself are not touched, but your pre-flight setup resets once.

Starship Horizons Bridge Simulator

Guide

Hosting A Remote Session

An overview of how to set up your Starship Horizons session to allow remote players to join.

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Guide

Adding Models and Textures

A walkthrough for adding custom models and textures to Starship Horizons

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Workshop Item

The Meridian Rescue

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Workshop Item

Conquest of the Borderlands

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Guide

Starship Horizons Designer Guide

Putting together any helpful tips or uses of the Designer module within Starship Horizons for custom content and campaigns

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Is this dead or being developed, the messages are too old.

Is this being developed or another abandoned project?

MastaOfDisasta

Oct 20 @ 3:38pm

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Any videos of this game yet? As in gameplay...

Thanks

Akimbo 4narchist

Feb 5, 2021 @ 7:39am

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A manual or some other advice for getting started?

I think I completely missed the point of what this was when I bought it. I think maybe I confused it with a different title and picked it up accidentally in the recent sale. I kept launching the game, seeing what looked like a star ship view screen appear, and then had no idea what to do. Some fiddling around showed me I could effectively create multiple "screens" by logging in with different web browser tabs. I have three monitors in front of me usually, so I can put the main application on the middle one...

Phileosophos

Feb 2, 2025 @ 3:12pm

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We tried this today and our ship got stuck on the missiles we fired?

Is this game playable? We sat there and watched as they destroyed our ship slowly...

Goji62

Oct 20 @ 5:48pm

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