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Star Control: Origins

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App ID 271260
App Type Game
Store Name Star Control®: Origins
Developer
Publisher Stardock Entertainment
Franchise Star Control, Stardock
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Nitrous Engine
Last Changenumber 31262086
Last Record Update 23 September 2025 – 11:40:07 UTC ()
Release Date 20 September 2018 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
😏 71.52%
2k reviews
3
In-Game
+7
😃 Funny 📚 Story Rich 🧞 Choices Matter 👤 Third Person 🔫 Shooter

Star Control is a space role-playing game in which you command Earth's first interstellar starship on a mission to save the Earth from hostile alien empires.

Additional Information

Developer Stardock Entertainment
metacritic_name Star Control®: Origins
controller_support partial
GameManualURL https://store.steampowered.com/manual/271260/
community_visible_stats Yes
workshop_visible Yes
DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Stardock Entertainment
Store Release Date 20 September 2018 – 16:00:00 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://www.facebook.com/official.stardock/
https://www.twitch.tv/stardock
https://x.com/starcontrolgame
https://www.youtube.com/stardockgames/
Primary Genre Adventure (25)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Simulation (28)
Steam Release Date 20 September 2018 – 17:00:00 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 13 August 2025 – 17:51:18 UTC () (1755107478)
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Detected Technologies (?) Nitrous Engine, CEF SDK, FreeImage SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, Wwise SDK
Steam Deck Compatibility
  • Steam Deck:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on Steam Deck
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  • SteamOS:
  • Valve is still working on adding support for this game on SteamOS
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  • category: Unsupported
  • steamos_compatibility: Unsupported
  • test_timestamp: 11 February 2022 – 00:00:00 UTC
  • tested_build_id: 7338281
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Content Descriptors General Mature Content (5)
First seen on SteamDB 17 December 2013 – 00:22:32 UTC (), in changelist #356456
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

10 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles Achievements
English Yes Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes Yes
German Yes Yes Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes Yes Yes
Norwegian Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes Yes
Finnish Yes Yes Yes
Italian Yes Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes Yes

Tags

😃 Funny 📚 Story Rich 🧞 Choices Matter 👤 Third Person 🔫 Shooter 🔫 Third-Person Shooter 🗺 Exploration 🥇 Competitive 🌄 Action-Adventure 🗿 Dark Humor 💥 Action 🗺️ Adventure 🚀 Sci-fi 👽 Aliens 🌠 Space 🌫 Atmospheric 🛠️ Moddable ⚔️ Combat 📺 Local Multiplayer 🔚 Multiple Endings

Categories

Single-player Online PvP Shared/Split Screen PvP Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Steam Workshop Steam Cloud Stats Includes level editor Remote Play Together Family Sharing Multi-player Shared/Split Screen PvP Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

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timestamp13 August 2025 – 17:51:25 UTC

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Steam charts

  • 3 players right now
  • 17 24-hour peak
  • 2,601 all-time peak 22 September 2018
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  • 0 24-hour peak
  • 13,699 all-time peak
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User reviews history

  • 😏 Mostly Positive
  • 71.52% SteamDB Rating
  • 1,945 73.7% positive reviews
  • 693 26.3% negative reviews

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Markers

Date Label 30-day Peak
20 September 2018 Steam Release -
7 April 2020 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Stardock Strategy Bundle -
25 February 2021 ⇄ Humble Bundle: Humble Stardock Wayfarers Bundle -

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Steam player counter indicates there are currently 3 players live playing Star Control: Origins on Steam.

Star Control: Origins had an all-time peak of 2601 concurrent players on 22 September 2018.

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