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Stars in Shadow

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App ID 464880
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Iceberg Interactive
Franchise Iceberg Interactive
Supported Systems Windows
Last Changenumber 31422210
Last Record Update 1 October 2025 – 16:16:18 UTC ()
Release Date 19 January 2017 – 18:09:42 UTC ()
😏 75.05%
797 reviews
12
In-Game
💡 Strategy 🗺️ 4X 🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🌠 Space 🛡️ Turn-Based Combat

Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.

Additional Information

Developer Ashdar Games
metacritic_name Stars in Shadow
metacritic_score 75
metacritic_fullurl https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/stars-in-shadow?ftag=MCD-06-10aaa1f
GameManualURL https://store.steampowered.com/manual/464880/
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DLCAvailableOnStore Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Iceberg Interactive
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Store Release Date 19 January 2017 – 18:10:19 UTC ()
community_hub_visible Yes
Primary Genre Strategy (2)
Store Genres Indie (23), Strategy (2)
Steam Release Date 19 January 2017 – 18:09:42 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 28 October 2022 – 20:43:28 UTC () (1666989808)
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Detected Technologies (?) FMOD SDK, Lua SDK
First seen on SteamDB 21 April 2016 – 12:34:52 UTC (), in changelist #1905784

Supported Languages

1 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes

Tags

💡 Strategy 🌱 Indie 🗺️ 4X 🎲 Turn-Based Strategy 🌠 Space 🛡️ Turn-Based Combat 🚀 Sci-fi 🎲 Turn-Based 🎲 Turn-Based Tactics

Categories

Single-player Family Sharing

Assets

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Trailers
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Depots

ID Configuration Size DL.
464881 Windows EnglishStars in Shadow Content 3.23 GiB 2.88 GiB
464883 Stars in Shadow SteamUser Keys 450.45 KiB 161.55 KiB
698280 DLC 698280Stars in Shadow Legacies (698280) Depot 22.76 MiB 22.79 MiB

Total size on disk is 3.26 GiB and total download size is 2.90 GiB.

Total size on disk is 3.23 GiB and total download size is 2.88 GiB, when filtered to Windows, English, no DLC depots.

Branches

Name Description Build ID Time Updated
public 5390871 11 August 2020 – 07:04:56 UTC
feb_2019 February 2019 build 3597480 7 October 2019 – 20:42:17 UTC
nov_2019 November 2019 build 4397495 18 July 2020 – 22:17:41 UTC
in_development help the devs test new/unstable features 20149091 26 September 2025 – 22:01:09 UTC

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baselanguages English
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