Beyond These Stars Wiki
Fan-Made Community GuideBeyond These Stars is a city builder and colony sim released on Steam for Windows on October 16, 2026, in which you raise a settlement on the back of Kewa, a sentient space whale. This fan wiki covers what players need in the first hours: pollution control, adjacency and terraforming, building movement, the demo and sandbox modes, and the platform questions that come up after launch.
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Beginner Guide: Your First HoursPractical early-game orientation for Beyond These Stars: tutorial pacing, soot and pollution trouble, Kewa care, and where to find the official starter guide.
Guide: Surviving Your First ColonyA practical Beyond These Stars guide to pollution control, adjacency effects, terraforming, tech unlocks, perks and exploring the galaxy on Kewa.What is Beyond These Stars?
Beyond These Stars is a sci-fi city-building game from Balancing Monkey Games, the studio behind Before We Leave, published by Hooded Horse. You build a civilisation on the back of Kewa, a space whale travelling the stars, and the whale is a character in its own right: it has moods and hopes, it carries your city between systems, and how you treat it shapes the journey. The official description frames the task as coexistence: meeting other species, running outposts on nearby planets, and uncovering the truth about the Peeps' ancestors and the space whales alike.
This wiki is a fan project, not an official resource. We have no access to developer builds or internal documentation. Every page is written from sources that were saved and can be checked: the Steam store page, the developer's press kit and announcements, the Steam Community hub and its hotfix notes, published reviews, and player videos whose transcripts are the speaker's words rather than official statements. Where the community has no information, the page says so instead of guessing.
Because the game launched on October 16, 2026, most of what exists now is launch-week material. Prices, discounts, review counts and patch notes on these pages are dated snapshots of what a page said on a given day, not live figures. Check the linked store or community page before you act on a number.
Released
Oct 16, 2026 (Steam, Windows)
Developer
Balancing Monkey Games, Dunedin NZ
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Price on 2026-10-17
$29.99, 20% off to $23.99 until Oct 30
Demo
June 11, 2024; updated Nov 18, 2025
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Explore Beyond These Stars Guides
Eight starting points, in the order we would read them: the first-colony guide, then the specific problems players search for — buildings, cleaners, no space, the demo, co-op, reviews and release facts.
Beyond These Stars Guide
The place to start: pollution as the first constraint, small industrial clusters instead of one big district, adjacency trade-offs, and expanding only when supply chains can support it.
Beyond These Stars Buildings
What to expect from the building set at launch: layout around land contours, relocating buildings instead of bulldozing, and power and pollution as two separate ranges.
Beyond These Stars Cleaners
What cleaners do, why heavily polluted tiles turn toxic and stop factories, and how cleaners fit alongside trees, composting and where you site industry.
Beyond These Stars No Space
Two readings of no space: a Steam install short on disk room, or a settlement with nowhere left to build. The first is a storage check; the second is the game's design.
Beyond These Stars Demo
Yes, there is a free demo on Steam. When it arrived, what changed in the late-2025 update, how to find it on the store page, and what the opening actually contains.
Beyond These Stars Multiplayer
Is there co-op? As of 2026-10-17 the Steam page lists single-player as the only player mode, with no co-op or multiplayer announced for the 1.0 release.
Beyond These Stars Review
A roundup of launch-window impressions: the LadiesGamers review from 13 October 2026 and a Steam page snapshot showing 80% of 31 reviews positive on 17 October 2026.
Beyond These Stars Release Date
The launch facts: October 16, 2026 on Steam for Windows, the 1.0 build, the October discount window, the demo, and where platform questions lead.
Frequently Asked Questions
When did Beyond These Stars come out?
Beyond These Stars released on Steam on October 16, 2026. The developer press kit gives the full release as 17 October 2026 in New Zealand time and 16 October 2026 in Central Standard Time, and a September 15 post on the Steam hub said the date had been pushed by one day to October 16. As of 2026-10-17 the Steam page lists that date and shows the game as released.
Does Beyond These Stars have a demo?
Yes. The developer press kit lists the demo at 11 June 2024 with an update on 18 November 2025, and as of 2026-10-17 the Steam page still showed a demo download panel next to the full game. Because the demo was updated in late 2025, older impressions of its balance and tutorial may not match the current build.
Is Beyond These Stars multiplayer or co-op?
As of 2026-10-17 the Steam store page lists Single-player as the only player-mode feature, and no co-op or multiplayer mode has been announced for the 1.0 release. Kewa and the alien species you meet are in-game characters, not other players, which is where some of the co-op confusion comes from.
How much does Beyond These Stars cost on Steam?
On 2026-10-17 the Steam page listed $29.99, with a 20% introductory discount to $23.99 that the same page said ends October 30. That is a dated snapshot of the store listing, not a live price; check the Steam page before buying.
Stuck on soot, power or placement?
The fixes section covers what launch-week players posted about: a generator with no power connection, running out of buildable land on Kewa, and cleaner placement checks. It says plainly when there is no official fix.