Hades' Star
Parallel Space Inc · 2019 · Free to Play, Space, Strategy, Massively Multiplayer, Sci-fi
PC
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About Hades' Star
✦ AI summary
Build a space empire across a persistent galaxy by colonizing planets, establishing trade routes, and researching alien artifacts while managing your own star system. Battle other players in time-limited star events ranging from intense 5-minute dogfights to epic 5-day corporation wars, each offering unique rewards and strategic depth.
In Hades' Star, you create and grow a space Empire over time, in a persistent galaxy that constantly evolves.
These are the star types discovered so far:
As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire's long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy.
As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.
Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 15 minutes.
The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards.
Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees up to 40 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits.
Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat.
These short lived stars only last for 5 minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship's modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player ships and be the last one alive.
Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.
These are the star types discovered so far:
Yellow Stars
As the most stable star type, the Yellow Star offers a perfect setting to establish your permanent presence and plan your Empire's long term economy. All new players start in their own Yellow Star system and over time expand to discover and colonize more planets, set mining patterns, establish trade routes and neutralize the mysterious alien ships found throughout the Hades galaxy. As the owner of a Yellow Star system, you have complete control over what other players have access to it. By establishing diplomatic relations, you can allow any other player to send ships to your system, and dictate your own terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.
Red Stars
Very early in the game, every player will build a Red Star Scanner, a station that allows them to jump ships to detected Red Stars. These stars have a small lifetime and will go supernova after 15 minutes.The goal in the Red Star is to co-operate with any other players that have ships in that star system, defeat the NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from the Red Star planets, and jump back before the Supernova. Artifacts can be researched in the home star and will yield necessary resources for trade, mining and combat advancements. Higher level Red Stars offer more challenging enemies and better rewards.
White Stars
Players can organize in Corporations. Besides helping each other, Corporations can also scan for White Stars. A White Star sees up to 40 players from two Corporations battle in the same star system for Relics, a resource that can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give each member additional benefits.Time passes by very slowly in White Stars: every match lasts for 5 days, giving Corporation members time to talk and coordinate their strategy. The Time Machine can be used to plan future moves, communicate them to other Corporation members, and see potential outcomes of future combat.
Blue Stars
These short lived stars only last for 5 minutes, during which the entire system is collapsing on itself. Each player can only send a single Battleship to the Blue Star. The 5 participating players combat each other, using their ship's modules and other NPC ships to destroy the other player ships and be the last one alive.Blue Stars offer the fastest PvP action in the game. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empire.
What Steam players say
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This might be a good example where deciding on a game by recent reviews would be a mistake. Just note how most of the negative reviews are from veteran players. That's because they were in love with the status and power they had in PvP and to some extent in PvE, no matter that it mostly consisted from unimaginative meta play to straight abusive exploitation of game imbalances. Methods available to a considerably greater degree to higher level players. See where this is going? So when the dev decides to address these issues, the most impacted players claim he is hating them? /facepalm The only thing he actually seems to dislike is unsportsmanlike behaviour. As to the game itself. It has been re-balanced, progress towards the start is faster than before, and slower than before towards the end. New tech added, new max level. Ship action feels slicker, new and more engaging tactics but also faster paced than it used to be. At its core, the game still remains a long term power growth sprinkled with rewarding tactical play, with a focus on 10 min pve co-op matches, with optional 3 min pvp or 5 day pvp matches. Balanced for cca 30 to 60 min of active play daily (maybe a bit more if we cou…20 found this helpful
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the blue star matchmaking system is terrible. Don't even consider playing it. If you want to progress faster you have to do it but playing blue stars makes me want to quite the game entirely4 found this helpful
Hades' Star, developed and published by Parallel Space Inc., is an unusual blend of MMO, strategy, and empire-building mechanics that deliberately moves at its own pace. Instead of overwhelming players with constant battles or demanding daily commitments, it presents a persistent galaxy where progress is measured over days, weeks, and even months. This slower approach gives the game a distinct identity among space strategy titles, rewarding patience and long-term planning rather than reflexes. From the moment players establish their first colony, the game conveys the feeling of building something that will continue to evolve long after a single play session ends. The core experience revolves around managing a personal Yellow Star system. Players colonize planets, expand industrial infrastructure, establish shipping routes, and unlock technologies that steadily transform their modest beginnings into a thriving interstellar network. The game's economy is surprisingly intricate, requiring a careful balance between credits, hydrogen production, and artifact research. Every upgrade contributes to a larger sense of progression, making each newly colonized world feel like a meaningful ac…1 found this helpful
⚠NO GRAMMAR WAS HARMED IN THIS REVIEW⚠ 1st. ive been playing this game since 2023 (📲) and it is amazing SPACE COMBAT!! who would have asked its amazing colonizing planets COOL!! PvE EPIC!!! PvP AWESOME!!! Joining a Corp Playing pvp with your NEW friends and HOpefully FAMILY if you stick around long enough 2nd. its a long term GAME progession is tied to how much YOU yes you the Player pick up and play YES you can sink money into it but a game like this youd have to be WEALTHY if you have PATIENTS and can actually put in time the game is actually fun the pve is fun and once you reach a certain point you can do an even harder pve mode which offer even greater boosted artifacts and all of it can be achieved by you just playing at your own PACE its much more fun with friends or a corp i personally had fun SOLO before Corp Days 3rd. its just a fun game they offer 3 star types you can have on your home star one is for PvP SOLOs Bluestar and the other is for PvP with groups Whitestar (corp mates) last one is for PvE Redstars which is where YOU the player will go to everyday if you choose to level up your planets ships etc by taking arts off dead decaying planets to bring home an…
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