Starcom: Unknown Space

Starcom: Unknown Space

Wx3 Labs, LLC · September 2, 2024 · Space, Exploration, Open World, Space Sim, Action RPG

Buy Starcom: Unknown Space from GOG at $17.49 — the cheapest of 3 stores we compare. The cheapest Starcom: Unknown Space key from a keyshop is $32.34 at CJS CD Keys.

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Where to buy Starcom: Unknown Space — official stores

GOG
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Standard Edition · DRM-Free
-30%
$17.49
$24.99
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Steam
Standard Edition · Steam
$24.99
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Cheapest Starcom: Unknown Space keys — keyshops

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Starcom: Unknown Space price by region

Starcom: Unknown Space costs $12.49 in Georgia (USD), £14.69 in the United Kingdom, €17.15 in Europe (EUR), $17.49 in the United States, CA$22.75 in Canada, NZ$25.19 in New Zealand, A$25.55 in Australia, R$51.79 in Brazil and zł80.49 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Starcom: Unknown Space offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $12.49 −30% $12.49 $32.34 3
United Kingdom £14.69 −30% £14.69 £24.48 3
Europe (EUR) €17.15 −30% €17.15 — 2
United Statesyour region $17.49 −30% $17.49 $32.34 3
Canada CA$22.75 −30% CA$22.75 — 2
New Zealand NZ$25.19 −30% NZ$25.19 — 2
Australia A$25.55 −30% A$25.55 — 2
Brazil R$51.79 −30% R$51.79 — 2
Poland zł80.49 −30% zł80.49 — 2

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Starcom: Unknown Space

✦ AI summary

Explore a vast open-world galaxy with over a hundred star systems, build your custom starship from scratch, and engage in tactical combat against alien factions while uncovering mysteries and ancient threats. Master a deep tech tree, forge diplomatic alliances or rivalries, and investigate 230+ unique anomalies across undiscovered worlds filled with lost artifacts and strange phenomena.

Starcom: Unknown Space is an action adventure RPG of space exploration, ship building and fast-paced tactical combat. Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.

Explore



Explore a fully-open world universe with over a hundred star systems filled with undiscovered planets, mysterious artifacts, lost derelicts, and strange phenomena. Over 230 anomalies to investigate, each uniquely illustrated and with their own story.

Build Your Starship



Transform your small scout ship into a powerful starship of your own design with an innovative shipbuilding system. Make a deep space explorer, a fast strike craft, or an armor-leaden battlecruiser. Experiment with different designs and share your blueprints with others.

Discover & Research



Every new scientific discovery grants Research Points allowing you to unlock new modules and enhancements with a deep technology research tree. Choose techs that favor your preferred gameplay style: Upgrade your plasma cannons or unlock long range missiles? Better armor or shields? Unlock crew specializations first or a larger hull?

Make Allies & Enemies



The galaxy is full of unique alien factions each with their own motives. Decide who you will trust, trade with, hire, or vaporize.

More Features:


  • 60+ main story and side-quest missions to discover
  • Train your command crew to improve their skills and ship management bonuses
  • Smart autopilot to known locations, discover fast-travel gateways to distant systems, or venture into the unknown void
  • Alien factions will change their disposition and behavior depending on your actions
  • Collect, analyze, and trade over 100 different artifacts
  • Detailed, searchable ship log of every encounter and interaction
  • Save anywhere outside combat

Fans of Starcom: Nexus should know that the overall game mechanics have remained similar (with a lot of improvements), this is not a direct sequel-- it is a brand new story. New players will not need to be familiar with the plot of Starcom: Nexus to jump right in.

Starcom: Unknown Space — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Starcom: Unknown Space is a nostalgic exploration game that successfully captures the spirit of classic space titles like StarFlight and Star Control, with compelling storytelling, tight controls, and flexible ship automation that appeals to genre fans. While most players praise the engaging writing, puzzle-focused exploration, and focused narrative design, some find the game tedious with unclear quest objectives, disappearing UI elements, and frustrations in piecing together information.

Recommended Sep 15, 2026
Having grown up playing the StarFlight and Star Control franchises, I loved getting back into this style of game. The story is compelling, the gameplay is tight, controls are intuitive, and yet you have just the right amount of starship automation freedom to play the game exactly the way you want from fully manual to fully automated. While it is an "Open World", almost every thing and every choice helps push the main story along, there's not really any "fluff" added to this game so you always stay focused on why you're there and never get bored. I'm truly hoping they add another to the franchise soon. If you love space, action, adventure, exploration, and great storytelling, I highly recommend checking this game and the original out.
5 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 20, 2026
Space game focused on exploration and anomalies. Like Star Trek stories and well done. Expect a lot of bread crumbs and hair pulling frustrations to piece puzzles :)
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 16, 2026
Amazing game, can't stop playing it. Takes me back to Star Flight 2 and so many other space games I loved. To the developer, well done.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 17, 2026
Nice little game. Must play for Star Control fans
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
Absolutely fantastic exploration game. It really encourages you to think a bit to solve things and to actually explore. Really great writing as well. 10/10.
Not recommended Sep 15, 2026
meh, I really wanted to like this game, but it sucks....trying to figure out whats going on and whos who is tedious, huds vanish, no real cluse wtf is going on mission-wise, gotta turbo clear a bunch of useless text to open quests, so man annoyances. BUT base game design had some potential. BUT it turns out the best build is a bunch of fixed guns targeted out your arse and super speed, If you want to run around farting on dude intergalactically, this is the game for you. Otherwise its a friggen epic fail b/c it had so much potential.

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