Starling

Starling

Cozymos · January 25, 2025 · Casual, Singleplayer, Exploration, Farming Sim, Adventure

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Mostly Positive79% · 56 📈 Making a comeback 89%
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About Starling

✦ AI summary

Starling is a student-developed third-person exploration game where you gather resources across the galaxy to rebuild your ruined space station and supply your home planet. Jetpack through alien worlds to mine, fish, and harvest materials, then use them to upgrade your base, craft gear, and unlock cosmetics for your adorable companion creatures.


Starling
is a student-developed third-person base-building exploration game. As an employee of Starling Corp., your mission is to gather resources from across the galaxy and send it back to the corporation to supply your home planet with resources essential for survival.

These cute creatures will guide and accompany you throughout your journey.
Finding legendary items might unlock cosmetic for your new cosmic friends!

  • Explore the world around you using your jetpack
  • Delve into deep mines to extract valuable minerals
  • Chop down alien trees for wood
  • Fish in serene waters to secure essential supplies
  • Upgrade your tools to access more resources
Use these resources to upgrade your gear, repair your base, craft consumables and more!

A catastrophic space incident has left your once-thriving space station in ruins, its fragments scattered across the galaxy.
Now, it’s up to you to rebuild your base.
By repairing various stations in your spaceship, you will unlock the ability to:
  • Smelt ores and refine resources
  • Craft essential items for progression
  • Trade goods with the Starling Corp.
  • Grow crops for supplies and buffs
  • Customize your spacesuit at the cosmetic station

Starling — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Starling is a charming, peaceful exploration game set in space where players gather resources and rebuild their base with the help of adorable alien creatures, offering a satisfying gameplay loop that combines mining, fishing, and crafting in a cozy atmosphere. However, players note the game feels incomplete, with only two planets, limited content that can be exhausted in a few hours, technical issues like fps drops and no resolution settings, occasional clunky controls, and unclear UI for building and progression.

Recommended Jul 15, 2025
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Recommended Sep 13, 2026
Starling is a really charming little exploration game that I liked because of how peaceful its space setting feels. I play as an employee of Starling Corp. whose job is to gather resources from different worlds, but after a disaster leaves my space station in ruins, I have to rebuild my base with the help of some adorable alien creatures. I enjoyed how the game combines resource gathering and exploration with a cozy atmosphere. The exploration is my favorite part. I can use a jetpack to travel around the world, mine for minerals, chop down alien trees and fish in calmer areas. I liked that these activities are not just random distractions. They all feed into the larger process of repairing my base and improving my equipment. It creates a satisfying loop where exploring gives me materials, and those materials gradually open up more things to do. Base building is another strong point. I can repair different stations inside the spaceship and unlock functions for refining materials, crafting items and growing crops. I enjoyed watching the ruined station slowly become more useful because it gives the adventure a clear sense of progress. The base feels like something I am rebuilding ra…
Recommended Oct 20, 2025
this game is so relaxing and fun. i don't know how it isn't famous. A word to the dev u r doing very well keep going please
Recommended Apr 12, 2025
El juego es entretenido, hay que decirlo porque es una realidad. Necesita mejorar muchas cosas, por ejemplo el aspecto de que no se pueda ajustar la resolución. Hay zonas del juego con una caída de fps demasiado brutal como para que no se pueda modificar ese aspecto. Por otro lado, el juego obviamente está en desarrollo, porque solo hay dos planetas, no puedes hacer todas las recetas que necesitas y en poco más de unas horas estás en el " final " del juego sin nada que poder hacer más que completar el acuario En la zona de mercado aparecen objetos para comprar, pero no tienes dinero ni forma de conseguirlo para poder hacerlo No hay enemigos como tal, salvo unas abejas molestas El laser está bastante mal hecho, su so es básicamente para eliminar las colmenas de abejas y picar unas rocas pequeñas y en el caso de lo primero, el sistema de apuntado y disparo necesita una mejora. En resumen, un juego visualmente muy bonito, con un gran potencial pero que le falta mucho por desarrollar. The game is entertaining, it must be said because it is a reality. It needs to improve a lot of things, for example the aspect of not being able to adjust the resolution. There are areas of the gam…
Recommended Mar 26, 2025
Weird little game. feels a little clunky. actions aren't very smooth. Esc button should close out of menus. Little robot follower lays on the ground a lot, I don't know if that's intentional or not. Also noticed what looked like him crying after I made my pickaxe, it was kinda sad. may play more at some point.
Recommended Mar 13, 2025
Very pretty game but was very confused on how or where to build. Good job for a first game though!

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