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Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.

Darkstar One is a action, space and sci-fi game developed by Ascaron Entertainment ltd. and published by Strategy First.
Released on February 13th 2008 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 578 reviews of which 477 were positive and 101 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Darkstar One into these genres:

Action Space Sci-fi Space Sim Simulation Open World Exploration RPG Singleplayer Spaceships

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
Minimum:
  • Supported OS: Windows XP (32 bit)
  • Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel or AMD processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Sound: DirectX compatible Sound Card
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible 128 MB graphics card with support for pixel/vertex shader 1.1 (GeForce 3 and above)
  • Hard Drive: 6 GB HD Space
Recommended:
  • Supported OS: Windows XP with SP2
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel or AMD processor
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Sound: DirectX compatible Sound Card
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible 256 MB graphics card with support for pixel/vertex shader 3.0 (GeForce 6/Radeon x1x00 and above)
  • Hard Drive: 7 GB HD Space

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
This is an old title I picked up during a steam sale on a "let's give it a go" purchase.... I really enjoyed the game despite it's age and linearity. The graphics are good but not great. Considering the age of the game they are perfectly fine and give it that nostalgic post Wing Commander feel that I remember from the 90's. The controls are simple and easy to pick up. i played with a mouse and this was easy to do everything required to win the game. Audio is really good and best of all it doesn't stand out and overpower the actual gameplay like some games do. Dialogue is good for the main story line, but can get quite repetitive later in the game, particularly when you jump into a system or leave the trade station. I mostly ignored it. The music is often a dead giveaway as you load into a system and the encounter music plays before it fully loads. Oh look, the pirate music, I had best hit "r" on entry and target the closest hostile..... :) The story is interesting at the beginning and has you flying over the entire galaxy map by the end. For me, there were 2 systems left undiscovered by the final battle and one of the rewards for completing the final battle is a key to one of the systems I missed. In fact you can't upgrade to level 20 until after the final battle as the last artifact is in that system that the key reward unlocks access to.. Dialogue is well done and just enough to move the story along and no more. There is some character development but not much. Fairly vanilla and obvious. As for the actual story and gameplay, it is very linear and the only reason that you do the side quests and bounty board missions is to unlock systems, get artifacts to level up, or to make money to upgrade in the early to mid game. Despite that, I had a lot of fun and it was quite relaxing. There were a few crashes to desktop which forces you back to the last save, but I have played some other much more recent games that have crashed more than this. Be careful of any scaling on your desktop as this can wreak havoc with the accuracy of your mouse inputs and prevent you from playing the game. Set scaling to 100% before you load the game. It will save a lot of heartache! Overall a good game that isn't too difficult and a great blast from the past. Grab it if you see it on sale!
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April 2025
Had this in my Steam library for ages, decided to play again. A surprisingly fun game, WW2 dogfights in space, but it does get repetitious since each system is about the same. Note that enemies scale with your level which can be a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it. Smuggling drugs, videogames, or androids is the best and most fun way to make money in the game; I was laughing at how tense it was hauling 100+ tons of illicit trade goods while aiming for the perfect trade station approach vector and working the afterburner to dodge all the cops buzzing around. Also nice to play a 2006 game that just works on Windows 10. I had a few crashes but only while tabbing through the menus on space stations, which was only a small annoyance because the game auto-saves when you dock anyway.
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Jan. 2025
Great game for chilling out. I bought it years ago on 360, then bought it again here for KB+M controls. Just enough systems to be entertaining, but not so deep that you're micromanaging diplomacy and trade routes. If I want that, then I'll just play one of the X series of games. I love 4X games as much as the next guy, but sometimes I just want gratuitous space dogfights and light trading.
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Nov. 2024
Who said the xbox controller never worked with this game??? It was the one thing the reason i never brought it. as guess what as soon as i started the game it found my controller i re - config the buttons and i am good to go. any one else out there wants too know yes xbox one controller works great. and with it on sale what a steel.
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Oct. 2024
Better than elite dangerous. I still have my old old CD and its original case, CD is heavily damaged caused I played this SO MUCH when I was a young little thing. NOTE: You might have to run a patch to get it working! Look it up!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Darkstar One is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam.

Darkstar One is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.79€ on Steam.

Darkstar One received 477 positive votes out of a total of 578 achieving a rating of 7.77.
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Darkstar One was developed by Ascaron Entertainment ltd. and published by Strategy First.

Darkstar One is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Darkstar One is not playable on MacOS.

Darkstar One is not playable on Linux.

Darkstar One is a single-player game.

Darkstar One does not currently offer any DLC.

Darkstar One does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Darkstar One does not support Steam Remote Play.

Darkstar One is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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8.79€
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Ascaron Entertainment ltd.
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Strategy First
Release 13 Feb 2008
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