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Stellar Initiative is a roguelike tower defense game where you land on the planet and use your orbit ship to deliver buildings and support you with fire. Complete missions, install new upgrades, discover powerful artifacts, and find the best strategy!

Stellar Initiative is a tower defense, rogue-like and strategy game developed and published by Five Head Games.
Released on May 27th 2024 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 351 reviews of which 278 were positive and 73 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7 or newer
  • Processor: 2.5Ghz or better
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Support for OpenGL 3.3
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Dec. 2024
Every mission start is harder than it has right to be. Feels like on higher difficulties you're playing a puzzle game to fit every piece correctly so the first enemies don't destroy your defenses and you're crippled for the rest of the mission. That said, the game is simple yet pretty well executed. There is variety of buildings, artifacts (run perks) are balanced and creative and factions quirks are cool to play with. I hope this game keeps getting updated for some time and more cool stuff added.
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Oct. 2024
Loved the game. It has exactly the right amount of strategy, min-maxing and RNG. Really fun to spend a few hours here and there. Definately worth for it's price.
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Oct. 2024
The game is fun, it's not expensive, and you can put it down between any of the missions and it'll save your progress for you to continue later. What's not to like about a great way to spend a spare half hour like this is? Two thumbs up.
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Oct. 2024
A great little tower defence. It would add a lot more replayability if you added these two new game mode: 1. Have a random mode that gives you random starting buildings. Probably need some system for making sure the player doesn't get completely screwed: You always get the generator, one random cheap building, others random from all the rest or something. 2. Have a mode where the player can choose which buildings they start with from all the buildings in the game so they can try out different loadouts.
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Aug. 2024
Imagine complaining about a game being too difficult when there are easier difficulty settings and you can unlock all the content by playing on the easier difficulties. This game is fun and unique. A roguelike tower defense game where you can only place towers within your signal range, and placing towers will increase that range. You cannot be afraid to use towers as disposable shields sometimes just to gain ground, and you must be willing to waste resources placing towers you know will be replaced by better ones. Levels have different rewards and you get better rewards for more challenging levels. Some unique level challenges could be mining resources, or saving energy to build a mission goal. The rewards consists of currency to unlock upgrades for your towers, and artifacts that give you passive buffs for the rest of the game. It looks as though there are over 100 artifacts in the game as of now, and the meta progression to unlock new content is as simple as trying out different artifacts. When you first start the game, there are 2 difficulties unlocked, and beating the hardest available difficulty unlocks your next difficulty. The difficulties have their own names like officer and captain, so I'm not sure what the "standard" difficulty is, but I think it's safe to say the "standard" difficulty would be one of the default ones unlocked, in which case the game is not nearly as difficult or intimidating as other reviews make it sound. If you decide to increase the difficulty, yes it gets more difficult, and you will probably lose, and perhaps you even need to get lucky with what artifacts you find in order to win. That's kinda normal for a lot of games and idk why people are upset about it. I would be upset if you had to beat the hardest difficulty to unlock things, but to the best of my knowledge, you don't. In other words, this game is accessible. It's not just a brutal game that punishes you. It's easy for people who want it to be easy, and challenging for those who want a challenge. Not to mention, this game is relatively cheap, and it's well polished as far as I can tell. No bugs, doesn't feel incomplete, it's intuitive and easy to understand. If you like roguelike. strategy, or tower defense games, give this one a try. I will surely play more when I have time.
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Stellar Initiative is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Stellar Initiative is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Stellar Initiative received 278 positive votes out of a total of 351 achieving a rating of 7.42.
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Stellar Initiative was developed and published by Five Head Games.

Stellar Initiative is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Stellar Initiative is not playable on MacOS.

Stellar Initiative is not playable on Linux.

Stellar Initiative is a single-player game.

Stellar Initiative does not currently offer any DLC.

Stellar Initiative does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Stellar Initiative does not support Steam Remote Play.

Stellar Initiative 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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Stellar Initiative
7.4
278
73
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Developer
Five Head Games
Publisher
Five Head Games
Release 27 May 2024
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