Stars Reach Guides

• Stars Reach Alien Puzzles: Artifacts With No Instructions

  Update 8.4.0 added alien artifact puzzles that ship deliberately without instructions. What is documented, and why reliable walkthroughs are thin.

• Stars Reach Beginner Guide: Your First Session on Haven

  A first-session route through Stars Reach: the stat split you cannot redo, the optional Haven missions worth doing, and how to leave the starter moon.

• Stars Reach Controls, Camera and Keybinds

  Default keybinds, the third-person camera, controller support and the display settings worth changing first in Stars Reach.

• The Corruption in Stars Reach: What It Is and How It Spreads

  Update 8.4.0 added the Corruption — a hive mind that seeds planets with spore colonies. Its forms, how it spreads, and why clearing a world takes a group.

• Stars Reach Economy: Klaatu, Vendors and Trading

  How money works in Stars Reach — Klaatu, the Business skill gate on vendors, local goods markets, and why the best items are made by players.

• Stars Reach on Console, Mac, Linux and Steam Deck

  Is Stars Reach on PS5, Xbox, Mac, Linux or Steam Deck? The Steam store page lists Windows only. What is confirmed, what is absent, and what runs anyway.

• Stars Reach Founders Packs and Steam Keys Explained

  Every documented way to get into Stars Reach: the $29.99 Steam purchase, the three Founders Packs, and what a $30+ Kickstarter pledge included.

• Stars Reach Playtests, Wipes and the Road to Early Access

  The Stars Reach playtest programme ended 12 August 2026. A dated history of the alpha, the wipes, and what wipe policy looks like now in Early Access.

• Is There PvP in Stars Reach? It Depends on the World

  Stars Reach has no global PvP switch. Whoever governs a planet sets its laws, including whether it is PvP-enabled or a protected roleplay haven.

• Stars Reach Ranger Guide: Pathfinder, Camps, Makers

  The Ranger is the frontier profession: survey worlds with the Pathfinder, plant camps and Re-Life stations, and clear Makers before anyone can settle.

• Stars Reach vs No Man's Sky and the 2026 Sandbox MMOs

  How Stars Reach differs from No Man's Sky, Star Wars Galaxies and the other sandbox MMOs people compare it to — persistence, professions and player count.