- Trading Cards and badges added! - 14 July 2026
Greetings, Captains! Some members of the community have expressed that they would love to have trading cards and badges for Between the Stars, so we've added them to the game! You can now collect a total of 5 trading cards, 1 badge, 4 profile backgrounds and 5 emoticons of different rarities! And if you don't have Between the Stars yet, you can get the game with a 67% discount until July 27.
- Patch v1.0.0.9 - 6 October 2025
This patch fixes a security vulnerability discovered in the Unity engine. You can find more details here: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-59489
- Patch v1.0.0.7 - 27 August 2024
Fixed an issue that prevented aiming with the mouse when using a joystick or gamepad. With this fix, the game can now be played with a HOMAS (Joystick + Mouse) configuration. We have corrected some text errors.
- Patch v1.0.0.6 - 22 May 2024
Fixed a bug that could cause a softlock in the main menu when trying to start a game or load an existing one. Reduced by 33% the life of the shield generators of the ship of the mission "The Counterattack". Reduced the armament of the enemy ship in "The Counterattack" mission. Fixed several text errors.
- Patch v1.0.0.5 - 29 April 2024
Fixed a bug that could cause a softlock in the main campaign if the player exited the game just after finishing the Security Protocol mission. Fixed a bug that could cause the "Ludopath" attribute to never be obtained. The item Exobacillus Samples is now researchable. A new event has been added that ends a possible incomplete ending of the "Biochemistry" side event line. Now the player's mercenary ships do not take damage when the player has docked at a station. Fixed a number of text errors.
- Patch v1.0.0.4 - 13 March 2024
Fixed a softlock in mission 306 (Clandestine Meeting). Fixed a bug that caused that the "Defective delivery" achievement could not be obtained. We have fixed a bug that caused that increasing the level of a crew member several times would add more points than it should. We have fixed a bug that caused that in some cases the "Breaking the Ice" achievement was not given. Many text errors have been fixed.
- The final version is now available! - 7 March 2024
Greetings, Captains! The final version of Between the Stars is here, and with it comes some new additions. We have also fixed some outstanding bugs, so this will be the most polished experience of the game. The full campaign features over 160 main events, but also over 200 side quests. You have 25 ships to choose from, and you can customize them with the numerous available weapons and abilities. The final moment has arrived: rise up against the Children of the Sun and save the galaxy! https://store.steampowered.com/app/727130/Between_the_Stars/ Changelog We've added a new module: the Automatic Repair System. This module grants the ability to use repair kits during combat to repair the ship. The Arcade now has additional difficulty levels. The Arcade increases in difficulty when you win at it. When you win at the Arcade, you obtain a credits reward. The reward gets higher as you level up…
- Launch Date Announcement - 5 February 2024
Greetings, Captains! We are happy to announce that on March 7th Between the Stars will leave Early Access. Currently, we are working hard to polish the game and fix as many bugs as possible. Thank you very much to all of you who have submitted bug reports, they have been a great help to make Between the Stars a better game. What to expect from version 1.0? Full campaign: Interplanetary peace is in danger and only a captain can save it. Take on the Children of the Sun through more than 160 main events and restore peace to the Galaxy. Live your own adventure: Meet different characters and discover the wild adventures that await you in more than 200 side events. Manage your resources: Obtain the 25 available ships and numerous weapons and abilities. Manage your crew wisely, and you will be able to overcome any challenge. Live the experience more polished than ever: During the last months w…
- Patch - v0.7.2 - 21 November 2023
We have fixed a bug that caused two Blaze to appear when loading the "Tails or Heads" mission. Increased the hull points of Blaze's ship in the "Tails or Heads" mission. We have fixed a bug in the conditions of the Sabotage mission (#298). We have fixed a bug that could occur in the mission "Breadcrumbs" and that caused the game to run out of main missions and not be able to advance in the storyline. We have fixed a bug in the main event #249 that caused buttons related to decisions that the player has not taken to be displayed. We fixed a bug that allowed the player to destroy the Hydra station. We have fixed a text error in Sado Salik's bounty hunter mission that mentioned a man when it was talking about a woman in previous texts. We have fixed a bug in the First Step event that caused texts to appear that were not related to the choice the player had made. Numerous spelling errors ha…
- Patch - v0.7.1 - 27 October 2023
We've fixed a bug that caused some voice clips to play the male Captain's voice while playing with the female Captain. We've fixed a bug that caused pages to be turned in pairs when examining the item Excerpt from Franz Clifford's Journal. Fixed a bug that caused mercenary ships to reset when equipping them unless the game was saved and reloaded. Fixed a bug that could cause a softlock during the final event. Fixed a bug that caused a softlock when trying to assign a mission in a sector where all zones had events assigned to them. Fixed a bug that caused already dead characters to appear in the Sabotage event. Fixed a bug that caused the "Make a Run for it" achievement to not be given. Fixed a bug that caused the "Surprise, Surprise!" achievement to be given by mistake. We've fixed a possible softlock in the Security Protocol mission. We've fixed several text errors.
- Chapter VI: Solar Siege, now available! - 19 October 2023
Greetings, Captains! We know it's been a long wait, but the final chapter of the main campaign of Between the Stars is finally available! In this chapter you will experience the conclusion of the story through more than 50 new events and quests, new music themes composed for the occasion, and more than fifty brand new illustrations for this chapter. Now that the main story is finished, we will continue working to improve some existing aspects of the game before the final release of version 1.0. Time to get back to your ships, and experience the conclusion to the war against the Children of the Sun! https://store.steampowered.com/app/727130/Between_the_Stars/ Change Log More than 50 new missions and main events. More than 800 new dubbed lines of dialogue. A new playable ship. 86 new illustrations have been added for the events and missions of the new chapter. Some of the old illustration…
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b12 - 6 October 2023
Greetings captains! The development of chapter 6 is almost finished. We still need to add a few more illustrations and fix some bugs and performance issues. We plan to release the public version in a couple of weeks. Thank you for your support! Change Log Beta Patch - v0.7.0b12 50 new illustrations have been added for the events and missions of the new chapter. Some more illustrations for the final events still need to be added. Some of the old illustrations have been modified. Two new music themes have been added for the final missions. Fixed a bug that caused the Captain to be assigned more points than available for their level. Fixed a bug that caused automatic weapons to fire when a battle was paused. Fixed a bug that caused links to neighboring sectors in the star map not to display correctly. Several errors in the text have been fixed. Locations have been updated.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b11 - 31 August 2023
Greetings captains! The development of Chapter 6 is well underway. Currently we only need to add the music, which is being composed, and several illustrations for the new events. Once this is done, we will release the update publicly. Thank you very much for your patience! Change Log Beta Patch - v0.7.0b11 We have created a new animation for combat dice rolls. Sheep is now played by another voice actor. We have replaced all the audios of Sheep with the new ones. Hacked ships in Beyond the Sun mission are now marked as allies. We have modified the battle in mission Journey's End and more enemy ships have been added. We have improved the visual effects of the destruction of the stations. We have added new illustrations in various events. We have added a glitch effect in the interface that is triggered when Hydra goes out of control. We have fixed several text errors.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b10 - 11 August 2023
A new animation has been created for dice rolls. Now, the die with the highest value is highlighted to avoid confusion and doubts about the result of the roll. We have made improvements in the final cutscenes of the game. We have corrected some texts.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b9 - 8 August 2023
We have added a new defensive system: the AM-380 Anti-Mine Cannon is an anti-aircraft defense system capable of destroying explosive mines. When there are no mines nearby, the AM-380 causes light damage to enemy ships within shot. Description has been added to the Lucky attribute. We have fixed a bug that caused the automatic targeting system to stop working when RB was held down using a controller. We have fixed a bug that caused two of the Genesis defensive weapons to be placed on the wrong sides of the ship. Now when HYDRA is activated the power of the engines, weapons and shields goes up to maximum. We have cut some of the voice dialogs of the mission Mortal Enemies in order to make it not excessively long. We have fixed a bug that caused lasers to hit a few meters away from enemy ships. We have reduced the probability of enemies to equip weapons capable of stunning the player. We h…
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b8 - 26 July 2023
A new system has been added: Electromagnetic Shielding Generator. It offers the ability Electromagnetic Shielding which makes the ship resistant to any electromagnetic pulse. We have fixed a softlock in the Prodigal Son mission. We have fixed some text errors.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b7 - 21 July 2023
We have reduced the difficulty of the mission Prodigal Son. Enemies can no longer equip the SB-87 Shield Booster system. The damage caused by enemies to the player has been reduced by 20%. To avoid possible softlocks in the final event, now it is not possible to suffer casualties in the space combats of the missions Moral Enemies and Beyond the Sun. We have added Faulknen's voice audios. We have added a missing voice audio of the male engineer. With this patch all new radio transmissions should have voice audio. We have fixed a graphical issue that caused a transparent square to appear behind the letters of some texts on small screen resolutions. The initial cinematic of the mission Mortal Enemies has been improved. Many text errors have been corrected.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b6 - 13 July 2023
Hit detection is now much more accurate and the detection issues that were experienced previously should have been fixed. We have added checkpoints in the Mortal Enemies, Beyond the Sun and Journey's End missions so that the player does not have to restart from the beginning of Mortal Enemies if killed during one of these events. We have fixed a bug that caused the Mortal Enemies mission to start combat prematurely. We have fixed a bug in the mission Prodigal Son that caused the event to start when docking at the sector station. We have fixed numerous text errors.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b5 - 7 July 2023
We have fixed a bug that allowed the player to go to the final battle sector without the Genesis, which caused a softlock when playing the mission. Now you must have the Genesis and eight crew members to start the final mission. We have fixed a bug that caused missiles not hitting the cannons that have to be destroyed in the Tacet Stella mission. We have fixed a bug that caused that the Decoded Eye item couldn't be inspected. We have fixed a bug that allowed the player to enter the inventory and the star map while being in the internal ship's events menu. We have fixed a bug that caused some crew members to not die during text events. We have fixed a bug that caused crew members to not appear wearing the Children of the Sun uniform in Horus station missions. Numerous text errors have been fixed.
- Beta Patch - v0.7.0b4 - 28 June 2023
We have fixed a softlock in the mission Departure. We have fixed a softlock in the mission Mortal Enemies. We have fixed a bug that caused stations not to appear in the first sectors of the game. We have fixed a bug that caused that in Sol, when doing the mission Mortal Enemies, one of the final missions of chapter 5 could appear. We have fixed a bug that caused two stations to appear in Tacet Stella and Sol. We have fixed a bug that caused that when adding another wingman in a slot where there was already another one, the original wingman was not destroyed, so the player could add with infinite wingmen using this exploit. Main missions now always appear first in the objectives list at the top right of the screen. We have added new Data voice audios. We have added new Patches voice audios. We have added new Thompson voice audios and replaced the old voice audios. Thompson is now played…
