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Starblast is a multiplayer survival shooter game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by Neuronality and was released on November 8, 2017. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.

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78%Audience ScoreBased on 426 reviews
gameplay13 positive mentions
monetization14 negative mentions

  • Engaging and addictive gameplay with multiple game modes including team mode, survival, invasion, and pro deathmatch.
  • Supports varied playstyles with a large ship upgrade tree and customization options, offering depth beyond typical .io games.
  • Active community and events with good developer responsiveness in early stages and availability of free browser version.
  • Severe balance issues, especially with team mode, including overpowering ships, spawn camping, and unbalanced upgrades.
  • Toxic and aggressive community with prevalent cheating, griefing, and lack of adequate moderation or anti-cheat measures.
  • Poor technical performance including frequent lag, server instability, and lack of support or updates, especially for non-Windows platforms.
  • gameplay

    31 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    42% positive mentions, 48% neutral mentions, 10% negative mentions

    The gameplay is generally praised for its straightforward, fast-paced arcade-style mechanics that reward skill and teamwork across multiple engaging game modes. While its simplicity allows for quick, accessible sessions and an enjoyable cooperative experience, some players find issues with grinding, unbalanced matchmaking, and sporadic bugs that can hinder solo play. Overall, the blend of competitive and casual elements, coupled with a tight-knit community, makes the gameplay engaging despite occasional frustrations.

    • “It's a great gameplay loop that rewards skills and teamwork.”
    • “Starblast consists of 4 core game-modes: team deathmatch, survival mode, invasion, and pro deathmatch with 2 sub-game-modes: modding space and custom games. Each game-mode features a different objective with the same easy-to-learn core mechanics, allowing for games to be simple yet exciting every time, while also requiring minimal prior experience.”
    • “The fast, fun gameplay, the cool 3D graphics, satisfying character upgrades, awesome sounds, cooperative team play!”
    • “Matches also take forever with no real climax. It has a runaway leader problem with no catch-up mechanics.”
    • “Seriously unfair gameplay compared to being a novice, a pro, even when you know what to do, you still can't do much. Do not buy this just because of how it looks, you will regret it, trust me.”
    • “Maybe more fun if you actually played co-op with someone but solo gameplay sucks.”
  • graphics

    18 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    39% positive mentions, 44% neutral mentions, 17% negative mentions

    The graphics are generally considered simplistic and retro, with many users noting low-quality 2D visuals that feel outdated for a PC game. However, some praise the game’s visuals as fitting for its genre, highlighting enjoyable and competitive graphics, while others appreciate the fast, polished 3D elements and overall good design relative to similar games. Overall, the graphics are seen as adequate but not impressive, dependent on player expectations.

    • “Great graphics and very competitive.”
    • “The fast fun gameplay, the cool 3D graphics, satisfying character upgrades, awesome sounds, cooperative team play!”
    • “The soundtrack is nice, the visuals are very good in my opinion, the server browser or 'galaxy map' is also really cool.”
    • “While there are options to change the resolution for the mobile app, all this does is scale up the simplistic low quality vector art assets used to make the mobile app, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality.”
    • “The mobile app features somewhat lazy, simplistic 'retro' looking 2D graphics, of the type you normally expect to see in low effort flash/browser games and mobile apps.”
    • “Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing.”
  • monetization

    16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    19% positive mentions, -7% neutral mentions, 88% negative mentions

    Monetization for this game hinges on an ad-supported free browser or mobile version versus a paid Steam version that removes ads and adds features like customization, private servers, and custom matches. While the free version is fully playable, many users purchase the Steam edition primarily to avoid frequent advertisements, citing it as a reasonable cost for an improved, ad-free experience. However, some view the Steam release as a cash grab from mobile developers, though its added features and ad removal are generally appreciated.

    • “The Steam edition offers several additional features such as ship customization, private servers, beta features, and most importantly, no ads.”
    • “The game is solid and playable for free on a browser. Playing on Steam mainly benefits you by removing ads, which can also be blocked with an adblocker.”
    • “The recent survival mode update could encourage more competitive gameplay by allowing more raid fights against tier 7 ships, balancing the play experience.”
    • “Starblast is a mobile app dumped on Steam as if it were a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs (although also available free as a browser game).”
    • “It is free with limited features, but infested with ads.”
    • “Played many hours on Chrome for free; purchased on Steam to avoid advertisements and lockups from using adblocker, but if you don't suck, they will focus on you.”
  • grinding

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is generally seen as tedious and monotonous, often hindered by hostile players causing frustration. However, new game modes and mechanics have been introduced to reduce or eliminate the repetitiveness of mining, though some challenges like spawn killing and balancing team versus solo play remain.

    • “I just wish there was a solution to the monotonous task of grinding for 10 minutes, hindered by the confrontation of a trigger-happy shadow-x3, who decided you were more useful to him as a smoking void in the middle of space.”
    • “Mining for the most part is tedious to the point you just want to click log off.”
    • “It is a bit hard; like one minute you're farming gems and being happy, but another time you're being spawn killed and your progress goes back 1. It's kind of chance if you have fun or not.”
  • humor

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is characterized by chaotic and often juvenile player interactions, leading to both amusing and frustrating moments. While some find the comedic chaos entertaining, others are put off by disruptive behavior and negative community dynamics.

    • “You'll either be running for your life, or laughing as you blast other players into oblivion.”
    • “Amazing game, community is trash but it's funny.”
  • music

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    75% positive mentions, 25% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's music, especially the memorable intro song, is highly praised for its chilling and immersive effect. The soundtrack is well-received and complements the visuals nicely, enhancing the overall experience.

    • “The intro song is playing in my brain; it gives me chills every time I start the game.”
    • “The music is also amazing, and I have had no lag or connection problems ever.”
    • “The soundtrack is nice, the visuals are very good in my opinion, and the server browser or "galaxy map" is also really cool.”
  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    33% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 67% negative mentions

    The game is generally stable with few glitches and simple, responsive controls; however, its long stagnation and lack of updates have led to various balance issues, dead or buggy game modes, and difficulties finding active players, negatively impacting overall stability and enjoyment.

    • “Long time player here. The game was fun when I started but the current complete lack of updates is not fun and makes the game dry. The only game mode with any sort of real life outside of the mods is team, but that mode suffers from the current meta which is horridly unbalanced, spamming the Oddy with healers. Healing is already powerful, and the Oddy, the strongest ship in the game, becomes immortal when backed up by a healing Oddy. Survival's gem drop is non-existent; invasion is highly repetitive and not doable without a good team, which is hard to find; PDM suffers from the current point system and how easy it is to cheese; U-series is one shot one kill, which isn't appealing to me personally; Alien Intrusion has issues with lack of players and aliens becoming too powerful; Nautic series is an unbalanced mess; Battle Royal is dead and unchanged for over 3 years; Starblast Racing Champion is dead and unpopular; Destroy the Mothership isn't fun unless the players are good; Capture the Flag is a buggy mess; Rumble suffers from bad maps; multi-class ship tree has major issues with bouncing lasers, which Survival also suffers from; Starblast Dueling Championship suffers from lack of players and isn't popular outside the Starblast Discord.”
  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users highlight the story as engaging and enriched by cooperative and competitive multiplayer experiences, enhancing the overall narrative through player interactions.

  • atmosphere

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's competitive setting of spaceships battling for gems creates an intense and engaging atmosphere that keeps players consistently excited and immersed.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game runs smoothly with stable performance, though its visual quality is modest and doesn't significantly improve beyond its web version. Overall, optimization is adequate but not particularly advanced.

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Starblast is a survival shooter game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Starblast include free to play, science, indie, 2d, difficult and others.

Starblast is available on PC, Web Browser, Mac OS, Phone and others.

Starblast was released on November 8, 2017.

Starblast was developed by Neuronality.

Starblast has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Starblast for its gameplay but disliked it for its monetization.

Starblast is a multiplayer game with local co-op support.

Similar games include Awesomenauts, Boom Slingers, ShellShock Live, Strinova, Space Wars: Interstellar Empires and others.