StellarHub

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"StellarHub" is a single-player strategy game with metroidvania-style action-adventure elements, offering pretty visuals and taking about 2 hours to beat. As the Captain of a space station, you build a functional starbase using a variety of modules and manage a crew with unique skills, abilities, and needs. Choose wisely, as each module requires resources, time, energy, and oxygen. Wishlist now on Steam.

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Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

48%

Audience ScoreBased on 109 reviews

gameplay6 positive mentions

stability7 negative mentions

The game features a unique concept of managing a space station, which can be engaging and fun for players who enjoy strategy and simulation games.
The graphics are visually appealing, with nice animations and a well-designed interface that enhances the overall experience.
The developers are responsive to community feedback and have shown commitment to fixing bugs and improving the game over time.

The user interface is cumbersome and unintuitive, making it difficult to manage crew assignments and tasks effectively.
The game suffers from numerous bugs and crashes, which can significantly hinder gameplay and lead to frustration.
The tutorial is lacking in depth, failing to adequately explain game mechanics, which can leave new players confused and overwhelmed.

gameplay
37 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
16%
76%
8%
The gameplay is a mix of simulation and management set in a sci-fi environment, featuring micromanagement and grid-based construction mechanics that some players find shallow and confusing. While the game offers a relaxing experience with a soothing soundtrack and engaging sound effects, many users recommend waiting for patches to address unfinished mechanics and balancing issues before purchasing. Overall, it appeals to fans of space sims but may leave others wanting more depth and polish.
- “The gameplay is pretty much a simulation of working, living, and producing goods in space while dealing with random events and daily human needs.”
- “If you like key shortcuts as much as I do, since they make gameplay smoother and easier to handle, then be amazed.”
- “Fun gameplay, nice visuals, and a great game for multiple plays.”
- “In general, wait for the gameplay patch; only then can you buy. I do not recommend it yet!”
- “Bug-free as far as I can tell, but there are way too many unfinished mechanics and pretty bad balancing.”
- “That said, the mechanics are rather shallow and most possibilities are exhausted quite quickly.”
graphics
23 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
52%
35%
13%
The graphics of the game receive mixed reviews, with some players praising the appealing visuals and contemporary design that align well with other base-building games. However, others criticize the reliance on outdated 2D pixel art, which lacks depth and quality, and note that resolution adjustments do not significantly enhance the graphics. Overall, while some find the graphics enjoyable and fitting for the game's theme, others feel they fall short of modern standards.
- “The visuals are very appealing.”
- “Graphics and art style is excellent, sound and music enjoyable.”
- “Stellarhub's graphics are really rather good.”
- “From all accounts, the people who could get this to work found what looked like a deep and interesting space station builder was, in fact, as bad as the shoddy 2D pixel visuals.”
- “A choice was made to use obsolete, decades-old retro pixel art as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics.”
- “While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality.”
story
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
30%
40%
30%
The game's story is primarily conveyed through a series of tutorial missions and contracts that serve as a basic campaign, but players feel it lacks depth and engagement. While the tutorials effectively introduce gameplay mechanics, they are criticized for poor grammar and excessive text, leaving players wanting a more cohesive narrative and additional content to sustain long-term interest. Overall, the story aspect is seen as underdeveloped, with a call for more interactive elements and a clearer overarching goal.
- “Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”
- “The game comprises two tutorials set in the solar system, six missions of varying difficulty and size in other star systems, and a random system mode.”
- “More interaction, more story, a campaign or two maybe; the game needs more.”
- “The game offers a tutorial to help you get into the game, but the missions that can be considered the campaign are more just there to work as a tutorial and slowly ease you into the game, making it feel more like a simulator than a story-driven experience.”
- “More interaction, more story, a campaign or two maybe; the game needs more depth in its narrative.”
- “The tutorials do a reasonable job of introducing the basics, though some of the grammar is terrible, and it's not yet clear to me whether there's a set goal in each of the system missions or whether they're just more structured sandbox modes.”
stability
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
13%
88%
The game's stability is currently a significant issue, with numerous users reporting extensive bugs and poor controls, leading to a frustrating gameplay experience. While the developers are actively addressing these problems and have plans for future updates, many players advise against purchasing until the game is more stable.
- “If you like your games bug-free and complete, I wouldn't buy just yet, but the developers are engaged and seem to be addressing all the smaller issues very quickly, with more updates planned for the future.”
- “It's also incredibly buggy beyond just the game-breaking overscan problem that the developer refuses to fix.”
- “It's extremely buggy and a chore to play.”
- “At the moment, this game is buggy as hell.”
music
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
57%
43%
The music in the game is widely praised for its soothing and enjoyable soundtrack, which complements the gameplay's slower pace. Players appreciate the ability to customize volume settings for both music and sound effects, enhancing the overall experience. The combination of excellent graphics and a lovely soundtrack creates a pleasant atmosphere for players.
- “Stellarhub's soundtrack is lovely.”
- “The excellent soundtrack and pretty graphics give you something nice to watch and listen to while you play.”
- “I relaxed for 5 minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”
- “The game has a soothing soundtrack that really sets the pace for the gameplay itself; it may not be a fast pace, but then again this isn’t a fast-paced kind of game.”
- “On the setting side of things, we have volume control of the music and sound effects so you can customize them to your liking.”
replayability
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
33%
17%
50%
The game's replayability is mixed; while it offers some challenge and fun for fans of space management and base building genres, it suffers from limited customization options in its random mode, which detracts from the overall experience. Improvements in random level generation and AI behavior could enhance replayability significantly.
- “The challenge is there, as is the replayability.”
- “No, no start over because replayability is a must!”
- “The random mode doesn't allow any configuration or selection of parameters, which is a shame; being able to tailor the level to your liking would be a big benefit to replayability.”
- “The game is let down a little by poor grammar and some issues, particularly with recalcitrant AI, and replayability could be improved with a couple of tweaks to the random level generation.”
- “No, no, start over because replayability is a must!”
grinding
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Users find the grinding aspect of Stellarhub 2.0 to be excessively tedious and poorly designed, with micromanagement tasks becoming a chore rather than an enjoyable experience. The need to locate and activate individual modules and manage crew health adds to the frustration, highlighting a lack of streamlined features that could enhance gameplay.
- “It's fine in practice, but poorly thought out, awfully tedious management and quite frankly a chore more than fun.”
- “Having to find all these modules and one by one activate them is tedious; a defense control to activate all or selected defenses would be a massive improvement here.”
- “Stellarhub 2.0 lacks some basic features that just make it too tedious for me to enjoy.”
humor
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game is highlighted by its amusing graphics and sound effects, which, while somewhat limited, contribute to an overall entertaining experience. Players appreciate the game's ability to deliver humor despite its simplicity, making it a top choice at a good price.
- “The graphics are funny; for a simple game, they have managed to make it look great.”
- “The sound effects are funny, but a bit limited.”
- “Top game, good price, and very funny.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The game's optimization is criticized, particularly regarding its user interface and overall usability, which are deemed essential for an improved gaming experience. Users feel that better optimization is necessary for the game's critical processes to function effectively.
- “These processes are critical for the game, so it has to be optimized.”
- “These processes are critical for the game, so it needs to be optimized.”

70%Critics’ scoreBased on 1 critic reviews

StellarHub Review - KeenGamer
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