Starborne is a take on the grand-strategy 4X genre with the added powerful impact of being a multiplayer game played in real-time. In Starborne each game will last six months culminating in a decisive endgame.

You start with a fledgling station and as you invest in its infrastructure you will see it take shape and its borders grow, bringing unclaimed territories under your sovereignty. Soon it will be time to build another station with its own unique purpose within your master-plan. Will the next station be a center of research? A military compound? Or an industrial complex?

In Starborne there are multiple paths to success. Spymasters use their gathered intelligence to steer others’ ambitions to their own end. Explorers go on star treks searching for hidden riches and fame while industry moguls establish vast trade networks and utilize the final frontier's boundless resources. Spartan defenders focus on impregnable defenses and use their fleets to protect their sovereignty and that of their allies while Space-Napoleons use their offensive fleets to plunder opponents and pave their path to glory.

The sixth round of alpha for Starborne began today, Thursday April 18th! It will last 8 weeks, ending on 24:00 GMT, Thursday July 13th.

What's new?

•  The in-game store introduced. It's called 'Black Market' and you'll find it in the Inventory!
• Numerous new graphics and graphical updates including 34 new card arts and an animated opening of caches!
• Loads of gameplay updates with tweaks to cards, units, buildings and outposts!
• Empire Navigator introduced, new widget to help you command your empire!

You can find the complete list of changes here.

Returning participants need only to launch the patcher to update their client and log in, new players need simply sign up now and follow the instructions!

Need to re-download the client?  Click here!