Darkstar One on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Darkstar One offers a fantastic amount of freedom of choice. The story-based missions gradually lead you deeper into the galaxy to new races, new technologies and ever stronger opponents. Explore a vast array of solar systems in search of hidden artifacts of ancient races, essential objects for upgrading your ship--the Darkstar One.

Darkstar One is a action, space and sci-fi game developed by Ascaron Entertainment ltd. and published by Strategy First.
Released on February 13th 2008 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 574 reviews of which 472 were positive and 102 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 1.75€ on Steam with a 80% discount.


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System requirements

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Windows
Minimum:
  • Supported OS: Windows XP (32 bit)
  • Processor: 1.6 GHz Intel or AMD processor
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Sound: DirectX compatible Sound Card
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible 128 MB graphics card with support for pixel/vertex shader 1.1 (GeForce 3 and above)
  • Hard Drive: 6 GB HD Space
Recommended:
  • Supported OS: Windows XP with SP2
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz Intel or AMD processor
  • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
  • Sound: DirectX compatible Sound Card
  • Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible 256 MB graphics card with support for pixel/vertex shader 3.0 (GeForce 6/Radeon x1x00 and above)
  • Hard Drive: 7 GB HD Space

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025
Great game for chilling out. I bought it years ago on 360, then bought it again here for KB+M controls. Just enough systems to be entertaining, but not so deep that you're micromanaging diplomacy and trade routes. If I want that, then I'll just play one of the X series of games. I love 4X games as much as the next guy, but sometimes I just want gratuitous space dogfights and light trading.
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Dec. 2024
Kinda unpolished gem. Still, one of the best space sims...ever!
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Nov. 2024
Who said the xbox controller never worked with this game??? It was the one thing the reason i never brought it. as guess what as soon as i started the game it found my controller i re - config the buttons and i am good to go. any one else out there wants too know yes xbox one controller works great. and with it on sale what a steel.
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Oct. 2024
Better than elite dangerous. I still have my old old CD and its original case, CD is heavily damaged caused I played this SO MUCH when I was a young little thing. NOTE: You might have to run a patch to get it working! Look it up!
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April 2024
Just like Free Lancer but better.
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Darkstar One
7.8
472
102
Online players
10
Developer
Ascaron Entertainment ltd.
Publisher
Strategy First
Release 13 Feb 2008
Platforms