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Key facts
- Cheapest right now
- € Standard · Steam Key · Europe · Instant Gaming
- Live offers
- 7 offers · 7 stores
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Beyond These Stars came out yesterday, 16 October, on PC: Steam, the Epic Games Store, GOG and the Xbox app. It's a sci-fi city builder from Balancing Monkey Games, published by Hooded Horse, and the cheapest offer this morning is a Steam Key from Instant Gaming at €18.99 (no fees), €5 below the €23.99 (no fees) Steam is asking. It also went into PC Game Pass and Game Pass Ultimate on day one, so subscribers can just install it. No console version has been announced.
The city sits on a whale, and the whale is alive
You build your settlement on the back of Kewa, a sentient space whale drifting through the galaxy, and the whole game hangs on that. Kewa has an ecosystem of its own, and keeping it healthy is part of your job. Grow the colony at the whale's expense and you'll feel it sooner or later. The point is to live alongside it.
If you played Before We Leave, the studio's previous game, the hex grid and the unhurried pace will feel familiar.
First, make the whale's back habitable
At the start there's very little on Kewa's back. You terraform it: dig canals, spread a layer of soil, plant forests. Only then do you start placing homes and production buildings on the hexagonal tiles.
From there it's mostly a logistics game. Raw materials need to reach workshops and finished goods need to reach the people who use them, so a lot of your time goes into keeping supply chains flowing. Workers do shifts and get tired, and tired workers produce less. Pollution is the other thing to watch: dirty industry turns tiles toxic, which hurts your colony and Kewa alike. Research moves you along a tech tree that also hands out perks.
Outposts on other planets and trade with aliens
Kewa never stops moving, so you pass close to other planets. You can set up temporary outposts on them to pull in resources the whale doesn't have. Along the way you run into alien civilisations, and trading with them is one of the ways to get new technology. The galaxy is procedurally generated, so a second run won't take the same route as the first.
Early reviews on Steam are "Positive": 80% of 25. That's far too few to lean on yet.
What it costs on PC this morning
We have 7 offers from 7 verified stores, all Steam Keys except one. Steam sells it for €23.99 (no fees), which is a 20% launch discount on its full price of €29.99. We don't know when that discount ends.
- Instant Gaming: €18.99 (no fees), Steam Key. The cheapest, €5 (21%) under Steam. It's a Europe-region key, so it activates on European Steam accounts.
- GamesPlanet: €21.42 (no fees), global Steam Key.
- Driffle: €22.39 with coupon GOCDKEYS10 (€23.60 with fees), Steam Key.
- Allyouplay and Green Man Gaming: €23.99 (no fees), the same as Steam.
The odd one out is Difmark at €22.67 with coupon Gocdkeys (€23.69 with fees). That's a Steam Account: a separate account that already owns the game, and nothing gets added to your own library. With cheaper keys available, it isn't worth it.
Is €18.99 a good price?
We started tracking the game on 9 October, so there are only eight days of history, all without fees. During pre-orders the lowest was Driffle at €24.89. On launch day Instant Gaming dropped to €19.49, and today's €18.99 is the lowest price we've recorded. Eight days is too short to tell whether it will go lower.
If you were going to buy it anyway, €18.99 is already €11 less than Steam's full price. If you'd rather wait, set a price alert for Beyond These Stars and we'll email you when it reaches the price you pick. Every offer, fees included, is on the page to buy Beyond These Stars key.
Prices checked on the morning of 17 October.
Buying guides and price comparisons written alongside live prices from the stores verified by GOCDKEYS.