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Starsector on Twitch — competition and audience

Fractal Softworks· 2013· Linux · PC · Mac
RPGSimulatorStrategyIndieScience fictionSandbox

Starsector is a game of space combat, fleet management, trade, and role-playing. Pilot a ship and command a fleet through intense tactical combat while exploring, trading, battling, and leveling-up in an open-ended sandbox campaign set in a lost sector of the galaxy. Explore distant star systems. Trade goods and loyalty among competing factions. Beware of ruthless pirates while evading tariff patrols. Assemble your fleet for trade or battle while upgrading and modify your starships, then fight your enemies! Forge your destiny and steer the fate of the human race 6000 light-years from Old Earth.

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What is Starsector about?

The game itself has minimal plot, and the player is involved in very few story moments. The player is instead intended to create their own story. Lead developer Alexander Mosolov has stated that the player is intended to uncover the setting's backstory as they travel throughout the world. The game takes place in the far future, after humanity developed faster-than-light travel using transport gates, which acted as wormholes. For many years, this method of travel created a golden age for humanity, which took place under a governing political entity known as the Domain. However, exactly 206 years prior to the game's start, all transport gates abruptly ceased to function and humanity was plunged into a dark age where piracy went rampant and splintering factions began to form and exert their influence. This event is referred to as "the collapse". In the sector, a region of space in the Milky Way galaxy where the game takes place, there are various different factions that have taken hold and reached a strategic stalemate, with no faction being able to win.[8] These factions are:

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2Live streamers
122People watching
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Should I stream Starsector on Twitch?

0/100 · Closed off· 61 viewers per streamer on paper

Probably not. The two English streams here hold all 122 English viewers — once you take them out there is nothing left to reach.

The two English streams here hold all 122 English viewers between them. Take them out and nothing is left to reach.

Almost nobody here is available to you — either a couple of streams hold the room, or nobody is watching in English, or the category is empty, or you would be buried.

This reads the room as it is right now — how much of the English-speaking audience is reachable and where you would land — not how many followers you would gain. That depends on you.

Where to buy

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How many people stream Starsector?

Right now

2 right now, to 122 viewers between them. Counted live from Twitch and refreshed every 15 minutes.

Is Starsector too saturated on Twitch?

Not crowded, but not open either. Only 2 people are streaming Starsector, and the two English streams hold all 122 English viewers between them — so the room is quiet because that audience is already committed, not because it is waiting for you.

Who you're up against

Biggest streams of 2 live right now

Is Starsector any good?

Players score it 94 out of 100 from 12 ratings.

94Players12 ratings

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Details

Released
Apr 26, 2013 · 14 years ago
Time to finish
No ending — ongoing game
Playing on Steam
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Price
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Modes
Single player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Rated
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Biggest stream
99 (81% of the category)
Typical stream
61 viewers (median)
Count accuracy
Exact — every live stream counted

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Updated Nov 8, 2026, 5:39 AM UTC