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89%2k89% positive reviews, Very Positive across 2k reviews·Space · Sandbox
—Explore the stars in this 2D top-down sci-fi game, where you can engage in dogfights with spaceships or disembark to challenge your enemies on foot. Complete contracts, unlock stronger ships, and discover ancient mysteries hidden in forgotten galaxies.
You belong in the Stars
SteamDiscover the fractured world of You Belong in the Stars, where you travel from solar system to solar system in an open world galaxy, exploring things and stuff



Engage in dogfights with smaller spacecraft or pilot larger cruisers. Choose from a wide selection of ships, each with unique combat abilities and utilities to attack, defend, or even exit your ship to fight enemies inside space stations or other vessels.


Completing quests earns you money to spend on ships and equipment, while also improving your reputation with the quest-giving organization. Meanwhile, your target’s opinion of you worsens, eventually forcing them to take action against you. The reputation system in You Belong in the Stars determines whether organizations will be friendly or hostile towards you and others.


You Belong in the Stars gives you the freedom to explore its vast solar and star systems, but traveling between them is no simple task. Or maybe it will be I didnt decide yet


The early access wont feature all of these, but the final release will:
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