Beyond These Stars 비욘드 디스 스타즈

Hi all! We are so, so excited to announce that Beyond These Stars will be releasing on October 15th, 2026 ! If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to play the Demo and get a feel for what's to come. Check out the release date trailer below… Recovering from uncertain times, your Peeps find themselves on the back of Kewa - a lonely Space Whale journeying across the universe. Building a city on the back of a sentient creature comes with its own set of challenges, but as you build your relationship and travel across the galaxy, you'll come across great opportunities for exploration and st

One of the most important things you need to be taking care of during your travels in Beyond These Stars is not just your Peeps, but Kewa themself!  Kewa is a sentient being, a giant Space Whale with needs and wants of their own. We learn this close to the start of the game when Kewa ‘zoots’ through space and takes the Peeps far from their home planet. A unique part of our game design is that Kewa’s happiness plays an important role in also keeping your Peeps happy!  What happens if Kewa is unhappy? They will go and eat all the planets you have settled with your Peeps!! Okay no, I'm kidding, t

Today we’re going to take a look at an exciting part of Beyond These Stars that goes far beyond the demo gameplay. In Beyond These Stars you can go, well, beyond the stars! You may be hesitant to leave the comfort of Kewa but beyond the stars (see what I’m doing here) there are habitable planets for you and your Peeps to settle!  Once you unlock the ability to travel with Kewa, you’ll gain access to the Galaxy Map. Initially this will only be partially visible, but as you continue your journey you’ll unlock more and more to explore. Within the Galaxy Map you’ll see nodes containing stars that

Sheep and Cows on Kewa? All mineable resources? NO RIVER? Absolutely bonkers. Nope, not bonkers. Introducing Sandbox Mode! With Sandbox Mode, you will have complete control over what is available to you on Kewa that would normally only be available on the habitable plants you discover throughout the Galaxy in Story Mode. Some of the selections you decide from when creating your Sandbox game could make the game easier or more difficult. It’s up to you! Certain elements of the game may resonate with some of you more than others, and letting you be able to customise your experience to whatever yo

We received a lot of amazing feedback from the Beyond These Stars Demo (and yes, we were listening 👀), especially when it came to our Peep Character portraits. So we went back to the drawing board, reworked, refined and reimagined them.  Which means that now… it’s time to introduce the new and improved Peep Portraits! A lot of the feedback focused on how our original Peep Portraits didn’t quite fit the feel and art style of the game, so we tasked one of our artists, Reyna, with bringing our Peeps to a new level. And boy did she deliver!  I asked Reyna what her thought process and inspiration

Life on Kewa can’t always be happiness and potatoes! Peeps can celebrate, Peeps can Strike, but also… Peeps can get sick, pass away, and mourn. Let’s find out more about each of these new behaviours that will roll out in our full game. Sickness is a mechanic we designed to give Peep wellbeing a greater impact and provide more things for you to consider, encouraging players to think of the wellbeing of the Peeps, and not just their outputs. To avoid your Peeps getting sick, you’ll need to manage your Peeps energy levels. Keep them happy and relaxed with delicious food (potatoes are good, but ha

We’re going on Strike! Just kidding! It’s actually the Peeps going on strike! Let’s take a look, shall we? When a high enough percentage of your Peeps are unhappy enough, they will start a strike. And just like in real life, some of your production lines will stop while the Peeps are striking.  But don’t worry - not ALL of your Peeps will strike at once, so not all of your production will stop. However, we do want to avoid strikes happening at all, and to do that, you’ll need to make sure that your Peeps are well cared for - this includes managing pollution,  making sure no Peeps are homeless,

While the team at Balancing Monkey Games and you, our lovely community, have been celebrating the switch to a 1.0 Launch, we think we should get the Peeps involved in the celebrations too because there’s no party like a party on the back of a giant space whale! We’ve been working on some new Peep behaviours, and we’ll share one of those with you today. If you haven’t guessed already…  Peep Celebrations! Because Peeps like to party too. If a large proportion of your peeps in a single location are above a high Happiness threshold, some of them throw a Celebration! We have a new building, the ‘Fa

Since our last Dev Blog, A LOT has changed, and a fair amount of these changes were shown in our most recent Demo. But we are about to announce the biggest change of all… We will be skipping over Early Access and going straight to a 1.0 release for Beyond These Stars, THIS YEAR! (Cue the Peep Celebrations!) 🎉 You folks may have a lot of questions, and we totally get that, so let us explain. While preparing for what was planned to be an Early Access release, we found that many of our systems were complete enough to meet our requirements for a 1.0 release. After LOTS of discussions in-house, we

We've just released a small update for the Beyond These Stars demo, to fill in a few missing localizations