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Published on October 8th, 2025 | by Andrew Bistak

Astroneer Expeditions Takes Players Beyond the Stars in 2026

Earlier this year, bold space explorers System Era Softworks and Devolver Digital announced STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions, a brand-new adventure in the beloved Astroneer universe, set to launch in 2026.

Today, the first STARSEEKER DIRECT broadcast beamed down fresh details and an extended look at gameplay, giving budding Astroneers a taste of the chaos, camaraderie, and cosmic fun that awaits aboard the ESS Starseeker.



A New Kind of Astroneer Adventure
Starseeker isn’t your everyday stroll through the stars—it’s a full-blown expedition game built around cooperation, improvisation, and a healthy dose of interplanetary foolishness.

Recruits begin their journey on the ESS Starseeker, an experimental space station packed with tools, supplies, and the questionable leadership of the famous Action Science Hero superteam, the Fronteer Force. Players can set out solo or in a Squad with up to three friends, preparing their loadouts before diving into timed missions across alien worlds.

  • Step one: Gear up. Shop, craft, and trade your way to the perfect loadout—or ignore all common sense and fill your pack with beach balls and fireworks.
  • Step two: Deploy. The moment your dropship lands, the clock is ticking. Time is short, planets are hostile, and everything (including your teammates) can—and probably will—go sideways.
  • Step three: Survive, celebrate, and swap stories back on the Starseeker. For all its “critical missions” and “serious science,” life on the station is more like a space party bus than a research facility.

First Stop: Planet Tephra
The first destination for intrepid Astroneers is Tephra, a lush and mysterious planet deep in frontier space. Its tangled jungles, vast oceans, and cavernous depths hold secrets—and more than a few hazards.

Each planet in STARSEEKER is handcrafted, letting players return to favourite vistas, hidden caches, or that one spot where Carl got eaten by a flower monster. As Squads progress, new Landing Zones unlock, opening up uncharted territory, fiercer challenges, and bigger cooperative missions.

And Tephra is just the beginning. As the Starseeker travels deeper into frontier space, the crew will uncover new worlds, each bringing its own dangers, creatures, and stories tied to the Fronteer Force’s Super Top-Secret Mission.

First Look at an Expedition
In the STARSEEKER DIRECT demo, a Squad touched down on Tephra to help repair critical equipment for the science team. Simple enough—until it wasn’t. Local fauna had Gooped everything in sight, forcing recruits to improvise with their EXO Tools and specialised Nozzles. Nozzles are modular upgrades that transform the way explorers interact with the environment.

The Squad’s mission required the team to set up a comms relay high up on Tephra’s cliffs, all while cleaning Goop from machinery using Water Hose Nozzles, contending with rowdy creatures, and escaping the planet before time ran out. Of course, detours were made for Carrotling-chasing, Squad hijinks, and general chaos. After all, what’s a Starseeker expedition without a little creative disaster?

STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions launches in 2026, bringing players deeper into the Astroneer universe. Whether you’re a meticulous planner, a curious explorer, or just someone who really likes throwing beach balls in space, the Starseeker has a seat for you.

Visit starseekergame.com and join the Discord to book your ticket and gather your crew: the party bus to Frontier Space departs soon.


About the Author

When he's not trying to save the world, Andrew enjoys travel (although loathes turbulence), going to the movies, reading and being a dad to his two dogs (and now twins) with his wife.



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