Developer System Era Softworks and publisher Devolver Digital have together released a longer look at the gameplay for 2026 title, STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions.
As the follow up to a beloved game like Astroneer, System Era has its work cut out improving on what many feel is one of the definitive space exploration and production-line games. This first “Starseeker direct” broadcast, says System Era, “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.”
The team says it’s “a new kind of Astroneer adventure”. So let’s have look, then.
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.
Each planet in STARSEEKER is handcrafted, letting players return to favorite 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 mission.
STARSEEKER: Astroneer Expeditions is coming in 2026.
