Stars in Shadow
- Strategy
- Turn-based strategy (TBS)
- Indie
Game
Stars in Shadow
Stars in Shadow is a turn-based 4X strategy game and a vivid tribute to the genre classics. Compete with alien factions to explore and colonize nearby starsystems, build fleets to defend against rivals, negotiate or conquer them. Win by unifying the galaxy, through diplomacy or force.
About Stars in Shadow
- Released
- January 2017
- Developer
- Ashdar Games
- Publisher
- Iceberg Interactive
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows)
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From the developers
Official announcements, newest first. Posted on Steam.
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 25 May 2026Belit Tseri glowered from the gantry of the Arkship Ganzir's engineering gallery at the melted housing of the lane amplifier. "Something was bound to fail during transition," said the engineer, eyeing her warily. "We still don't know how long we were in stasis. The stress of realspace entry...""Never mind that, Kari. Just tell me how long until we are moving again."The engineer was still contem...
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 13 May 2026The hull of the Arkship groaned as the vessel was ejected from the hyperspace anomaly into the structure of real space-time. Belit Tseri reeled at her station on the bridge, struggling to maintain her footing as the shift of realities threatened to overwhelm her senses. Realspace was ordered, regular, plodding... a palpably different feel from the chaotic, frenetic flow of hyperspace. Yet dista...
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 10 August 2020Just a quick patch with a few bug fixes and resolution scaling changes. Patch Notes for 10 August 2020 (ver. r38774) Gameplay Additions and Changes Improvements to AI judgments about which planets should be offered/demanded when suing for peace. Added a "queue refit to recent design" option to the ship refit pane. Fixes Fix for a bug that was preventing Android colonists from suffering from ove...
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 18 July 2020{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/25142110/840fc8136d5f8aadb5d9ef2a6fe748cfe5085861.jpg Hudson: Well that’s great… that’s just fuckin’ great, man. Now what the fuck are we supposed to do? We’re in some real pretty shit now, man! Hicks: Are you finished? Newt: I guess we’re not going to be leaving now, right? Ripley: I’m sorry, Newt. Newt: You don’t have to be sorry. It wasn’t your fault. Hudson: That’s it, ma...
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 16 November 2019I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only the bug fixes will remain. Patch Notes for 16 November 2019 (ver. r38646) Gameplay Additions and Changes It...
- Community AnnouncementsDevelopment Update: 16 October 2019Hudson: Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt? Gorman: All we know is that there is still is no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved. Frost: Excuse me sir, a what? Gorman: A xenomorph. Hicks: It's a bug hunt. Patch Notes for 16 October 2019 (ver. r38568) Fixes Fix for a rare bug that could cause multiple splinter colonies to spawn on the same pl...
- Mods indexed
- 15
- Versions
- 0
- Newest tracked
- none yet
- Most disruptive update
- No breakage data for this game
Most downloaded
Measured from the source's own counts, summed across every release.
- Population PanelAdds a new side panel, the "Population Report" that shows all of the different species on each planet in your empire. The buttons and mini-planets in the side bar can be clicked on to quickly transfer population between planets, so it is a great tool to easily manage population transfers even whe...405 downloads
- More Map ShapesAdds experimental galaxy map shapes for new games. Current shape: - Spiral: a two-arm spiral with a dense central core and navigable outer arms. - Four Arm Spiral: a broader spiral with four thinner arms. - Barred Spiral: a central stellar bar with two trailing spiral arms. - Twin Cores: two dens...106 downloads
- Aurelian VaultSomewhere out past the comfortable lanes of settled space, the Aurelian system is doing something deeply unfair: sitting there with a huge Paradise world, glittering oceans, gentle continents, and the kind of biosphere that makes colonial administrators start clearing calendar space. Naturally, t...89 downloads
- Frontier AnomaliesAdds a framework-driven anomaly exploration system with a dedicated Exploration Suite ship component, map notifications, anomaly event windows, risk/reward exploration choices, event chains, and diplomacy rules for exploring anomalies on foreign worlds. Author: Dakota2424 Compatible Versions: >=1...85 downloads
- Opil DiscoveryFor generations, the Phidi have told the galaxy a very convenient story: true Opil crystals are a gift of Tendao alone, a glittering treasure born from one rare world's strange seas and warm vents. They were mostly right. Opil Discovery adds a small chance for Opil crystals to appear beyond the P...77 downloads
- Buffed Planetary DefensesAdds the Planetary Fire Control technology after Defense Grid. Once researched, planetary defense designs gain one additional weapon hardpoint. Author: dakota2424 Compatible Versions: >=1.4.576 downloads
- Super CarrierAdds the Super Carrier: a late-game answer to the question "what if the carrier was also the fleet?" Unlocked by Super Carriers after Super-Dreadnoughts, this immense carrier-command hull brings layered flight decks, expanded embarked-unit space, capital-ship endurance, and enough launch capacity...74 downloads
- Survey FrigateTurn the unknown into research data. Survey Frigate adds a new non-faction-specific exploration ship with original (AI generated) hull art, defensive hardpoints, deep-space survey equipment, and an onboard Expeditionary Science Lab. The lab generates science each turn and scales with system-slot...73 downloads
- Super Earth Defense ForceIn the age before the Collapse, the Great War belonged to the elder races: Humanity, the Gremak, and the Ashdar, three ancient powers loud enough to make history flinch. Then the stars broke. The Ashdar endured in fragments of empire and memory. The Gremak remembered conquest because conquest is...60 downloads
- Vesper ArchiveSomething built the Vesper Archive long before anyone was mapping this part of the galaxy. The planet was hollowed and rebuilt with insulated colony stacks, pressure galleries and storm channels. The planet is a civilization-scale battery and shelter fused into one machine. It worked, until it di...53 downloads
- DLC Steam RebalanceCurrent BUild 140726 Files reviewed to bring mod up to current avail version on steam Due to needing to review all files , a much more verbose list of all the mods changes now follows AntiMissile range increased to 20 Transprter range 12 Boarding requires shields down Adjusts base ranges to 10 20...50 downloads
- Frontier Anomalies Example ContentExample content pack for the Frontier Anomalies framework. Adds a small random-habitable anomaly set that demonstrates event chains, technology progress/unlocks, resource rewards, and commented content structure for other mod authors. Author: Dakota2424 Compatible Versions: >=1.4.546 downloads
- Agent Knowledge BaseA documentation-only mod for coding agents and human modders. It explains the local Stars in Shadow file structure, mod overlay conventions, and safer additive modding patterns. Enabling this mod does not change gameplay. Author: dakota2424 Compatible Versions: >=1.4.535 downloads
- Supercritical SystemsThe reactor is stable. The shield grid is stable. The captain is stable. Probably. Supercritical Systems adds a new family of risky pulse hardware built for ships that want to turn excess power into a battlefield event. Fit a Supercritical Capacitor, drive your systems past their comfort zone, an...33 downloads
- SiS: ReforgedA growing pack of new mechanics for Stars in Shadow. The objective of the mod is to expand upon the SiS experience by adding several new mechanics and possibilities to the game. Currently implemented features: 1. Military Market: A military market where any empire can buy or sell their ships, goo...23 downloads
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Why Stars in Shadow mods break
A mod is compiled against one version of a game. When the game updates, anything that reached into the parts that moved stops working, and it usually stops working silently rather than with a message that explains itself.
That is what the table above counts. It is not a guess: each row is a mod the community has reported as broken by that specific release. The number is a fair measure of how disruptive an update was, and it is the reason people delay updating a game they have modded heavily.
Common questions
Does IndexGG host Stars in Shadow mods?
No, and it never will. Every download link points at the author's own page on Nexus, GitHub, CurseForge or wherever they published it. We index the ecosystem; the files stay with the people who made them.
Where does the compatibility data come from?
From the communities that maintain it in the open, not from guesswork. Each claim carries how it is known, so a reported breakage is never presented as though the author said it.
Why is a mod listed as broken when it works for me?
Compatibility depends on your exact game version and the rest of your load order. A mod marked as broken in one release may work fine on an older one, which is exactly why the version is recorded next to the claim rather than a bare yes or no.