Release Window: Fall 2025 (Steam Early Access)
Developer: Creepy Jar (creators of Green Hell)
Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Genre: Co-op Survival | Factory Base-Builder | Tactical FPS Combat
Player Modes: Solo or 4-player online co-op
First Impressions
StarRupture might just be the brutal survival/factory crossover we didn’t know we needed. From the first stellar quake that devastates the terrain to your desperate scramble to rebuild with your crew, the game makes one thing clear: this world doesn’t care about you.
You’re a convict-engineer sent to Arcadia‑7. Build, automate, survive—and if you do it well enough, you might just earn your freedom.
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What You’ll Be Doing
Explore Arcadia‑7
- An alien planet wracked by violent stellar rupture events.
- Each rupture devastates the land, opening new zones and threats—nothing stays safe for long.
Build Smart, Build Fast
- Construct complex bases with drones, conveyor belts, energy grids, and automated refineries.
- Defenses matter: turrets, walls, and elevation can be the difference between survival and erasure.
Automate, Expand, Repeat
- Unlock blueprints, research tech trees, and build massive production networks.
- Expand outward, build rail systems for drones, and power your expansion—but risk exposure to bigger threats.
Accept Faction Contracts
Confirmed by GamesUnit.de:
“In StarRupture, you play as a prisoner working off your sentence by taking contracts from various corporations on the hostile planet named Arcadia‑7.”
- Fulfilling contracts grants access to better tech, gear, and unlocks progression.
- These missions may include extraction, defense, and logistics goals with real in-world consequences.
Fight to Survive
- This isn’t idle factory-building. Alien life is aggressive, coordinated, and relentless.
- FPS gunplay, turret defense, and squad coordination are all required to hold ground.
What Makes StarRupture Different?
| Feature | Why It Matters |
|---|---|
| Planet-wide “ruptures” | Game-changing events that wipe areas, force relocation, and unlock new zones |
| Focused FPS combat | Unlike most factory sims, you must actively fight to survive |
| 4-player co-op | Team-based survival means shared building, shared losses |
| Corporate contracts | Gives your gameplay purpose beyond simple survival |
Unreal Engine 5 – The Secret Weapon
UE5 does more than power pretty screenshots—it shapes how StarRupture plays:
- Massive Seamless World: Thanks to UE5’s World Partition system, zones are enormous and persistent.
- Rupture Physics & Lighting: Volumetric lighting, destructible terrain, and environmental chaos make rupture events feel visceral and cinematic.
- Stunning Atmosphere: Alien flora, deep fogs, lava flows, and crystalline zones evolve with each rupture—powered by UE5’s Nanite and Lumen tech.
This isn’t just about making a “better-looking” factory sim—it’s about making a living, collapsing, reactive survival world.
Your Goals as a Player
You’re not just surviving—you’re rebuilding your life, one contract at a time:
- Take corporate assignments to earn resources and unlock tech
- Build a functioning automated outpost under constant threat
- Survive rupture cycles, which alter the world in real-time
- Defend your zone against increasingly hostile native species
- Eventually… escape? Ascend? The story unfolds with each update
This isn’t idle gameplay. You’ll work, adapt, and rebuild—because you want to live.
Final Thoughts
Where Satisfactory gives you freedom and efficiency, StarRupture gives you urgency and purpose. There’s a story behind every factory here—and sometimes that story ends in fire and ruin.
If Green Hell taught us how good Creepy Jar is at high-stakes survival, then StarRupture may be their most ambitious test yet.
Work hard. Fight harder. Survive the rupture.
Arcadia-7 is waiting.
Resources & Proof Links
- Steam Page – StarRupture
- Gameplay Trailer (YouTube)
- Official Website
- GamesUnit.de Faction Contract Confirmation
- Reddit Gameplay Reactions