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Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Developer Little Green Men Games
Starpoint Gemini Warlords is a blend of space trading and combat simulator, role-playing and 4X video game developed by Croatian-based Little Green Men Games and published by Iceberg Interactive. Starpoint Gemini Warlords is a spin-off title to the space sim Starpoint Gemini 2, which was released in 2014. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
182 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
60
Fresh
107 positive · 72 negative
95% range 52–67%
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| Steam reviews | 107 | 72 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
2,628 of 3,598 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Critics, per Wikipedia
The game received mixed to positive reviews and currently holds an aggregated score of 73 on Metacritic, based on 11 reviews, and a score of 70% on Gamerankings, based on 6 reviews. The game sold more than 200,000 copies.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 182 · most liked firstI write these reviews to remind me of why this game is in the "bad game" folder. I thought I’d try this since someone told me it was Mount & Blade in space. They lied. The game has level scaling, so you never really progress. Level scaling is what lazy, bad devs do. Why add levels to a game when they mean nothing? The game has no real economy. Location X always spawns a fixed amount of resource Y at price Z, and it never changes. Just leave, dock again, and everything is restocked. Combat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I hate to do it, I have to give this game a bad review. It is a complete and utterly buggy mess. 1. Your ships don't shoot their primary weapons...at anything. They just float around providing moral support. Occasionally they "might" fire their secondary weapons, but when enemy shields are up it does nothing. This is a HUUUUUUUUGE problem for a game that is advertised as building fleets. Well, technically you "can" build fleets, but what's the point when they just float around and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game did one of the sins in games that I absolutely hate: Your enemies level up with you. 1) This game levels you up quickly, too quickly 2) in this game they do this sin by leveling up the mission difficulty as fast as your level. 3) this forces you to race to get the next big ship, instead of enjoying your current ship and upgrading the equipment on your ship. No, you can't upgrade your weapon or equipment slots because you leveled up so fast that now your missions are now much more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a really tricky one for me. Warlords isn't terrible, it's also barely entertaining in my opinion. The graphics are nice enough, the game runs well, but space itself here is just quite boring to look at. The map is huge, but with barely anything to do. You can either take on freelance missions that are always the same (kill target, kill several targets, scan this, salvage that, deliver this), take on the INSANELY powerful bounties (seriously, the level 3 or 4 bounty gal just wrecked my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR - Fairly fun, if simple, arcade space simulator with some annoying flaws. This game was my entry point into the Starpoint Gemini series. I had never played any of the games before, so I figured this was a decent place to begin. While the bones of a solid space RPG, 4X game are there, it gets to be a fair bit repetitive, especially in the campaign missions, mostly in some of the expansions. In the campaign, you start out with a mid-size Frigate or Carrier (forgot which) and your squad…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless you intend to play this on gamepad with nothing else plugged into your computer, don't bother. Devs have apparently decided for us that we arent allowed to do it any other way. Could have easily enough included a line in the local config files that disabled controller, nevermind going the REALLY complicated route of prompting the user to select gamepad or m & k. For the sake of clarity, this isnt a case of "I dont like playing with gamepad so I won't". After hitting play from steam,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really Tried to play this. It's possible if you just use the map for 90% of it once you get fleet commands. (While you basically do nothing with your actual ship etc.) However because the controls are so Janky and outdated, actually playing the game is damn near impossible. The developers need to seriously look at a decent game in this genre, and fix their controls. The game tries to control like "Freelancer", and Play like a 4x real time. Unfortunately, it fails at both, and miserably.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game could've been a superb one, sadly it fails at the core promise of the game, fleet management. Ships stop acting as soon as you get move away more than 15 kilometres. It means in big battles your best ships just play staring contest with small ships while you have to move your titan slogging through each group to get them to act kill the ship in 2.5 seconds and slog through another group while the titan takes 1 minute to turn and another to accelerate just for your huge battleships to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Steam really needs a Neutral option for reviews. I do not think Warlords deserves either a positive nor a negative review. Being a long-time X4 player and having played a bunch of Starpoint Gemini 2, I was very curious as to what the devs could cook when focusing on 4X. While I have not played Warlords much yet, I believe I have a general idea as to how the systems work and will work, so I'm basing my review on that. In terms of graphics, Starpoint Gemini generally doesn't disappoint. It's no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls are bad, like really bad! Mouse, wasd and then you need to use k - + etc all while trying to keep enemies in front of you, who just flies circles around you staying in your blind spot... Main quest bugged out 2 times and had too reload earlier save games to fix. This would be awesome if controlling your ship wasnt so frustrating.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to like this game, but couldn't. As a 4X strategy title, it is meant to embark the player upon a journey towards domination by eXploring, eXpanding, eXploiting, and eXterminating. These games are meant to indulge us in this fantasy that we are comparable to someone like Alexander the Great before we wake up in the morning to report to another client whose sinks are clogged and come to the unfair realization that we are just doomed to a plain life. Despite all of its pretty colors as you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played this for a while as i was doing a story run on previous Gemini 2 game at the same time. After a while of digging around both playing and trying to figure out the differences and i came to the conclusion this is 'Mount and Blade in space'. If that phrase is a buy for you, go ahead. The rest forget it. The previous Gemini 2 is grindy game with ok story. Now this game with same roots steers it towards a more useful direction that the fans wanted: Having your own faction and fleets,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starpoint Gemini Warlords unfortunately seems to have been dishonest. They may have made an empty promise during the biggest Steam sale of 2022 regarding upcoming Steam Deck support for this game. No updates have taken place. I dislike developers / publishers that make empty promises. See here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2994021875
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR: Pros: + Grow your factions + Upgrade your base + Different ships + Control fleets + Spend perk points Cons: - Interacting with other faction pointless, does nothing - No sense of exploration - No point in playing with a smaller ship - Weak story - No real ending/credits roll - Limited loadout customization for your ship Starpoint Gemini: Warlords offers some fun moments—especially when it comes to conquering the map, upgrading your base, and commanding big ships and fleets. The ability…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game. It's like Mount and Blade Bannerlords in space but you play as a big ass ship.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Before reviewing i was leaning to a 6/10 especially with my game-time but upon reviewing i'll say this is a 3-4 out of 10. The review was supposed to be longer but I realized half-way that I reached the word limit so I had to cut corners. A LOT. You'll realize it by the amount of sentences being cut short. Ultimately an addictive but extremely flawed game. ----STORY---- Story itself is pretty boring and the voice acting isn't that interesting. I don't really like the passive-aggressive nature…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really don't get the design choice in this game. The camera angle has you basically constantly looking under the ship while flying. The ships take up most of the damn screen. The weapon angles make no sense. The game spawns enemies way stronger than your ship on missions you need to run for money because you level too fast compared to the pitiful money you make which makes another grind incredibly boring. This game's idea of "difficulty" is spawning mass amounts of platforms on top of fleets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While not a terrible game by any standard, Starpoint Gemini Warlords falls short on a crucial front: personality. Many of its core promises—particularly the capital ship combat and 4X strategy blend—also underdeliver, resulting in a shallow experience that I personally couldn’t bring myself to continue. The game’s lack of personality is most evident in its empty world-building and lifeless space. The universe is filled with repetitive combat encounters, predictable and copy-pasted events, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It just doesn't control well. And looking back on developer commentary where people pointed out that it didn't controll well and they were like 'Well git gud" kind of explains everything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →basically mount and blade if it was space ships, only downside is that because the game is all singleplayer, the AI calculations are screwed in the computers favour, for example, it gets free fleets in systems at game start that defend it as well as entire fleets of ships when the AI faction performs an invasion or at random points in the game for no cost, has no limits on its fleets and any combat between your faction and an AI faction that does not include you have major disadvantages for…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is fantastic. If you are a fan of games like Homeworld, Eve, the X-series (though I was greatly disappointed by 4), etc- You will like this game. This is a true sandbox experience (with optional story line). You start out with a bare bones station next to a planet, a few defenders, some money and a ship. From there, the massive open Universe is yours, complete with factions, hazardous zones, planets, asteroid fields that range in danger, pirates, cartels... the list goes on. From…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got it for 5$ which is nice, but overall this game is just a grind fest with not much else to it. Missions unbalenced and not much to them, story is short and same. Goes right into building the proximia ship which costs way to much. Weapons arent setup well and neither are stations/planets. Travel is bad. Just can recommend it. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most features of the game has been expressed by other reviewers, just adding how I feel and a little guide regarding the battle controls. SPG Warlords is an amazing space sim. It is not dog-fighting style flight sim but capital ship with auto-turrets. The game even has in-game video tutorials in its Geminipedia. It is a wonderful game once properly learned. The Controls: People expecting dog-fighting may find it confusing / outright hate it. 1. Toggle to Turret mode. Drag left mouse to change…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starpoint Gemini Warlords, developed and published by Little Green Men Games, is an ambitious space simulation that attempts to merge third-person space combat, role-playing progression, and large-scale 4X strategy into a single cohesive sandbox. Set in the Gemini system—a fractured and politically volatile region of space—the game places you in the role of a freelance captain who can gradually rise to become a faction leader and territorial warlord. Rather than confining itself to one genre,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have exactly zero idea what im doing. But im having a blast. Flight takes a minute to get used too. But, its intuitive and fun. Story is alright. Easy to follow. Typical space civilization story. Ready to get to free roam. Big plus in my opinion, no matter what battle ship you decide to pilot, your class abilities transfer. There is a point in the story in which you're forced to buy a new class ship, and I was worried I would get a new loadout of abilities with the ship. Not the case at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game gives me Mount & Blade vibes but in space. Edited Review after Finishing all the main missions, and doing a bit of free play exploration. I will still reccomend the game as it was decent fun while i played, but I don't think the freeplay of this game is all that great. This game does NOT have a comprehensive Trading system. Station / Plant Stock respawns immediately once you leave and go back in. and prices are fixed for all planets, so find the most profitable route, and just warp…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In the game's current state, I can't recommend it. It has potential, but feels a bit unfinished. Although that could be the curse of multi-tasking, doing multiple things at once...poorly. Music issues, text being cut off, wrong portraits for voice lines, sounds being off especially for titans, having to be very specific for things, various speeds of different missions in the campaign (grinding for the proxima, for example, takes quite a while, and you are forced to do it before you can continue…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Still amazing after all these years.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really Really bad and annoying fleet controls. There are jump gates but when you have a fleet follow you they don't go through gates so they take litterally take an hour to fly to where you want them. Managing your fleet is idiodic, you have to have them merge, you cant just select ships in a menu and add them you have to look on the galaxy map and physically tell them to merge and most of the time they sit there for 15 min trying to merge together. Most annoying crap that should be simple.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reminds me of the old Freelancer style space sim, but with a bit of RTS conquest sprinkled on top.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're looking for a relaxing, not overly complicated Eve offline, this may be what you want. There are a ton of ships to fly, ranging from smaller gunships all the way to titan class vessels. The backdrops and environments are varied and beautifully rendered, and the fleet management system isn't complicated at all. Once you get used to the controls, which can be a bit jarring at first, this game quickly becomes great, and always gives you something to do. Highly recommended for people…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wasn't a fan of SPG2 - clunky controls, warping into planets. But Warlords seems to have been refined. Its a good game overall. There is a lot of empty space and lots of time spent going from A to B. The combat system is still clunky at first and not anything like a typical space fighter shoot em up (e.g Everspace 2, SPG3 etc). However, once you figure things out, its an ok system. Story isn't bad, granted I'm still playing through it when I have the time. Mission running gets repetitive…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just feels bad and mediocre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You should give it a try, quite nice game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I liked this Game a lot. The Game has open World feeling to it. Story is short, i think they should have concentrate on the Story more then the Gameplays around it with Sidequests. Sidequests repiding them selfes a lot. The Managing ships part didnt feel right, because if you send your fleet asspacialy at early game you just loose all your ships if you are not with the fleet and to get new Ships is really time intense and you dont get a lot material at the beginning of the game. If you get more…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have fond memories of this game and wanted to try it again after 4 years. I've been trying to play the tutorial for 2 hours by now. The game constantly crashes and freezes, it's frustrating. In order to play without freezes, stutters and random crashes: reduce graphic quality to high or medium, even lower, disable 4k interface graphics, and most importantly: play on windowed mode. If you play on fullscreen and the game freezes, your only way to close the game will be by forcing a PC reboot.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, great game, can easily lose yourself in it for hours to days at a time, great graphics, the different genras of game tie in well together, my only complaint is how smaller ships are completely redundant, as every ship uses the same weapon sets there is no purpose to the smaller craft existing at all, as the larger ships simply get more of everything, except speed, and that's the same across the board, some balance work to ensure all ship sizes had a role and purpose would be a great thing,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Little lovely game. Though i have not finiahed main campaign yet. I would recomend it on sale only. It is decent space game where you can conquer territory in space and stations and so on. But there is a lot of stuff that feels just half baked. But also a lot of stuff what is fun. For me most annoying were that your ship would only fire at single target even though some of the weapons were just idle because they are at your rear side. And i really wanted to play carrier but as far as i can…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awful balancing, play 5h and you've seen it all
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Couldnt ever get past how the controls feel
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The cabin hummed with the low, rhythmic thrum of the ion drive as I reclined in the pilot’s seat, boots propped up on the edge of the dash. Outside the reinforced viewscreen, the familiar clusters of the Milky Way had thinned into a sparse dusting of diamonds against an absolute, velvet void. I was drifting on the "Shoreline"— the very edge of charted space—where the stars ended and the great unknown began. A soft chime echoed through the cockpit, followed by the mechanical whir of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really interesting on its face, but fails to go anywhere meaningful or fun. The gameplay loop is: 1. Predicable text box discussion about war/sabotage/fighting/stealing. 2. Go to place, click on stuff, wait. 3. Dig around in UI to buy stuff with loot. 4. Repeat. Nothing really interesting or new other than the quirky controls that feel a bit like playing with toys. That little joy wears off quick and you are left with the bones of something forgettable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Initially difficult to get used to the janky camera and movement controls, but once you do, this game can get very addicting. The only other major downside I would point out is that no matter how many guns you have on your ship, they can only fire at 1 target at a time. This can get a bit frustrating when you have a Dreadnought with 32 guns and you're surrounded by dozens of smaller enemy ships that you could take out very quickly if you could shoot more than 1 at a time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There are just too many things wrong with this game. Movement, especially in battle, is very chaotic. Your ship also moves obscenely slow, with no noticeable upgrade, for how far apart everything is and you'll spend half your time just letting your ship move on auto pilot. It's also a very grindy game when it comes to the money and levels, but the building resources play out more like an idle game where you're just waiting for 3 minute intervals. There's a lot of long-winded and boring dialogue…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you love to conquer wolds in a massive epic fleet, then this is a game for it. Graphics are fine, space lacks a little bit of content, feels really empty. However the mechanics of combat and fleet creation makes the game to a great strategic space conquest! Definetily worth it when discount is applied...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's right on the point
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game, but there are a fair number of complaints I would like to address. This review comes from someone who dabbles in astrophysics a bit. The tutorials are clunky, the controls are rather clunky. These are minor, and playing around with the settings fixes it quite well. Now for one of my big complaints: why, in space, do none of the ships have turrets on the "underside"? Assuming space itself does not have any proper up-down axis, you'd think there would be turret hardpoints…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Definitely enjoying it, but I like almost anything that lets me pretend to be in space. Feels kind of like an EVE Offline, if you enjoy stuff like EVE and Rebel Galaxy you will probably enjoy this. Nothing particularly special makes it really stand out and I would not recommend to someone who isnt into similar games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got lost in the sauce, still had fun. It's an easier X:Game and a good way to dip your toes into a massive space game without losing your mind with spreadsheets and bad translations.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starpoint Gemini Warlords is a space shooter with a third-person view of your spaceship plus other features. There is a tactical management part to the game and a minimal form of RPG. The problem is that it tries to do many things but ends up not excelling at anything because every aspect is treated in a little in-depth way. Game Camera (4.5/10): The view, as I wrote, is at a fixed point at a short distance from your spaceship, too close to it, and there are no other views. You can rotate the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So many bugs and explains absolutely nothing, even worse with xbox controller on geforce now. feel like ive completely wasted 13 hours of my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A genuinely great little space game. If you want X without the complexity, straightforward sandbox joy, give it a shot, it still holds up well.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great game. 3rd person flight. some light rts mechanics. with fleet building. simple controls. I would love warlords 2.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is game is to put it simply, a pile of ♥♥♥♥ wrapped in gold paper. The game starts nicely, and you do kinda look forward to it. But then you realize one simple thing, this game is pointless mix of pointless things put together. 1. Campaign -> Fight, Grind, Fight, Grind aka tutorial. And it is not good at it. 2. Space map you are expecting epic space battles, but, enemy is simply keeping up with your level, aka if you can ride crusers enemy is full of crusers. It becomes so saturated that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great star ship simulator. Started the game with a tiny ship and a pop gun, ended the game with Capitol ships and the king of the known universe. Feels a little grindy at the beginning, but give it a chance and it will definitely get much better.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Haven't seen anyone mention Starpoint Gemini. Warlords was probably the best iteration. Kinda like Eve but single player and a half way decent story.
unlabelledView post →Alright, I have played and finished the main game. i have played with the titans. ps they are fun. titan from main story automatically harvests wrecks and legion is a necromancer ship. you kill it ship comes back as an ally but you need to farm the wrecks yourself. in the titan story the legion in the story as an enemy summons ships out of no where. when you play with it yourself doesnt work that way have to kill stuff first and they only last for 40 seconds but even still so much fun. for that…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Maybe the best space game I have ever enjoyed: a lot of ship costumization, an open galaxy (not like Starfield with it's silly loading screens), a boarding-minigame and piracy is an option, factions to join, fight or conquer... I love it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros: The flying/fighting with your ship is pretty fun. Lots of buttons to press to give you an edge in the space fights (shooting, firing missiles, changing ship power, locking on, boarding, using powers, using equipment, etc) allowing you to take on massive fights and prevail. Very fun and engaging. Lots of different types and styles of ships to fly and different weapons/equipment to use. Cons: Everything else sucks. The trading/mining is pointless. The diplomacy seems under developed. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For some reason fcks up you mouse sensitivity in OS, despite the game being turned off...
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