METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Game
Game2023Published by indie.io
Stars End
Developer Reverie World Studios
Stars End is a sci-fi survival sandbox set on the wild frontier of a distant star system. Play solo or host your own server as you craft, build, and battle to survive in a galaxy shaped by danger, discovery, and your own grit. From the Steam store page
187 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
34
Rotten
63 positive · 120 negative
95% range 28–42%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 63 | 120 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
4 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
868 of 1,432 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Players are overwhelmingly negative, calling the game abandoned and buggy.
Many players describe the game as abandoned and unplayable, with development ceasing shortly after release. They report severe bugs, missing features, and no official servers. [3][15][18][25][26][31]
A minority of players praise the game's potential and the developers' dedication, noting frequent updates and an engaging survival-crafting loop. However, they acknowledge it is early access and needs polish. [1][2][4][8][11][12]
Praised potential · dedicated devs · addictive gameplay
Criticised abandoned · buggy · unfinished · no servers
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 7, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 187 · most liked firstKudos to the devs who promised adding offline single player do Stars End even though the game was originally only multiplayer, they finally did it: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/623340/view/3672159858141503834 They have been really had at work recently, I think it's important to recognize their dedication, plus I'm really enjoying the game even though it still requires some polish. I can't wait to spend more time in it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No working official server, no Private servers, Dead game. Refunded as can only play single player game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Please take this crap off my steam list, You can keep my money... im sick and tired of you pretend devs. Stop starting things YOU DONT HAVE HEART OR PASSION TO FINISH.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy, Abandonware in a very poor state that hasn't had an update sing Aug 23 and seemingly no longer has any servers. Very disappointing as it had great potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, there hasn't been an update for a pretty long time, and it seems as though the devs are just done with this game. This is why i will NEVER EVER EVER EVER support another developer like you people. You make a game with a great concept, you promise a whole lot, you release an alpha or beta that plays like a playstation 2 game, and then you leave with our money and run. Its disgusting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the worst survival games developed. Here's a list of problems encountered within 9 hours: 1: Dying can (sometimes? seemed every time) send your loot into midair, leaving it impossible to get your things back. 2: The only way to process materials is to go to one select location on a planet. Meaning everyones base is in the exact same area as close to the refinery as possible. 3: The only way to get certain materials is from a pre-determined mine that would be mined completely out if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is abandoned and Has not been fixed for years. Dont buy
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dont waste your time or money. It was VERY minimally decent when they were working on it but it has been abandoned since 2023.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Garbage, Abandonware. Do not buy - You have been warned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →KAMGUSTA's MINI REVIEW Game released on January 2023 and developers abandoned it only 1 year later, on January 2024. Project was too ambitious and game come out half baked and full of bugs (to the point of being almost unplayable). Don't waste your time and money on this one. Best played with keyboard & mouse Recommended buy price: free Score: 4/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow United Critics for quality reviews Star End Review Explore this survival, adventure open world game. Find and unlock vehicles or spacecrafts to faster explore the planet or visit new ones while searching for ores and material. Star end is still in its beta versions and needs a lot of updates to make the gameplay much smoother. Like the developers have said themselves, “We’re excited to finally have the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On the surface it looks like its going to be a good game. Then you buy it and find that game is so basic and lacking in everything. The game is lacking in everything that makes the game fun. Its just a wanna be survival game. Now I will say that balance of eating and drinking is done very well. Building a base and getting tools is not bad either. Overall the gathering of items is done right. The downfall of this game comes from the lack of progression, you dont feel like your progressing or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's poo, pure poo.! Steam peeps need to vet the Game Devs they allow to ask for our money. This was broken promises and pure greed. There just needs to be more policing of scummy game Devs/Studio creators. This kind of feels criminal how these jokers hauled butt with a completely unfinished unpolished turd of a game. Karma is real JackHoles!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alpha, clunky, yet addicting. Like Empyrion but simpler. On the other hand, lots of potential and proactive devs, updates flow in frequently. If you get it cheaper somewhere it is worth it in its current state. Try it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy and abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfinished and abandoned. Save your money and look elsewhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →19.99$ worth of bugs and nothingness seriously DO NOT BUY IT! -solid 3/10 honestly - character movements are just funny -graphics sucks -physics are all over the place -BUGGGGSSSS just buggy -stuttering and micro freezes making this game even more annoying and its been 2 years since the last MAJOR UPDATE so i would say devs dont care about this game at all but started pretty interesting i actually bought 2 copies for me and my brother and we still cant enjoy the game so yeah SKIP THIS ONE!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cool concept but now its released I cant recommend it at all. It certainly aint finished or fit to be out of early access but yet it is. I do hope the devs continue to develop the game and improve it as the potential is there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a nice concept. But i think its just dead. Released to soon and unfinshed. there is almost nothing to do...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Trash game. Actually forgot I had this until I looked at my library to see what to play next. XD DO NOT BUY THIS GAME IT IS ABANDONED AND DEAD! Please report the game as abandoned and unplayable so Steam can remove it from the store. I played 7 hours of it and tried to be 'into it' however the devs kept breaking it and now it is abandoned. Due to Steams mental thing of not refunding past a certain timeframe, I am unable to recoup my investment into this trash game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, this is a dead game. Development has ended and it never even made it out of EA. This game had a really cool idea which if completed would have been a really amazing space survival game that checked all the boxes. unfortunately, they lost their main developer or something and nobody was able to go in behind and take up the torch. Idk. Kinda sucks. Honestly it should be delisted if development is no longer going to continue. Not put on sale for the Spring Steam. Do. Not. Buy.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just another piece of abandonware before it even stepped out of its diapers. Really ticks me off that devs take your money and then just dissapear.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 buggy mess and online has been shut down im told start up the game and get [PLEASE WAIT] its been 13 minutes.... [PLEASE WAIT] its been 18 minutes.... [PLEASE WAIT] reset the game and it loads in 5 seconds!!! try to start a new character but the box where you name them didnt appear as well as a few other things needed to build a character. wasnt able to continue reset the game and it loads fine this time letting me start up a game play for a bit quit and come back later now when i load the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Save your money this game has so much bug it will have you pulling your hair out, And if you give it a break and come back...Your char is deleted and you have to start all over again
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you know what this game looks like? Well... It looks like the devs ran out of funds to COMPLETE the game and they realeased a DEFINITELY BETA game (early access) as a 1.0, so they can get more money fast... the only thing I´m hopping is that they actually use the money to COMPLETE this EARLY ACCESS game. LOTS of bugs, bugs that actually affect your game experience. Steam should definitely change the 3 hrs or less to get a refund, in these kind of games 3 hours is nothing to realize you just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is somewhat addicting, but... It is buggiest game I ever played. Lost everything do to bugs. Fell through the ground three times couldn't get my loot. Third respawn I slowly took stuff to storage. Earned money by selling things. Bought a space suit and went to the moon. I got murdered there while mining. Didn't have money for another space suit. Doesn't matter because when I finally got to my stuff all it said was 'this isn't your stuff.' The servers are down half the time.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refund requested. Animations are horrible, graphics look like something out of 2005 Voice over sounds like it was phoned in on a bad land line. This game needs a LOT of work before it can be considered ready for consumption. Not sure where they graphics came from that they show in the advertised videos, but that is NOT what you get in the game at all. Might be a good game with another 3-5 years of work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In its current state, the game just is not good. And since the last update was in October 2023 at the time of this review, it seems like it will not get better. It is buggy and just not fun. Would not recommend in it's current state even if it was free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →devs gave up. dead game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game had potential but has now been left to die. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!! The Devs gave up on it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The presentation on the store page is a total lie, I was presented a space survival shooter i got a unity asset flip with some of the worse primitive survival i have ever seen. No updates in over a year so it appears to be dead as well Just pass on it, this feels like a project some people started that had no business starting in the first place.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really tried enjoying this game and had good expectations from it, but the updates that release are very far apart and do not seem to really fix anything that is broken. I still cannot pick my vehicle up without it just disappearing from existence. This happened with my vehicle and space ship, and now 6+ months later, the problem has not been resolved, nor does it seem that is will be resolved anytime soon. This is just one of the many many bugs of the game. Pass on the game for now, this is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unless a new developer takes control, the game is dead and will not be coming back. It should be delisted from Steam to prevent people from buying an unfinished product.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandonware, time to download Empyrion. So far this is an empty universe/sandbox. It doesnt hold up to the competition alas.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I purchased Stars End back in 2021, I was convinced that there was massive potential for this game. Unfortunately, after 3 years of patient waiting, there has been very little in the ways of advancement, so I feel its right to state that all hope is now lost for this game. Its a great shame that Stars End has not been able to thrive into a game that it has the potential for, however judging by the development rate, its not going to be worth the wait.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →very unstable game, even unstable in offline mode
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOT READY FOR RELEASE. This is defiantly an early access Beta game and needs to be marketed as such. I was shocked to see how crappy someone could make the Unreal Engine look. It looks like they didn't spend any money to get assets from Unreal and tried to develop their own or use free ones. Whichever the case they failed. I think they "Released" the game to try a money grab before they abandoned it. I might be wrong, but we have seen this many times before from these developers. I hope I am…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was abandoned. Shouldn't even be listed on steam anymore. Do NOT purchase this game. You have yourself to blame if you do otherwise.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned. Another early access game that exemplifies why we should wait for full release. Pathetic.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →abandoned game, was kind of trash anyway dont worry about it you didnt miss much here
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First, I want to say this game is still in its early stages. There are bugs and glitches. It will be annoying at times. However, this game has the most potential I've seen in a long time. 3 programmers are developing this game so it will take time to smooth over and develop. You start as a colonist with the clothes on your back. From there, you make everything you need to survive. You have towns, spaceports, horses, bikes, trucks, ships(shuttles and big Capital ships you make and purchase…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This games problem is that too much preassembled design pieces have been thrown together and they conflict with each other regularly. i hope the devs can sort this out and refine their game. would be an immensely cool game. For now i can not recommend Stars End to players, who expect a full game. It is also an unwise move to enable an "mmo-mode" and have so many game interrupting little bugs present to demotivate to actually stay on the server, so the game is largely empty. you see a lot of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stars End is a game with a long and rocky history. Initially released in Early Access with ambitious promises, the game attempted to blend space exploration, base-building, and survival mechanics into one cohesive experience. Unfortunately, many of these mechanics have remained broken or incomplete for years, leaving players like myself frustrated and disillusioned. For much of its life cycle Stars End struggled to meet the expectations set by its own ambitious premise. From clunky controls to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was gutted and left in a Dead on Arrival state when "released" leaving us with the absolute minimal trash version of a great up and coming game(for an asset flip...)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a dead game It's just something that is put out to grab a quick dollar. Here today, gone tomorrow.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is ROUGH! Bought it on sale for a bit more than 10$. Watched a video on YouTube to see if I would enjoy this game, and it looked alright. But then I played it. The swaying of the camera with the head is off putting, and your character constantly looking down to "check his nails", even when mining, in mid swing is awkward. Floors missing in some buildings. Rain in the ship that originally spawn in, on the lower levels. Objects hovering in mid air.... They say this was released in Jan…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would love to leave something positive here.. the main server has been down longer than ive owned the game alot of random bugs during gameplay.. hopefully stuff gets better soon cause the game itself is pretty sick aside from the GIANT issues pointed out. Another thing. imagine using auto land and assuming your ship would land on the ground.. you hop out the seat while landing you go to door wait for it to stop.. hop out fall to nearly your death.. now 7km away at your secret base with your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Landing Bugs and many other Bugs. Would be a great game if not for some of them. Lost my ship twice due to bad landings and everything I had.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Abandoned EA Game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's as though whoever developed this game just found whatever assets they could use (sci fi, 20th century roads, cowboys etc.) and then threw them willy nilly into the world because this game doesn't know what it wants to be. I'm usually a fan of, and have a lot of time for these kinds of Indy projects but there is no coherence to this game whatsoever which makes it jarring to play and gives it a very cheap feel overall. Let me give an example with a similar (better) game: Empyrion…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Never passed barely functional and has since been abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i think development on this title has ended, i haven't seen this game updated in awhile since 26 of Aug 2022 i believe, the devs website shows an not found error and nothing posted on socials for ages.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is not finished. The current state (April 2023) seems as pre-alpha.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Literally the worst survival/crafting game I have EVER played. Voice acting is terrible, physics are terrible, animations and screenbob are terrible, can't change mouse sensitivity. Everything about this game is absolutely awful
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game never worked correctly. I don't know how many times I went through the effort of crafting things that had simply disappeared when I logged back in. It was an ongoing problem they never seemed able to fix.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game contains many more unresolved bugs and glitches than one would expect from a game that had been properly beta-tested, many of which are more than merely annoying, and also lacks many obvious features that would have streamlined gameplay. In addition to those very serious faults, the textual part of the game is awash in egregious errors in English-language usage, grammar, and spelling. There are many other games of similar type that offer much better value for money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been a big suppporter of this project for a while now, but, this last change was done so poorly that I can no longer support it. The devs are nice, there are only 3 of them I guess, but they spend more time apologizing for the failures than they do fixing them. So much that their apologies are beginning to sound rehearsed and not sincere. Pretty much scripted. I'll revisit in a year (if I'm still living), and give it another look.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The spring semester just started for me, so there may be a bit less art😭 The Where Stars End grind is going very well, though! And I think I'll be starting the CGs for the full game pretty soon! I'm really excited to share more of that and I hope you guys are too :D
unlabelledView post →Unless you enjoy janky university project level games, you're not missing anything by not playing it. All but a few of my hours are from the beginning of the game, when it seemed as if it still held promise. Though, before long, it was obvious, to me, it was going nowhere fast. These years later, and some things have changed, not all for the better - and still the game still feels, looks and plays like a janky university project, as it did back then. Was hoping they would pull something…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is broken and abandoned not to mention it is still on steam to this day and should have been removed ages ago when it got abandoned
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