Loading game...
Star Citizen is a sandbox open-world MMO "SpaceSim" by Cloud Imperium Games. Explore the 'verse, fight, trade, and more when you play Sta...
Star Citizen is a massively multiplayer space simulation developed by Cloud Imperium Games, in active development since 2012 and funded by over $700 million in crowdfunding. The game combines first-person shooting, space flight, trading, mining, and exploration in a persistent universe built at an unprecedented scale.
As of August 2026, the live game is on Alpha 4.10. The update brings the Siege of Orison event back to Crusader and continues the 4.x cycle of persistent-universe, server, mission, ship, and quality-of-life work. Star Citizen remains an alpha: features, balance, performance, and persistence rules can change between releases.
Star Citizen lets you walk around space stations, board your ship on foot, fly seamlessly from a planet's surface into orbit, and quantum travel to other star systems. Combat happens on the ground with FPS mechanics and in space with full Newtonian flight physics. Mining, cargo hauling, bounty hunting, and medical rescue are all viable career paths.
Server meshing technology, which allows multiple servers to work together to support larger player counts in the same area, continues to be expanded. Cloud Imperium publishes frequent Comm-Link updates and roadmap roundups, but roadmap items should be treated as development targets rather than guaranteed release dates.
No other game attempts what Star Citizen is building. The fidelity of its ships, environments, and physics simulation is unmatched. Walking through a Carrack, manning its turrets, launching a snub fighter from its bay, and landing on an uncharted moon is an experience that exists nowhere else in gaming.