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StarRupture

You’re looking for raw materials that you can process with the machines you build. You need to send what you gathered back to the major corporations on Earth through wormholes to reduce your sentence. Be careful! You do that in a world where fatal expeditions are considered acceptable losses.

You are sent to Arcadia-7 on a mission to excavate for planetary minerals and reduce your sentence. Casualties caused by lethal conditions are ignored, and expeditions continue of course. It certainly gave me an amazing experience although it is an early release.

StarRupture is a stunning open-world survival game on Arcadia-7, an alien planet! A story that takes place in the year 2201, where criminals are sent to distant planets to serve their sentence. It certainly managed to make me want to play it with my friends, although it is still an early access version!

REVIEW BY: Mohamed, JJ

GAME INFO

GENRE:

Action, Adventure, Shooter

Developer

Creepy Jar

Publisher

Creepy Jar

Release Date:

6 Jan 2026

RATING

Gameplay

Visuals

Sound design

Performance

DAWN

OF ORDER

Major corporations are your best shot at survival. They’re your only source of information and blueprints which will help you survive this planet. Giving you mining technology and food recipes. Combat weapons and logistics as well!

During that time, you need to be in your habitat because it is protected by your base core shield. You reorganize your factory to better assemble the components.

You learn in the first hour or so how to scavenge build and automate the basic stuff. To unlock new technology for further advancement, you need to complete corporates tasks. This helps improve life quality and basically provides everything.

You scavenge the planet for raw material to build a factory that will extract and process materials for you automatically, then send the compounds back to the Mega companies during your jail time.

Be careful though, as the Star Ruptures roughly every 30-60 minutes. As soon as the heatwave erupts, a massive firestorm arrives wiping everything unprotected.

Arachnids will destroy all your production systems, sabotage your buildings and cripple your entire process. Guns and rifle sounds are simply impeccable! Shooting in StarRupture is surprisingly really good, with a mechanism that definitely exceeded my expectations.

You build massive systems under pressure which makes it rewarding in the end, as you have control over a lot of stuff, starting with power grids and machines, to defense and logistics networks. Your mission is to turn a chaos-filled place into a fine-tuned automated factory that helps you survive this alien planet.

Overall, the combat experience was really good without making it an all-action kind of game. One of the very good things is that shooting is not complex, yet still effective, with a really good experience.

Slow-

Burn Action

Although StarRupture is still in early access it still left quite an impression. An outstanding open-world where you explore and eliminate threats on a mission not only to survive but also to scavenge and create a life.

You eventually send everything processed and refined back to Earth through your Orbital Launchers. Of course, Arachnids won’t leave you alone, as these Monsters tend to get out of their holes as the planet starts to heat up!

The real challenge is not looking for Raw materials, it involves a lotmore than that. Scavenging, processing, and refining them to high-end products that would be valuable to the major corporations. You place excavators on resource deposits looking for Ores and use smelters and fabricators to process everything.

Resource and

Combat Systems

Arachnids always attack in hordes, and some of them would even wait and ambush you all of a sudden.

Gunplay emphasizes strategy against hordes as you need to manage your ammo especially before a Starrupture.

We can see that developers are active on various channels and are working on fixing a lot of stuff. I loved the game and can’t wait for the final release!

I would say that the game is worth it, but it still needs a bit of improvement in regard to quality of life. Don’t get me started on the AI assistant which keeps nagging in the background nonstop. Developers should also include more enemy variety, as it’s just a few variations of the same arachnid family.

For example Fast travel or vehicle systems since it’s quite a big map. Building placement needs improvement as well, and a better tutorial would definitely help.

Starrupture definitely left a really good impression. Although it’s the early access version of the game, it shows a high level in its core mechanics, with outstanding graphics and audio. You might stumble upon a few bugs however they should be fixed in no time in the upcoming updates.