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About Barnard's Star

Snipe your friends, electrocute your enemies and rain down acidic slime in the Barnard’s Star system, 6 light years from Earth. A multiplayer, turn-based tactics battler with no micro-transactions and no random chance — ingenuity is the only way to victory!

Features:
- Choose between 3 warring factions: Humans, Robots, and Critters
- Do battle with 30 characters using dozens of unique attacks and abilities
- Conquer 18 different maps set on space stations and intergalactic ships
- Play offline vs. AI or locally against a friend
- Challenge friends and strangers with online multiplayer

What's New in the Latest Version 19e

Last updated on Dec 9, 2023

Old Versions

- New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes
- Fixes for tutorial, Medic, Lurker replay issue, login issues, and crashes

Version History

19e

Dec 9, 2023

19d

Nov 29, 2023

19b

Nov 15, 2023

- New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes
- Fixes for tutorial and Medic

19a

Nov 8, 2023

- New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes

18g

Jun 24, 2023

Bugfix update building upon the teams feature that was added last update! Fixes several minor bugs, as well as some issues with the new maps.

Last update brought team play to the game! Grab a buddy and challenge some enemies for 2v2 mayhem. 3 new four-player maps have also been added. There have also been some balance changes for the three newest characters: Lurker, Architect, and Omnibus. Many bugs have also been fixed.

18e

Jun 13, 2023

This update brings team play to the game! Grab a buddy and challenge some enemies for 2v2 mayhem. 3 new four-player maps have also been added. There have also been some balance changes for the three newest characters: Lurker, Architect, and Omnibus. Many bugs have also been fixed.

18d

Apr 16, 2023

- Fixed: Grey cone squares on Transit map are no longer walkable.
- Fixed: Automechanics’ Oil Change ability now properly heals teammates.
- Fixed: Replay issues when waiting for an opponent to take a turn in real-time.
- New: Unstarted game lobbies will now be automatically deleted after 5 days.

18c

Apr 3, 2023

Balance changes:
- Lurker's Burrows now cannot be used when there is another fighter standing on the other end. This prevents their use on the first turn of their creation.
- Acid Junkie's primary attack has been changed from Acid Punch (3 damage) to Unarmed (2 damage).

The "Transit" map has been adjusted so that the north-south bases are not so close to the center of the map. The map is now symmetrical both horizontally and vertically.

Lots of bugfixes!

18b

Mar 9, 2023

Several fixes for minor issues and bugs. Server performance improvements for submitting turns and joining games.

18a

Mar 1, 2023

This release adds support for 3-4 player games! Two new team colors (green and purple) have been added for 3-4 player games. Additionally, this update kicks off Season 3 with three new characters sporting brand-new abilities and attacks, as well as 3 new maps, lots of balance changes, and new player badges.

17d

Nov 27, 2022

Customize your profile by choosing an icon from your badges and the fighters you’ve unlocked. Use the new in-app friends system to add friends and invite them to games. Also includes several bugfixes and improvements. For full patch notes see: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17d/

17c

Oct 12, 2022

Lots of bugfixes for the new content introduced with the last patch! See full patch notes here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17b

17b

Oct 10, 2022

Lots of bugfixes for the new content introduced with the last patch! See full patch notes here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17b

17a

Sep 11, 2022

Version 17a, which kicks off Season 2! Lots of changes:
- 3 new units, one for each faction
- 3 new maps, one for each background
- Lots of balance changes
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of quality of life fixes
For full change notes, see here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17a/

16e

Jul 26, 2022

- Display badges and recent games on player profiles
- Display 24h player count in info tab
- Fix for hanging at end of game
- Fix tutorial broken by last update
- Fix for mashing undo button clearing the map

16d

Jul 17, 2022

- Adds ability to change username
- Adds playback controls for watching TV games
- Fixes bugs where errors in playback of opponent's turn would cause your own turn not to start properly

16c

Jul 1, 2022

Adds font support for unicode and emoji characters. Stores fighter unlocks on server so they can be used across devices.

1.16b

Jun 28, 2022

- Allow most character unlocks to happen in vs. AI games
- Several bugfixes for the game getting stuck, especially vs. AI
- Bugfix for psion only getting 3/5 movement back after a kill
- Bugfix so sniper can get killed by stepping on a landmine, instead of healing to full because she killed someone (lol)

This is a backwards compatible update, so existing games will still be able to be played. I'll pause timeouts for a couple days to give everyone a chance to update.

1.16

Jun 27, 2022

- Allow most character unlocks to happen in vs. AI games
- Several bugfixes for the game getting stuck, especially vs. AI
- Bugfix for psion only getting 3/5 movement back after a kill
- Bugfix so sniper can get killed by stepping on a landmine, instead of healing to full because she killed someone (lol)

This is a backwards compatible update, so existing games will still be able to be played. We'll pause timeouts for a couple days to give everyone a chance to update.

1.15

Jun 6, 2022

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