Beyond These Stars
Fan-Made WikiBeyond These Stars is the space-whale city builder from Balancing Monkey Games, published by Hooded Horse — build a sprawling city on the back of Kewa the space whale, manage supply chains and your people's needs as you journey through the galaxy seeking purpose and answers. Released at 1.0 on October 16, 2026 after skipping early access entirely, with a 20% launch discount on Steam. This wiki covers it from launch day: the beginner guides, the resource and supply chain mechanics, city layout tips, Kewa and the journey, and how it connects to Before We Leave.
Fresh From the Whaleback
Beyond These Stars 1.0 Launch Guide: Editions, Price and Platforms
Beyond These Stars: Beginner's First City
Beyond These Stars: The Complete Guide
Resources and Supply Chains in Beyond These Stars
Buildings and People: The Needs Ladder in Beyond These Stars
Kewa and the Journey: The Whale Is the World
Beyond These Stars vs Before We Leave
Beyond These Stars FAQ
Your First City In Four Steps
From Landing to a Thriving Whaleback City
Know the Game
Beyond These Stars released at 1.0 on October 16, 2026 — the complete guide explains the space-whale premise, the developers' journey and what the launch includes.
Plan the First City
The whaleback is a curved, living landscape — the beginner's first city guide covers districts, terrain and the layouts that scale.
Master the Chains
Resources move through supply chains, not magic — the supply chain guide maps extraction, processing and delivery the way the game actually wants it.
Care for Your People
Pequeninos have needs beyond food — the systems pages cover housing, work, education and the happiness mechanics that decide a city's fate.
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Beyond These Stars 1.0 Launch Guide: Editions, Price and Platforms
The Beyond These Stars 1.0 launch guide — what the full release includes, the early access skip explained, launch pricing and where to buy.
Beyond These Stars: Beginner's First City
The beginner's guide to your first city in Beyond These Stars — landing site, first district, the food-and-wood loop, and when to expand along the whale.
Beyond These Stars: The Complete Guide
The complete guide to Beyond These Stars — the space-whale city builder from Balancing Monkey Games, the 1.0 launch that skipped early access, and everything before your first landing.
Resources and Supply Chains in Beyond These Stars
How goods actually move on a whale — the Beyond These Stars supply chain guide: extraction, processing tiers, delivery loops, storage placement and the bottleneck mistakes.
Buildings and People: The Needs Ladder in Beyond These Stars
Housing, work, education and happiness in Beyond These Stars — the citizen needs ladder, what to build in what order, and the needs new mayors miss until it's late.
Kewa and the Journey: The Whale Is the World
Kewa the space whale and the galactic journey in Beyond These Stars — building on a living curved landscape, districts along the anatomy, and what the stars bring.
Beyond These Stars vs Before We Leave
Beyond These Stars against Before We Leave — what carried over from the planet-based original, what the whale changes, and which game for which builder.
Beyond These Stars FAQ
Straight answers about Beyond These Stars — the 1.0 launch, platforms and pricing, Kewa the space whale, and how it connects to Before We Leave.
Beyond These Stars 1.0 Launch Guide: Editions, Price and Platforms
The Beyond These Stars 1.0 launch guide — what the full release includes, the early access skip explained, launch pricing and where to buy.
Beyond These Stars: Beginner's First City
The beginner's guide to your first city in Beyond These Stars — landing site, first district, the food-and-wood loop, and when to expand along the whale.
Beyond These Stars: The Complete Guide
The complete guide to Beyond These Stars — the space-whale city builder from Balancing Monkey Games, the 1.0 launch that skipped early access, and everything before your first landing.
Resources and Supply Chains in Beyond These Stars
How goods actually move on a whale — the Beyond These Stars supply chain guide: extraction, processing tiers, delivery loops, storage placement and the bottleneck mistakes.
Buildings and People: The Needs Ladder in Beyond These Stars
Housing, work, education and happiness in Beyond These Stars — the citizen needs ladder, what to build in what order, and the needs new mayors miss until it's late.
Kewa and the Journey: The Whale Is the World
Kewa the space whale and the galactic journey in Beyond These Stars — building on a living curved landscape, districts along the anatomy, and what the stars bring.
Beyond These Stars vs Before We Leave
Beyond These Stars against Before We Leave — what carried over from the planet-based original, what the whale changes, and which game for which builder.
Beyond These Stars FAQ
Straight answers about Beyond These Stars — the 1.0 launch, platforms and pricing, Kewa the space whale, and how it connects to Before We Leave.
What Is Beyond These Stars?
Beyond These Stars is a city-building strategy game from Balancing Monkey Games, the New Zealand studio behind Before We Leave, published by strategy specialists Hooded Horse. Your people — the Pequeninos — settle on the back of Kewa, a space whale swimming through the galaxy, and you build their civilization across that living, curved landscape: homes and schools, farms and factories, supply chains stretching from the whale's fin to its tail, all while the journey unfolds and the stars outside change.
The development story is part of the game's identity: originally planned for early access, the studio announced in March 2026 that Beyond These Stars would skip that phase entirely and ship as a complete 1.0 — and on October 16, 2026, it did, launching on Steam and the Epic Games Store with a 20% launch discount. This wiki is the launch-day companion: the guides, the mechanics, the comparisons, written from play and updated as the community maps the whale.
Explore All GuidesDeveloper
Balancing Monkey
Publisher
Hooded Horse
Genre
City Builder
The Whale
Kewa
Platforms
Steam / Epic
Status
1.0 Out Now
Everything on the Whaleback, Mapped
Guides, systems, comparisons and answers — the complete toolkit.
Beyond These Stars Guide
The complete orientation.
Beginner's First City
The opening hours, planned.
Resources & Supply Chains
The game's beating heart.
The delivery loops that run themselves
Processing tiers — raw to refined to goods
Storage placement on a curved map
The bottleneck mistakes every new city makes
The 1.0 Launch Guide
What shipped and what's next.
1.0Full release October 16, 2026 — what's included, the launch discount and where to buyKewa & the Journey
The whale is the world.
Buildings & People
Needs beyond food.
Housing, work and the happiness foundations
Education and the advancement chain
Amenities — what to build and in what order
The needs new players miss until it's late
vs Before We Leave
The semi-sequel question.
FAQ
The straight answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the most common questions about Beyond These Stars.
The whaleback is open.
The guides, the mechanics, the comparisons — everything to build a thriving city on Kewa from day one.