
Starhaul
A downloadable game for Windows
STARHAUL is an active solo-developed project built with the help of Codex. All art and sound are created by me. Updates, fixes, and new content are being added over time as development continues.
This game is being made to help support my family as my wife battles cancer. This is also a passion project I have every intention on completing.
STARHAUL
STARHAUL is a top-down space sandbox focused on frontier industry, contract work, and dangerous open-space operations.
You start as a small independent pilot working out of an orbital dock on the edge of settled space. From there, you choose how to grow.
How You Grow
- Mine asteroid fields
- Scan signals and survey resources
- Salvage derelicts
- Refine raw materials into usable industrial goods
- Craft basic components
- Take faction and station contracts
- Fight or evade hostile ships
- Research new ship and industry upgrades
Current Build Focus
The current build is centered around the early-game frontier loop:
- Leave station
- Work the field
- Return with profit
- Improve your ship
- Head back out
Current Features
- Physics-based top-down ship flight
- Mining, scanning, salvage, and cargo hauling
- Station services including market, storage, refinery, crafting, shipyard, research, and mission board
- Faction-based contracts and progression
- Multi-mission tracking
- Guided introduction mission flow
- Hostile combat with lasers, missiles, shields, and boarding groundwork
- Research progression powered by scan data
- Use-based skill progression
- A living startup/menu presentation with in-world traffic and animated UI styling
Current State
This is an active playtest / early development build.
- Placeholder systems
- Incomplete content branches
- Balance changes between versions
- Ongoing UI and mission improvements
Planned Expansion
- More star systems
- Anomaly gameplay
- Deeper faction territory and station control
- Ship interiors and boarding expansion
- Larger research and specialization systems
- More advanced crafting and industrial progression
What STARHAUL Is
Not a power fantasy space shooter.
- A frontier work sim about mining
- Scanning
- Hauling
- Refining
- Surviving
- Slowly carving out a future in dangerous space
| Updated | 3 hours ago |
| Published | 2 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Author | TheScruffyGuy |
| Made with | Godot |
| Tags | 2D, Atmospheric, Procedural Generation, Relaxing, Sandbox, Sci-fi, Top-Down |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | English |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code |
Download
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Development log
- Store Page and Price Update3 hours ago
- Starhaul v0.1.31 day ago




