Startopia

My Little Planet Ltd Mucky Foot Productions Ltd

Released: Oct 10, 2013
Platforms: Windows
Last updated: 06 Sep 2026, 08:45 GMT

Updates & announcements

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09 May 2021Developer post
Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 3 - 9th May 2021
What's New? - The game now renders aspect ratios other than 4:3. - Gem Slugs now animate in slug pods. - New bubble goo effect in slug pods. - New effect for scutters cleaning up junk. - New swing door effect on bars...less snappy, but still glitchy. - Limited UHD screen modes as
What's New? - The game now renders aspect ratios other than 4:3. - Gem Slugs now animate in slug pods. - New bubble goo effect in slug pods. - New effect for scutters cleaning up junk. - New swing door effect on bars...less snappy, but still glitchy. - Limited UHD screen modes as a temporary measure to prevent crashes. Bugs Fixed - Fixed a couple of issues where Gem Slugs got stuck and died in slug pods:

- An old code fudge that expected an animation to be present, but which wasn't was Gem Slugs.
- A stat which allows races to sober up when they've passed out, was missing for Gem Slugs.
- Fixed the interpolation on the segment breach graphical effect. - Fixed the interpolation on the temple arriving graphical effect. - Fixed the interpolation on the gunner's scan effect. - Fixed a bug where a save game containing unrecognised script elements crashed the game.
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14 Mar 2021Developer post
Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 2 - 14th March 2021
Bugs Fixed - Fixed an issue where visitor stat notifications were being thrown up at the start of new games. - Fixed an issue where loading an autosave immediately triggered a fresh autosave. - Attempted to fix an 'unexpected rounding mode' assertion.
28 Feb 2021Developer post
Startopia 1.01.1 Beta 1 - 28th February 2021
Beta 1 (1.01.1-b1) - 28th February 2021 ======================================= What's New The original 1.01 source code* compiled in VS2019 via the C++14 language standard. Ability to mouse click through the splash screen after the first time the game's launched. Bugs Fixed Fixe
Beta 1 (1.01.1-b1) - 28th February 2021 ======================================= What's New

The original 1.01 source code* compiled in VS2019 via the C++14 language standard.
Ability to mouse click through the splash screen after the first time the game's launched.
Bugs Fixed

Fixed an async file handling issue, which caused a "Startopia always running" bug. Not sure if it's *the* "Startopia always running" bug reported on the Steam forums though.
Fixed a startup crash where a previous Win2K bodge wasn't calling GetFileVersionInfo correctly.
Fixed a startup crash where the game expected to find a 16bpp device by default, and seemed to fall apart horribly if it couldn't.
* Possibly not the original 1.01 source code! Huge huge thanks to TomF for recently finding his 1.02 unofficial patch source code though, from which I hopefully cherry-picked the correct 1.01 bits. ==================================================================================
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28 Feb 2021Developer post
Teeny tiny update - 28th February 2021
The smallest of updates: Updated the splash screen. Added MLP release notes file.
The smallest of updates:

Updated the splash screen.
Added MLP release notes file.
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22 Mar 2016Rock, Paper, Shotgun
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26 Oct 2013Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Retro: Startopia
‘Twas an odd coincidence that Startopia and Double Fine’s Spacebase DF-9 alpha arrived on Steam so hot on each other’s heels. The current paucity of activities in the latter would have had me hankering for the former even if a digital postman were not able to immediately deliver
24 Oct 2013Rock, Paper, Shotgun
It Is The Future, The Year 2001: An HD Startopia Gallery
Hello, faithful word-consumer. Would you care to also consume images this day? I have been replaying post-Bullfrog outfit Mucky Foot’s wonderful 2001 management game Startopia, which recently saw a re-release on Steam (as well as having been on GoG for some time prior to that). I