A modern, cross-platform launcher for Space Station 14, built by the Starlight Team.
Starlight Launcher is a modern, community-built alternative launcher for Space Station 14.
Created by the Starlight Team, it focuses on:
- 🎨 A modern, responsive UI that doesn't feel like a 2010 desktop app
- 🔧 Advanced customization - from launch behaviour down to build sources
- 🧩 An extensible architecture where new UI and services plug in cleanly
Note
Starlight Launcher is an unofficial community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the official Space Station 14 developers.
| 👥 Multi-account support | Manage and switch between several accounts without re-logging every time |
| 🎛️ Rich launcher settings | Fine-grained control over how the game launches, updates and caches content |
| 🎨 Theme customization | Personalize the look and feel of the launcher |
| 💬 Discord integration | Rich Presence statuses and OAuth login |
| 🌍 Localization | Fully localized UI with runtime language switching |
| 🛰️ Configurable build CDNs | Prioritized, mirror-aware engine sources with signature verification |
| 👥 Multi-auth support | You can use different auth servers! |
| 🔔 Tray integration | Collapse to tray on minimize or close, native to each platform |
| 🗺️ Round details | Map, game mode, round id and panic bunker state right in the server card |
| 📈 Server activity | Heatmap of when people actually play on your favorite servers |
| 🔕 Server watches | Notifications on lobby, new round, player count or a free slot, plus auto-connect |
| 📝 Notes and ratings | Private notes and star ratings for servers, sortable in the list |
| 📒 Journal | Play time per server and day, rounds you played with ids and maps, a yearly summary |
| 🎬 Replays | Browse and watch Starlight replays in one click, linked to the rounds you played |
| 🧑🤝🧑 Friends | Friend list through the Starlight account, with the server each friend is on |
- .NET - core framework
- Avalonia - cross-platform native shell (window, tray, dialogs)
- Blazor - UI layer, hosted in-process
- MudBlazor - Material-inspired Blazor component library
- Serilog - structured logging across launcher and client
- Space Station 14 Launcher API - server, hub and auth integration
- .NET SDK 11.0 (currently in preview - final release expected November 2026)
- Visual Studio 2022–2026, JetBrains Rider, or VS Code with the C# Dev Kit
git clone https://github.com/ss14Starlight/Starlight.Launcher.git
cd Starlight.Launcher
dotnet restore
dotnet run --project Starlight.Launcher- Code - licensed under the MIT License.
- Non-code assets (icons, sound files, etc.) - licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 unless stated otherwise.