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Survive the island. Fight off the raids. Don't go into the big house.

PurpleStar is an open-world survival horror game. Scavenge a ruined city, build up your base, and stay alive through the nights, alone or with friends.

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The island

Something happened here. Nobody stayed to explain.

The island is a city of empty towers, a quiet neighborhood called Willow Creek, a port full of cranes and shipping containers, and the Haunted Woods to the south. By day you scavenge crates, chop wood and craft. When night falls, you want to be home behind your walls with the campfire lit.

Every 4 to 8 days the raiders march on your base. Kill them all to fight off the raid.

  • Your Base
  • Willow Creek
  • The City
  • The Port
  • Abandoned Docks
  • Haunted Woods
  • Raider Camp
  • The Mine
The houses of Willow Creek under a grey sky
Mob Index

Who's out there

Attack a creature to add it to your Mob Index. Some of them you'd rather never meet.

A crowd of the Mindless walking down a city street
Creature

The Mindless

Thin figures with glowing white eyes. They fill the city streets and come in hordes at night. They hate raiders as much as they hate you.

An Unhappy standing in the dark at night
Creature

The Unhappy

They only move while you aren't looking. They haunt Willow Creek at night, and once one smiles, it's much faster than you.

The walled Raider Camp in the woods
Humans

Raiders

Armed survivors from the Raider Camp. Bands of 5 to 7 attack your base. They shoot back, and they carry the assault rifle.

Your base at night, lit by the campfire
Boss

The Raider's General

He leads every raid, walks straight through gunfire and fights with his fists. His health bar shows at the top of the screen.

The big two-storey house in the middle of Willow Creek
Boss

The Deadly

Four times the size of an Unhappy. By day it waits in the big house. Look in the door and you'll see two white eyes in the dark. Don't go in. At nightfall it comes out.

3000 HP · Willow Creek · night
Features

What you do on the island

Build and defend a base

Walls with barbed wire, a bed you can move, a campfire to sit by at night. Raiders come for it every few days.

Three weapons

A pistol, an axe that hits hard, and a full-auto assault rifle with a 100-round drum, looted from the raiders.

1 pistol · 2 axe · 3 rifle

Drive through the city

A pickup, two sedans and an SUV wait in parking lots. Run the Mindless over, and watch the durability.

E get in · F headlights · Space brake

Play with friends

Start a server with one button, or host your own island. Party chat, a friends list and a server browser are built in.

Up to 16 players per server

Your account, your save

Log in with a unique username, save and come back later, and check your days survived, raids fought off and kills.

Play anywhere

Desktop, web browser and phone, with touch controls and a low-graphics mode.

Screenshots

From the island

The Mindless in the city
The city
Driving the pickup truck
Driving the pickup
The docks and the port
The port
The stairs down into the mine
The mine
The Mob Index book
Mob Index
Changelog

Every update

Newest first. Click an update to see what changed.

v1.5.2The Deadly Update: ServersNEW
  • Dedicated servers: press START A SERVER in Multiplayer and a server starts near you. It runs the whole island, so nobody's PC has to host.
  • Servers show up in the server browser marked [SERVER] and close themselves after 10 minutes with nobody on.
  • Much smoother multiplayer: movement, creatures, cars and effects each get their own channel, you only get creatures near you, and packets are compressed.
  • The server checks hits and crates, so modded games can't one-shot bosses or loot from across the map.
  • Everyone gets the raiders' medkit when a raid is beaten, not just the host.
v1.5.1The Deadly Update
  • New boss: The Deadly. It waits in the big house in Willow Creek by day and comes out at nightfall.
  • Dramatic music, with a heavier track when a boss or raid is on you.
  • Three more parking lots in the city, each with a car: two sedans and an SUV.
  • A Bosses tab in the Mob Index.
  • More detail on players, creatures, raiders, buildings and rubble.
  • A detailed moon with craters and a glow.
  • Trees fall faster, and the Mindless walk faster.
v1.4Raiders and Bases: Hotfix
  • New boss: The Raider's General, who leads every raid.
  • Assault rifle: full auto with a 100-round drum, looted from raiders.
  • A hotbar: 1 pistol, 2 axe, 3 rifle, or the mouse wheel and Q.
  • A Weapons tab in the Mob Index.
  • Raiders carry much more gear and face you when they shoot.
  • Only players and raiders go into your base. The Mindless and the Unhappy walk around it.
  • The Unhappy haunt Willow Creek at night, and get much faster once they smile.
  • The truck takes crash damage instead of you, and needs 8 wood to repair when wrecked.
  • Solo games really pause now. Multiplayer pauses when everyone is in the menu.
  • A cleaner crafting menu.
v1.3Raiders and Bases
  • Armed survivors are now Raiders, and their camp is the Raider Camp.
  • Raids: every 4 to 8 days, 5 to 7 raiders attack your base.
  • The Mindless and the raiders fight each other.
  • Accounts with unique usernames.
  • Save and Return to Menu, then CONTINUE from the title screen.
  • Report players in multiplayer (F3).
  • A profile with your UID code and stats.
  • More detailed trees, and menu fixes in multiplayer.
Alpha 1.2Multiplayer and the pickup
  • A pickup truck you can drive, parked in the city.
  • The city now stretches all the way to the port.
  • A big two-storey house in Willow Creek.
  • Huge, detailed container cranes at the port.
  • Better survivors and creatures, and every player gets their own jacket colour.
  • A swimming animation and faster sprinting.
  • Multiplayer: host a game, find it in the server browser or join by IP.
  • Party chat, a friends list and public lobbies.
Alpha 1.1News and the Mob Index
  • The News page and the Mob Index.
  • A new place: the Hostile Survivor Base in the Haunted Woods.
  • Many more Mindless in town, with hordes at night.
  • Nights are easier to see in, and the Unhappy claw you with a visible slash.
  • More houses and more detailed buildings.
  • A bed you can move, better ammo crates, and a ruined boat at the docks.
Alpha 1.0The first big update
  • A menu with Settings, and an inventory.
  • Detailed roads, cars and trucks. The axe hits much harder.
  • Concrete docks, solid base roofs and barbed wire.
  • A campfire, a third-person view, and gentler fall damage.
  • A new island map, low-graphics mode, and web and phone support.
BetaWhere it started
  • The first version of the island, the Mindless and the Unhappy.
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