Barnard's Star21a - App Store

Snipe your friends, electrocute your enemies and rain down acidic slime in the Barnard’s Star system, 6 light years from Earth. A multiplayer, turn-based tactics battler with no micro-transactions and no random chance - ingenuity is the only way to victory!

Features:
- Choose between 3 warring factions: Humans, Robots, and Critters
- Do battle with 30 characters using dozens of unique attacks and abilities
- Conquer 18 different maps set on space stations and intergalactic ships
- Play offline vs. AI or locally against a friend
- Challenge friends and strangers with online multiplayer

Version History Campaign mode is here! 28 single-player missions across 3 storylines. Plus Teams Mode maps, faster turn timeouts, and balance changes. 21a Sep 25 Adds mini ability demos to help visualize what abilities do before you use them! Long press on any ability icon to view them.

This release also adds some balance changes and new abilities! Check out the in-game patch notes for details. 20f 09/12/2025 You can now play online games against bots! Use the "Add Bot" button from a game lobby to add a bot player to your game.

Two new mutations have also been added: Clone Wars, where all units on each team are the same unit. And Units from All Factions, where Human, Robot, and Critter units can play alongside each other.

The Map Editor has had several improvements: Selection tool, Cover multi-select, and easier view movement.

Additionally, there have been several balance changes and bugfixes. 20e 02/22/2025 You can now play online games against bots! Use the "Add Bot" button from a game lobby to add a bot player to your game.

Two new mutations have also been added: Clone Wars, where all units on each team are the same unit. And Units from All Factions, where Human, Robot, and Critter units can play alongside each other.

The Map Editor has had several improvements: Selection tool, Cover multi-select, and easier view movement.

Additionally, there have been several balance changes and bugfixes. 20d 02/17/2025 The Map Editor is new this update! Create your own maps, and play on tons (60+) of new maps from other players.

This update also adds support for 5 and 6-player games, plus Fast-Forward while watching replays.

The Automechanic unit (now Chembot) has been reworked! Try out its dangerous new abilities, which give newfound synergy with other Oil/Fire-producing units.

Version 20c also adds flavor text for each unit (thanks Marzeltine!) and fixes several bugs. 20c 11/12/2024 The Map Editor is new this update! Create your own maps, and play on tons of new maps from other players.

This update also adds support for 5 and 6-player games, plus Fast-Forward while watching replays.

Season 4 has begun, with accompanying balance changes and bugfixes. The Automechanic unit has been reworked -- its new name is Chembot. Try out its dangerous new abilities, which give newfound synergy with other Oil/Fire-producing units. 20b 06/27/2024 The Map Editor is new this update! Create your own maps, and play on tons of new maps from other players.

This update also adds support for 5 and 6-player games!

Season 4 has also begun, with accompanying balance changes and bugfixes. The Automechanic unit has been reworked -- its new name is Chembot. Try out its dangerous new abilities, which give newfound synergy with other Oil/Fire-producing units. 20a 06/14/2024 - New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes
- Fixes for tutorial, Medic, Lurker replay issue, login issues, and crashes 19e 12/09/2023 - New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes
- Fixes for tutorial, Medic, Lurker replay issue, and login issues 19d 11/29/2023 - New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes
- Fixes for tutorial and Medic 19b 11/15/2023 - New ranked format with pre-choose units enabled
- Lots of balance changes, including several new or reworked abilities
- Tons of bugfixes and quality-of-life changes 19a 11/08/2023 Bugfix update building upon the teams feature that was added last update! Fixes several minor bugs, as well as some issues with the new maps.

Last update brought team play to the game! Grab a buddy and challenge some enemies for 2v2 mayhem. 3 new four-player maps have also been added. There have also been some balance changes for the three newest characters: Lurker, Architect, and Omnibus. Many bugs have also been fixed. 18g 06/24/2023 This update brings team play to the game! Grab a buddy and challenge some enemies for 2v2 mayhem. 3 new four-player maps have also been added. There have also been some balance changes for the three newest characters: Lurker, Architect, and Omnibus. Many bugs have also been fixed. 18e 06/13/2023 - Fixed: Grey cone squares on Transit map are no longer walkable.
- Fixed: Automechanics’ Oil Change ability now properly heals teammates.
- Fixed: Replay issues when waiting for an opponent to take a turn in real-time.
- New: Unstarted game lobbies will now be automatically deleted after 5 days. 18d 04/16/2023 Balance changes:
- Lurker's Burrows now cannot be used when there is another fighter standing on the other end. This prevents their use on the first turn of their creation.
- Acid Junkie's primary attack has been changed from Acid Punch (3 damage) to Unarmed (2 damage).

The "Transit" map has been adjusted so that the north-south bases are not so close to the center of the map. The map is now symmetrical both horizontally and vertically.

Lots of bugfixes! 18c 04/03/2023 Several fixes for minor issues and bugs. Server performance improvements for submitting turns and joining games. 18b 03/09/2023 This release adds support for 3-4 player games! Two new team colors (green and purple) have been added for 3-4 player games. Additionally, this update kicks off Season 3 with three new characters sporting brand-new abilities and attacks, as well as 3 new maps, lots of balance changes, and new player badges. 18a 03/01/2023 Customize your profile by choosing an icon from your badges and the fighters you’ve unlocked. Use the new in-app friends system to add friends and invite them to games. Also includes several bugfixes and improvements. For full patch notes see: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17d/ 17d 11/27/2022 Lots of bugfixes for the new content introduced with the last patch! See full patch notes here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17b 17c 10/12/2022 Lots of bugfixes for the new content introduced with the last patch! See full patch notes here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17b 17b 10/10/2022 Version 17a, which kicks off Season 2! Lots of changes:
- 3 new units, one for each faction
- 3 new maps, one for each background
- Lots of balance changes
- Lots of bug fixes
- Lots of quality of life fixes
For full change notes, see here: https://bstar.app/patch-notes/17a/ 17a 09/11/2022 - Display badges and recent games on player profiles
- Display 24h player count in info tab
- Fix for hanging at end of game
- Fix tutorial broken by last update
- Fix for mashing undo button clearing the map 16e 07/26/2022 - Adds ability to change username
- Adds playback controls for watching TV games
- Fixes bugs where errors in playback of opponent's turn would cause your own turn not to start properly 16d 07/17/2022 Adds font support for unicode and emoji characters. Stores fighter unlocks on server so they can be used across devices. 16c 07/01/2022 - Allow most character unlocks to happen in vs. AI games
- Several bugfixes for the game getting stuck, especially vs. AI
- Bugfix for psion only getting 3/5 movement back after a kill
- Bugfix so sniper can get killed by stepping on a landmine, instead of healing to full because she killed someone (lol)

This is a backwards compatible update, so existing games will still be able to be played. I'll pause timeouts for a couple days to give everyone a chance to update. 1.16b 06/28/2022