Stellar Hustler
Hey everyone,
I’m a solo indie dev, and after a long stretch of building, breaking, and rebuilding, I’m finally ready to put Stellar Hustler in front of real players. The beta is open now and I’d love your help kicking the tyres.
What is it?
Stellar Hustler is a space-trading roguelite. You’re in deep to a criminal outfit called The Syndicate, and you’ve got 60 in-game days to clear your debt before it clears you. You do that by buying low and selling high across 20 space stations, hauling everything from legal goods to grey market parts to outright contraband — while the interest on your debt compounds every single day.
It’s a game of nerve. Smuggle the spicy stuff and the payouts are huge, but customs starts watching repeat offenders. Travel between stations and you’ll hit random events that can save your run or sink it. Pay off the debt and you don’t “win” so much as get pulled into a bigger one — each cycle raises the stakes with a heavier debt and a more volatile market.
Features in the beta:
20 stations across 3 regions (Core, Fringe, and the lawless Dark Space)
12 tradeable commodities with a living, fluctuating economy
Risk-based travel events with branching choices
A heat/customs system that punishes greedy smugglers
Ship upgrades — cargo, hull, engines
Endless cycles for score-chasers
Leaderboards across multiple categories
Cloud saves
Achievements
Full keyboard & game controller support alongside touch and mouse
Cross-platform — please test this!
The beta is live on iOS, Android, and Steam (PC/Mac) at the same time. You can make one account (link multiple accounts on our website) and your progress follows you across all of them — start a run on your phone at lunch, finish it on your PC at home. Bouncing between devices and reporting anything weird with the cloud sync would be a massive help.
iOS (TestFlight): **https://testflight.apple.com/join/HxE61mdQ**
Android (Google Play): **https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.cenrelliastudios.stellarhustler**
Steam: **https://store.steampowered.com/app/4557080/Stellar_Hustler/**
Heads up: saves will be reset at launch
This is a beta, so please treat your progress as temporary. All game saves, leaderboard scores, and stats will be wiped when the game officially launches. Play freely, chase those high scores, but know the slate gets cleaned for the real release. Your account itself will carry over, just not the run data.
What I’m after:
Bugs, balance feedback, anything that feels unfair or unclear, and especially anything odd with cross-platform saving. The game is built to play with touch, mouse & keyboard, or a game controller — so if you’ve got a gamepad or you’re on a Steam Deck, putting the controller and keyboard navigation through its paces would be hugely valuable. It’s also worth a pass through the Settings menu — try every option (audio, language, and the rest) and check each one applies and sticks after a restart. Drop it in the comments, hop into our Discord (https://discord.gg/VMZNRS5KBX), or find us at https://cenrelliastudios.com. Every report genuinely helps.
Thanks for taking a look. Happy hustling.
