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# Starfall Tactics gets four-player co-op on 21 October
- URL: https://arcade.ghostcms.templates.codememory.com/starfall-tactics-gets-four-player-co-op-on-21-october/
- Published: 2026-09-28T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-28T09:00:00.000Z
- Description: A free update adds a new campaign, shared turns and cross-play to the strategy hit of the spring.
- Author: Yuki Tanaka
- Tags: News, #release 2026-10-21, #platform PC, #platform Console, #Import 2026-09-30 16:46

Starfall Tactics, the turn-based strategy game that has sold more than two million copies since March, gets a co-op mode for up to four players on 21 October. The update is free for everybody who owns the game.

The studio, Paper Comet, announced the date this morning in a short video.

## What is in the update

The new mode is named Joint Command. Each player controls a squad of three soldiers, and all players take their turns at the same time. A turn ends when everybody is ready, or after 90 seconds.

- A new campaign of 12 missions, written for two to four players
- All 30 missions of the main game, playable in co-op
- A shared base, where players vote on what to build
- Voice chat and a set of quick signals for players who do not want to talk
- Cross-play between PC and console

![Joint Command is for two to four players, on PC and console.](https://arcade.ghostcms.templates.codememory.com/content/images/2026/09/starfall-friends-1.jpg)

Joint Command is for two to four players, on PC and console.

## Why it matters

Turn-based games are slow in multiplayer, because each player waits for the others. Paper Comet's answer is turns at the same time. You plan your moves while your friends plan theirs, and then all moves play out together.

We tried an early version in July. With four players, a mission that takes 40 minutes alone took 35 minutes. That is unusual: in most tactics games, four players need four times as long.

> The rule was simple. Nobody should watch somebody else think.  
>  
> **Noor Haddad, lead designer at Paper Comet**

## What else changes

The update also brings three changes for players who play alone.

1. A new difficulty level between Normal and Hard
2. An option to speed up enemy turns by up to three times
3. Twelve new pieces of equipment, found in the old missions

Saved games from before the update will continue to work. The update is about 6 GB.

## What we think

Starfall Tactics scored 8.9 in our review in March, and the lack of co-op was our main complaint. If Joint Command works as well with strangers as it did with four people in one room, it closes that gap.

We will test the final version on the day it comes out.