Stars Reach Species: All 8 Playable Races

Playable Worlds set three rules for every species before art started: keep the silhouette roughly humanoid so clothing and animation assets can be shared across all eight, give each one a personality archetype players can lean into or play against, and keep every design cosplayable on a budget. That is why there is no insectoid or quadruped option, and why the Hyugons ended up as green skin plus antennae rather than an actual bug.

Species with full official Roleplay Guides (6)

Each of these has a dated guide on the official site covering physical description, homeworld, language and naming conventions. Everything in the table is taken from those guides.

Species	Homeworld	Language	Cultural centre of gravity
Terran	Terra	Once thousands of languages; now largely converged for Garden life.	Famously divided by religion, nation and ideology — but quick to align around a shared goal. Known for comfort food, rock-n-roll and opera exports.
Elioni	Rowwsia	A drawled meow/yowl/trill cadence written with doubled letters (rr, ww, oww). Particles: ne = not, ma = command, ke = question marker.	Independent thought and expression, with a strong meritocratic streak. Leaned hard into industrial robotics and AI.
Skwatchi	Chedderath	Qhezmar — hard consonants and short, weighty chunks. Anchors: Zhar-esh (opener), Truk (leaving).	Prizes 'beneficial interactions' — checking on neighbours, doing favours, making sure nobody is cut off socially or literally.
Gertan	Kuru	Kuruvek, with two registers — Stone Speech (formal) and Ash Speech (casual).	Perseverance and make-do problem solving, with a legacy of strong central authority called the Over Sight.
Stokadi	Revenia	Sha'reni — soft and sibilant, with open vowels. Key concept word: serin (fairness, balance).	Obsessed with fairness. History of rural clans and plateau city-state oligarchies left a deep instinct to argue process and equity.
Fae	None confirmed	Built around states rather than objects — 'pressure is present' for danger, 'closure' for goodbye.	Split into Space Fae (lived aboard Servitor ships) and Ground Fae (slipped down to planet surfaces). Collectors of other peoples' customs.

Species with design posts only (2)

Hansians and Hyugons are both officially part of the eight, but neither has a Roleplay Guide yet, so their homeworld and language are simply not published. Anyone presenting those details as fact is filling in blanks.

Species	Homeworld	Look	Design note
Hansians	Not published	A branch of humanity adapted to a watery homeworld — iridescent skin, gills, and webbed fingers and toes.	Unlocked as a Kickstarter stretch goal in March 2025, and first spotted by players in the lore story 'Interdicted'.
Hyugons	Not published	Retro-sci-fi 'Greens and Grays': green skin, large black eyes and antennae, on an otherwise human silhouette.	The studio market-tested more insect-like designs and found players did not want to play a bug — the antennae survived, the insect body did not.

Every species in detail

Terran

Humans, no non-human features. Official art gives them slightly exaggerated proportions — large hands, wide shoulders or wide hips.

Homeworld: Terra — Deserts on every continent, rainforests on most, and dramatic canyon and mesa country.
Language: Once thousands of languages; now largely converged for Garden life.
Culture: Famously divided by religion, nation and ideology — but quick to align around a shared goal. Known for comfort food, rock-n-roll and opera exports.
Worth knowing: The Garden is currently in the grip of a fad for 20th- and 21st-century Terran culture, which many Terrans find irritating.

Source: Roleplay Guide: Terrans (2026-03-19)

Elioni

Cat-people: cat ears, whiskers, furred face and a visible tail on a humanoid body. Built for alertness and agility rather than bulk.

Homeworld: Rowwsia — The largest landmass is overwhelmingly desert; most people historically lived along the coasts.
Language: A drawled meow/yowl/trill cadence written with doubled letters (rr, ww, oww). Particles: ne = not, ma = command, ke = question marker.
Culture: Independent thought and expression, with a strong meritocratic streak. Leaned hard into industrial robotics and AI.
Worth knowing: In Elioni culture the tail is the self, so tail insults land as personal insults.

Source: Roleplay Guide: Elioni (2026-02-11)

Skwatchi

Large, hairy and heavy-set — generally the tallest and bulkiest of the Garden species. Ape-like snout and long, thick arms.

Homeworld: Chedderath — Mountainous, glaciated, brutal weather and long distances between settlements.
Language: Qhezmar — hard consonants and short, weighty chunks. Anchors: Zhar-esh (opener), Truk (leaving).
Culture: Prizes 'beneficial interactions' — checking on neighbours, doing favours, making sure nobody is cut off socially or literally.
Worth knowing: The greeting tradition orchee martchar ('making the rounds') comes from walking miles after storms to see who needs food or repairs.

Source: Roleplay Guide: Skwatchi (2026-06-25)

Gertan

Red skin, curving horns, sharp rugged silhouette, and a hooked reptilian tail. Bigger and sturdier than most species — only Skwatchi out-bulk them.

Homeworld: Kuru — Active volcanoes, lava flows, caves and constant earthquakes.
Language: Kuruvek, with two registers — Stone Speech (formal) and Ash Speech (casual).
Culture: Perseverance and make-do problem solving, with a legacy of strong central authority called the Over Sight.
Worth knowing: Gertan survival engineering — protective force-field systems and shock-repellent tech — later spread into ship design across the Garden.

Source: Roleplay Guide: Gertan (2026-03-06)

Stokadi

Vampire/goth-coded, with dramatic outerwear — cloaks, high collars, veils and hoods that often cover one eye and much of the face.

Homeworld: Revenia — Cold, wet and foggy most of the year, with little sun, mountain ranges and plateaus.
Language: Sha'reni — soft and sibilant, with open vowels. Key concept word: serin (fairness, balance).
Culture: Obsessed with fairness. History of rural clans and plateau city-state oligarchies left a deep instinct to argue process and equity.
Worth knowing: Meat-forward cuisine: lab-grown meat is a big deal and BBQ smoker grilling is a Revenian export.

Source: Roleplay Guide: Stokadi (2026-04-28)

Fae

Small, wiry humanoids with delicate translucent wings that are treated as decorative rather than functional. Size varies widely.

Homeworld: None confirmed — Fae folklore names a lost place called Tir na nOg; the rest of the Transplanetary League treats that as a religious belief.
Language: Built around states rather than objects — 'pressure is present' for danger, 'closure' for goodbye.
Culture: Split into Space Fae (lived aboard Servitor ships) and Ground Fae (slipped down to planet surfaces). Collectors of other peoples' customs.
Worth knowing: Recognised as the first spacefaring species and the only one without a known homeworld.

Source: Roleplay Guide: The Fae (2026-04-01)

Hansians

A branch of humanity adapted to a watery homeworld — iridescent skin, gills, and webbed fingers and toes.

Homeworld: Not published — A water world; specifics have not been released.
Language: Not published.
Culture: Designed around a free-spirited, go-with-the-flow personality archetype — the studio explicitly rejected concepts that read as stern or threatening.
Worth knowing: Unlocked as a Kickstarter stretch goal in March 2025, and first spotted by players in the lore story 'Interdicted'.

Source: Hansians: Behind The Scenes (2025-03-02)

Hyugons

Retro-sci-fi 'Greens and Grays': green skin, large black eyes and antennae, on an otherwise human silhouette.

Homeworld: Not published
Language: Not published.
Culture: Experimenters who push the boundaries of knowledge, from cutting-edge technology to questionable ingredient combinations.
Worth knowing: The studio market-tested more insect-like designs and found players did not want to play a bug — the antennae survived, the insect body did not.

Source: Hyugons dev post (2025-03-03)

Does species affect gameplay?

Not in any published way. Playable Worlds has released no racial bonuses or ability differences, and developers have only gone as far as hinting that the deep environmental simulation could eventually mean species adapt differently to climates. Until that ships, pick the one you want to look at, and put your actual build decisions into the 9,000-point stat split and your skill trees.

Species roster checked: September 1, 2026