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[PC, Steam] Free Game - StartPlay @ Steam

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StartPlay (currently free) - will become paid game on July 11th 2025

StartPlay - Steam Description:

StartPlay is ultimate game creator for kids, allowing young minds to bring their imagination to life without writing a single line of code! user-friendly game builder empowers children to design, develop, and share their own games with players around the world.

Key Features:

  • No-Code Game Development: Create engaging games effortlessly using our intuitive graphical interface. Perfect for beginners and young creators!
  • Endless Creativity: Choose from a vast library of characters, objects, 3D models, enemies, and effects to build your dream game.
  • Educational Value: Develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and spatial awareness skills while having fun.
  • Global Community: Share your creations with players worldwide and explore games made by other young developers.
  • Safe and Inclusive: A moderated platform ensuring a positive environment for children to learn and grow.
  • Collaborative Experience: Work together with friends to create multiplayer games and learn teamwork skills.
  • Regular Updates: New features and content added regularly to keep the creative juices flowing.

StartPlay is the perfect tool for nurturing the game developers of tomorrow. Whether your child dreams of creating action-packed adventures, brain-teasing puzzles, FPS games, car game, platformer game, or imaginative role-playing games, StartPlay provides the canvas for their creativity.

Important Announcement: The game will switch from free to paid on 11.07.2025

After a period of being available for free, we’re excited to share that the game has undergone major improvements, including upgraded servers, performance fixes, and technical enhancements. Now that we’ve completed thorough testing and refined the experience, we’ve decided to move to a paid model.

Starting July 11, 2025, the game will no longer be free, and anyone who wants to download it after that date will need to purchase it.

If you already downloaded the game while it was free – you’re in luck. It’s yours to keep forever, and you’ll continue to receive all future updates at no cost.

Updates are planned to be released regularly – every two weeks – and will include new content, improvements, and exciting new gameplay features.

If you haven’t downloaded the game yet, now is your last chance to get it for free before it becomes paid. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The game allows users to choose cover images for games they develop, the images are created by AI.

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closed Comments

  • -1

    So is this free or effectively a demo?

    • you get the full game now for free.
      People who want it past july 11/12th but don't own it will have to buy it.

  • Better to get them learning to code?

    • +4

      There's a lot more to game design than coding though. I think this is a great way to help them visualise and sandbox their ideas. Definitely a great starting place.

    • +1

      For kids in general hard traction, first visualize design become curious code… It won't do what they want after making the map/character? great now there's a need to code and tinker. Similar way modders got into coding and made their own hit titles Dota, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress/TF2, PUBG from Arma to name a few…

  • -3

    why would you be excited to share that its not going to be free.

  • +1

    Back in my day we had Scratch hahaha this looks sweet

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