Stargazer's Hill

Revolution Development, LLC

In-app purchases

About this game

Every star, planet, nebula and galaxy over your hill is real, and shines where it really is tonight.

Stargazer's Hill is a cozy pixel-art game about our real night sky. Look up and name the stars with your own eyes, find wonders with the Sky Guide, look through your telescope, and take their picture. Start with an old pair of binoculars in your backyard, and work your way up to big telescopes under some of the darkest skies on Earth.

LOOK UP
Drag to turn around and look up at the real sky, for wherever and whenever you're observing. Hold your finger on a bright star, a planet, the Moon or a constellation to name it. Catch a shooting star. Set your backyard to where you live, and the sky over your hill is the sky over your home.

LOOK CLOSER
The Sky Guide finds tonight's best: what's up, how easy it is for your telescope, and where to look. Point your telescope, lean in to the eyepiece, and centre it: Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, the Orion Nebula, galaxies millions of light-years away. Through the eyepiece, nebulae are faint and grey, as they really are.

CAPTURE IT
Photograph what you find. A camera brings out the colours your eye can't see, and every photo gets a grade: better framing, a darker sky, a tracking mount and a better camera all raise it. Sell the best to Night Sky Monthly and keep them in your logbook.

SHARE IT
Share your photos as picture cards for your feed or your story, or as a short looping clip with music: your astronomer at the telescope under that night's real sky, then the view as your eye saw it, and the camera's photo developing in its true colours.

THE WHOLE SKY, FOR REAL
• Over 5,000 real stars in their true colours and places, fainter ones from real star counts, all 88 constellations and the Milky Way.
• About 700 things to find, each with real facts: all 110 Messier objects, dozens more showpieces of both hemispheres, and, for the bigger telescopes of later nights, faint galaxies, quasars and more.
• The solar system as it really moves: the planets, the Moon and its phases, Jupiter's four big moons where they really are, Saturn's ring tilt, asteroids and real comets.
• Telescopes that behave like telescopes, from binoculars to a 24-inch observatory telescope: aperture, eyepieces, magnification and a finder scope, mounts that track or find things for you, cameras and filters.
• Real places to observe from: your own backyard, and dark-sky sites around the world, from Cherry Springs and La Palma to the Atacama Desert, Lake Tekapo and the northern lights at Tromsø.
• The Moon matters, as it does for real astronomers: a full Moon washes out the faint things, and new-Moon nights are the deep-sky nights.

A COZY NIGHT OUT
• 37 quests and 129 achievements, people to meet, and an astronomer's logbook of everything you've seen.
• The Star Radio: 31 calm songs made for the night, with the sounds of each place.
• Red light mode, as astronomers use to keep their eyes dark-adapted.
• Make your astronomer your own, and change the text size to suit you.
• Play with touch, a keyboard or a game controller.

THE OBSERVATORY PASS
Stargazer's Hill is free to play, and every other site and telescope is earned by playing. One optional purchase, the Observatory Pass, lets you go further: it opens Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi and the South Pole straight away, and later, as you level up, time on a 1-metre research telescope (from level 52) and a 10-metre giant telescope on Mauna Kea (from level 68), bought with the money you earn in the game. Buy it once and it's yours for good. It doesn't skip levels or give money.

No ads, no accounts, nothing collected, and it plays offline.

What’s new

Stargazer's Hill now speaks your language: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Turkish, Chinese and Russian. Pick one in Settings, or it follows your device.