update · November 20, 2025
Space Station Designer Version 0.5.90 Adds Information Overlays and Management Tools
Space Station Designer version 0.5.90 focuses entirely on game experience polish, adding visual awareness overlays, sorting tools for resupply spacecraft, and animated backgrounds across all menus.
Polar Motion has released version 0.5.90 of Space Station Designer. This update centers on reducing late-game friction through new UI overlays, management shortcuts, and audio-visual additions.
Visuals and Audio
Every screen in the game receives animated backgrounds to replace previous dark static backdrops. The soundtrack expands with new music tracks, and sound effects are added across the entire user interface. Bug fixes resolve UV mapping issues in spaceport modules and eliminate a visual artifact around the core module launch rocket.
Information Awareness Tools
A new overlay mechanism highlights modules that require direct attention, including units undergoing refurbishment, units lacking power or core connections, and manufacturing modules missing production line assignments. Similar indicators appear on the global screen to flag stations needing intervention, alongside an alert when no research technologies are actively in development.
Management Enhancements
The resupply spacecraft dispatch screen consolidates data across all four stations and includes sorting buttons based on remaining autonomy. The astronaut management screen gains additional sorting options and visual indicators for staff approaching maximum stay durations. Players can open production line management directly from module information cards and unassign astronauts from short-term tasks via a new button.
Why this patch matters
Version 0.5.90 targets the high cognitive load of managing four stations simultaneously, making late-game oversight cleaner with targeted overlays and sorting tools.