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In the fall of 2025, Paizo announced Starfinder: Tales from the Vast, the second official adventure supplement for Starfinder 2nd Edition following the Guilt of the Graveworld adventure path.
Now, after several months of waiting, we finally have more information on what’s included. One of the biggest surprises, however, is that Tales from the Vast is not an adventure path at all, but rather consists of four standalone adventures for Levels 1 to 9 that can be run individually or as part of a larger campaign.
The book was just released on April 20th, 2026 in PDF format to Starfinder subscribers, but it will see a larger public release in early May 2026. You can pre-order it now from your local game store, Paizo and Amazon. Below, we take a closer look at what’s lurking in the unexplored corners of the Vast.
What’s included in Starfinder: Tales from the Vast?
Starfinder: Tales from the Vast Adventure Anthology is a 146-page supplement for Starfinder 2nd edition and includes four standalone adventures that take place in The Vast; a remote and largely unexplored region of space where Drift beacons are rare and most planets have not been charted. The four adventures are as follows:
- Expedition to the Drowned Planet (Levels 1–3): Players are tasked with mapping a waterlogged and demon-infested planet in Kazmurg’s Absurdity (an area of the Vast that interferes with Drift technology). The adventure contains exploration, several social encounters and combat.
- The Moonside-250 Terror (Levels 3–5): While traveling through the Drift, players stumble upon an abandoned waystation inhabited by a delusional ghost and terrorized castaways from all over the galaxy. The adventure is a horror-themed space station crawl, with heavy elements of combat and some social encounters.
- Paradise Shutdown (Levels 5–7): Players land on the artificial moon of Salvation’s End to investigate a sealed vault with a disturbing secret. The adventure is largely a sandbox with a sci-fi post-apocalypse twist, and features a bit of combat and several social encounters.
- Sihedron Showdown (Levels 7–9): The heroes battle invading imperial forces to protect the remote planet of Izalraan. The adventure features significant combat, including a complex space battle.
Each adventure will likely take 4 to 6 sessions to complete, so these are definitely not one shots (the average adventure length is around 35 pages, including maps, illustrations, stat blocks and NPC descriptions).
The four adventures are not related to one another narratively, with only the location of the Vast really tying them together thematically. If you do want to extend them into a larger campaign, however, the book does offer guidance on what to do after you’ve completed them, including suggestions for how to integrate it into the upcoming Secrets of the Swarm adventure path slated for release in the Fall of 2026.
How much is Stafinder: Tales from the Vast?
The hardcover will retail for $49.99 USD (not including shipping and handling). A price for the PDF version has not yet been confirmed, but we’ll likely be around $29.99 USD (which is what we saw for the PDF version of Guilt of the Graveworld).
When is Stafinder: Tales from the Vast coming out?
This book will be released on May 6th, 2026, at which point you’ll be able to pick it up at local game stores, online retailers and via the Paizo website.
Will there be alternate versions of Tales from the Vast?
In addition to the standard cover there will also be a Special Edition which features new art and a yellow cover design. It retails for $64.99 USD (not including shipping and handling) and all interior content is identical to the standard version.
Why we’re excited about Starfinder: Tales from the Vast
- Flexible adventure design: While huge adventure paths are great, there’s something appealing about just having four standalone adventures you can drop into an existing campaign or string together into a larger narrative.
- Level 1 to 9 offers the kind of flexibility that fits perfectly into a busy gaming schedule.
- The mystery of the Vast: Setting these stories in the remote, unmapped reaches of the Vast is a brilliant move. It brings more of a frontier feel to the Starfinder setting, with a rarely visiting part of the galaxy where Drift beacons are scarce and players truly have to rely on their wits and their ship to survive the unknown.
- A solid mix of gameplay styles: While we won’t know until we actually run the adventures at the table, on paper they sound like a solid mix of classic pillars like exploration, combat and social encounters, while also adding a dash of lesser known SF2E genres like horror and ship-to-ship space battles.
- A decent price point: Everyone is pinching their hard earned Pact credits these days. But $50 USD for a hardcover doesn’t feel too excessive given the amount of solid content you’re getting.
Final thoughts
It’s great to see Paizo moving away from the longer adventure paths to an anthology format (something Wizards of the Coast has also been doing with recent D&D releases like (Dragon Delves and Adventures in Faerûn). It offers a level of flexibility that we haven’t really in recent Starfinder releases.
Beyond the new adventure format, there’s something inherently cool about the Vast. It’s a wild, unpredictable edge of the galaxy where the safety of the Pact Worlds feels like a distant memory and where anything can happen.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on the Starfinder: Tales from the Vast anthology in the coming weeks and will offer a full review closer to the wide release in a few weeks time. In the meantime, you can learn more and pre-order it now from your local game store, Paizo and Amazon.