StarPeace is an open-ended online city-building computer game, in which thousands of players build and develop a large inhabitable world.

Similar in many ways to SimCity 4, one major difference being StarPeace is fully online, and players compete against each other to build industrial, residential, retail markets, and more on a single planet, making sure to gain a steady income in which to fund their future expansion.

While Monte Cristo managed to sell 50,000 copies to its distributors, less than a thousand games were sold to final customers in Europe.

Monte Cristo's investors believed in the potential of MMOs; therefore, the company prepared the infrastructure to welcome tens of thousands of users.

[citation needed] After a year, in April 2004, three fans approached Oceanus Communications (the original developer and owner) asking for permission to rerelease StarPeace.