Arcade starship combat in the spirit of the modern naval shooters, but with starships. Pick a hull in the hangar, fit a loadout against a reactor power budget, and fight 4v4 in an asteroid field or a plasma nebula, online with friends or against the AI.
Every module draws reactor power, and the Battle button locks until your loadout fits. Small ships are fast, hard to see on sensors and can carry a cloak. Big ships carry more of everything, including the point defense that keeps them alive under torpedo fire. Carriers trade hardpoints for squadron bays.
Career starts you with one ship and 5,000 credits. Earn XP, credits and schematics from every battle, level from 1 to 60, buy ships across three store tiers and upgrade hull, engines, shields and every module you own. Sandbox stays all-unlocked.
A real sensor model with range, signature and stealth per hull. Cloaking devices bend light around small ships. Eight preset liveries or your own color, per ship.
Fighters, interceptors, bombers, gunships and drones with their own models and stats. Launch a wing as a weapon, take direct control of it, snap back to the carrier.
Twelve energy weapons, twelve torpedo and missile racks, seven shield and seven engine options, decoys, cloaks and point defense. Every weapon has its own model, icon and sound, and all of it works online.
Online play from the hangar's Multiplayer panel. Matches are always 4v4, humans and AI mix freely, and your career upgrades ride along, fairly, for everyone.
| W S | Throttle up / down, X all stop |
| A D | Turn, Space / Ctrl ascend, descend |
| Mouse | Aim. Weapons converge on the reticle. Scroll to zoom. |
| 1 2 | Energy weapons, torpedoes. Hold on a target to lock. |
| Q | Launch decoy |
| F1–F9 T | Take control of a launched wing, snap back to the carrier |
| Gamepad | Left stick flies, right stick aims with assist, triggers fire, bumpers throttle |
HD asteroid fields with midfield clusters for real cover. The rocks are destructible, but tough. Planets and starfields behind every battle.
A super-dense storm of hot gas. Visibility drops to nothing past a kilometer, sensors are damped, and plasma arcs strike ships that stray near the glowing cores.
Future Starships is a Unity 6 project with a binding architecture contract. Simulation and input were separated from day one, which is why online play arrived as a layer instead of a rewrite, and why a new hull needs only stats, a model name and a length.
Install once and the game keeps itself current with small delta patches. Full release notes live on the public releases feed.
All releasesPlasma Nebula map with damped sensors and plasma arcs. Carriers launch their wings online: full carrier-vs-carrier battles in multiplayer.
Ten new weapons, the Duranium Echo Array, full gamepad support and Steam Deck groundwork, real strike-craft models, an Air Wing screen, and a smarter hangar.
Career mode with XP, credits, schematics, a store and upgrades. Cloaking, a sensor model, liveries, Carrier Battle mode, spectator mode, and rebuilt, faster multiplayer.
Free-For-All and Convoy Escort, carrier fighter squadrons, HD destructible asteroid fields, 29-plus new ships, and a redesigned starbase hangar.
First public build on the auto-update feed.
Free. Windows 64-bit. Download, install, pick a ship.
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