About This Game

Key Features

• Progress through 5 chapters of the campaign, collect loot, craft items and upgrade your ship to overcome increasingly difficult challenges on 3 difficulty levels or in the integrated speedrun mode
  
• Micromanage your crew and your ship while staying on top of tactical battles
  
• Create and share your own ships and scenes in the built-in editors
  
• Play single player or online co-op, PvE or PvP in the 5 included game modes
  
• Designed to be modular from the ground up, Spacecraft Tactics supports community-created mods

Play the campaign

• The last rebel outpost got spotted by imperial scouts. Relocate the outpost before the main fleet attacks!
  
• Throughout the campaign you must collect loot, craft items and upgrade your ship to overcome increasingly difficult challenges
  
• Adapt your strategy and loadout to different situations as you progress through the campaign
  
• Play single player or online with a friend
  
• Designed with multiple playthroughs in mind
  
  • Every playthrough is different
    
  • 3 difficulty levels
    
  • Speedrun mode with predictable rng, special game design and integrated display of splits
• Global highscores

Micromanage your ship

• Distribute energy between systems
  
• Manage your crew
  
  • Control ship systems
    
  • Damage control
    
  • Heal and revive crew members
    
  • Manage inventories
    
  • Provide emergency power to systems
    
  • Automations
• Systems are connected to and powered by grids:
  
  • Energy
    
  • Shield
    
  • O2
    
  • Network
• Maintain fields
  
  • Shield (Shield emitters)
    
  • O2 (Air vents)
    
  • Healing (First aid stations)

Tactical battles

• Manage your capacitor, shield buffer and EM emissions
  
• Use the right loadout to suit your tactical situation
  
• Position your ship and keep an eye on your opponents
  
• Develop a strategy and execute it

Editors

• Create your own ships in the ship editor
  
• Design new scenarios in the integrated scene editor
  
  • Play them in single player or online in custom game mode
    
  • Most game modes also allow to use custom ships and scenes
• Share your ships and scenes with the integrated sharing functionality and in Steam Workshop (bundled as mods)

Game modes and match making

• The following game modes are available for single-player and multiplayer games:
  
  • The Last Outpost: Save the last rebel outpost from the empire!
    
  • Battles: Multiplayer PvE mode with progression
    
  • Arena: Multiplayer PvP arena
    
  • Race: Test your skills maneuvering your ship and hunt for highscores
    
  • Custom Game: Sandbox mode, play your own scenes or test your ship in a procedural generated environment
• Play on our server (for official highscores) or host your own game server:
  
  • Game server is embedded in the game (best for LAN sessions or custom games if you are able to forward a port in your router)
    
  • There is also a dedicated game server included
• Use Steam game invites, find online games in the game browser or receive a quick-join code

Modding

• Spacecraft Tactics has been designed from the ground up to be modular and support mods created by the community:
  
  • Change the balancing of the game or introduce new gameplay elements with the integrated entity editor
    
  • Bundle your own ships and scenes and distribute it as a mod
    
  • Customize the presentation by creating your own tilesets, sounds / music or even texts / translations
    
  • Develop your own mods in Groovy programming language, ranging from simple scripts for your scenes up to full conversions
• Mods can be shared in Steam Workshop