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
- Every playthrough is different
- 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
- Control ship systems
- Systems are connected to and powered by grids:
- Energy
- Shield
- O2
- Network
- Energy
- Maintain fields
- Shield (Shield emitters)
- O2 (Air vents)
- Healing (First aid stations)
- Shield (Shield emitters)
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
- Play them in single player or online in custom game mode
- 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
- The Last Outpost: Save the last rebel outpost from the empire!
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- Change the balancing of the game or introduce new gameplay elements with the integrated entity editor
- Mods can be shared in Steam Workshop
