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The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!

The Last Starship is a strategy, sandbox and simulation game developed and published by Introversion Software.
Released on February 03rd 2026 is available on Windows and MacOS in 18 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

It has received 593 reviews of which 474 were positive and 119 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Last Starship into these genres:

Strategy Sandbox Simulation Singleplayer Space Sci-fi Base-Building Space Sim Mining Building 2D Top-Down Combat Early Access Colony Sim Indie Automation Exploration Management Science

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System requirements

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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel i5
  • Graphics: Geforce or Radeon
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: 10.14 or later
  • Processor: Intel or Apple Mx

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Feb. 2026
I want to start by saying that this game still needs a lot of work. There’s definitely fun to be had, and on the surface everything appears to function correctly. However, once you get deeper into it, you begin to notice issues. As someone who enjoys automation-focused games, these problems stand out quite clearly. The two most frustrating issues for me relate to logistics and performance. First, crews frequently pick items off rails and move them to storage areas because the robot arms transfer items from the rails to assemblers too slowly to override their collection AI. This causes storage areas to fill up unnecessarily and requires constant manual intervention. Second, performance drops significantly with crews larger than about 40—FPS can fall to around 15 on maximum speed, which severely impacts gameplay. Beyond the bugs, there are also several quality-of-life shortcomings. There’s no copy-and-paste functionality for settings on containers, assemblers, etc, which makes configuring large systems extremely tedious. Additionally, there’s no “produce until X is in storage” option, meaning automation setups can’t maintain automatic stock levels of items... Which sucks big time. There are many other issues I could list, but I don’t want to give the wrong impression. The game is good and worth its price, and there’s real enjoyment to be found here. It just feels like it could become much better with a bit more time and polish. It needs put back in the oven.
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Feb. 2026
The Last Starship provides a much more immediate and linear gameplay compared to its direct inspirations. It features lite elements from factorio and its kind, x4 foundations' automation of fleet logistics management and a heavy inspiration from Cosmoteer's ship building and combat wrapped up with the pleasant aesthetic of Rimworld. I just wish there were more content and variety within it.
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Feb. 2026
It's a fun game! Oddly addictive in ways. The graphics style is similar to those like rimworld, or prison architect. You have a lot of freedom with your ship builds. The systems connect in somewhat intuitive ways, very similar (surprise) to prison architect. Campaign is cool, survival mode for a more challenging experience, akin to FTL where you are outrunning a bad thing and trying to save who you can along the way. They even have a bit of automation that you can get into if you desire, complete with belts and grabbers. It's not terribly complex, but has enough complexity to be interesting and provide hours of enjoyment.
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Feb. 2026
game is good...but for a 1.0 update i had hopes for more then just a 3 mb update, like new guns, new items for the ship stuff like this
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June 2025
There is a lot to like about this game, but there is also a lot to not like. I like the ship building and missions, running passengers and cargo around the galaxy and what not even mining and smelting to make components. Then after I have spent hours upon hours on a save and I have a nice multi role battle ship i jump into a sector and the game comes to a halt and my crew goes into full blown slow motion, while the NPC ships have fired multiple shots at my ship(s) and my ships are struggling to get off a shot, my power grid will choose this moment to fail even though it has way more energy than it would ever need, and all of a sudden my ship(s) get destroyed and my only option is to start a new save even though i have 30 or 40 million credits sitting that i could easily buy a new ship with at a shipyard. Now before you say don't play on a potato I have a 12 core 4ghz processor with 64gb of RAM and a 12gb video card. I can run much bigger games on ultra setting with no stutter. This game isn't optimized, they force fighting on you, the battle part of this game is THE WORST PART of this game. I have played this game since day one. I was on it play minutes after it released, and I have watched the devs work with the community and make many changes and improvements. I have never liked the battles in this game. I have never thought it had good battle mechanics. The last update the DEVS in their infinite quest to mess up the game thought it would be a good idea to make battling pirates a requirement to advance through jump gates to the next sector. I you like doing the same thing over and over again and putting 50+ hours into a save to have faulty game mechanics force you to loose all that effort then this is your game. Some people like getting kicked in the nuts repeatedly, and they will enjoy this struggle. I don't! I play games to relax after work, I don't want a game that's a second F'ing job. I CAN NOT recommend this game. If I could refund with 354 hours of game play I would, but all I can do is uninstall it and let it hold a spot in my library till the devs one day have their heads removed from their asses, and they FIX this game.
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The Last Starship is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.

The Last Starship is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.

The Last Starship received 474 positive votes out of a total of 593 achieving a rating of 7.56.
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The Last Starship was developed and published by Introversion Software.

The Last Starship is playable and fully supported on Windows.

The Last Starship is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

The Last Starship is not playable on Linux.

The Last Starship is a single-player game.

The Last Starship does not currently offer any DLC.

The Last Starship is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

The Last Starship does not support Steam Remote Play.

The Last Starship is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Release 03 Feb 2026
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