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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 15th 2023 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.
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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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Its an unfinished game, so the main story stops 2/3 of the way thru... its fun for what it is. Hopefully the Dev's finish the game and fix a few of the bugs. Like in free roam you cant seperate your fleet without rewriting some code. Update 11/25: The game is still a lot of fun, the Dev's have finished the main story and fixed some of the bugs.. There are still a few bugs, but nothing game breaking. I like all the different ways you can build your ships. I highly recommend the game.
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I have been an avid follower of Introversion's work since the early alpha days of Prison Architect. I found myself playing Prison Architect after each update to experience what had been talked about in the most recent developer video, and the same has been true so far with The Last Starship. Each one gives us something new to mess around with that deepens the existing pieces. This game took a while to get going. As of this review (October 2025), there have been seventeen updates and only now is it starting to feel like there is some meat on the bones. The early access launch seems to have happened before the developer's sense of what the game was even supposed to be. This lives on now through a split personality; different ways to play the game, none of which are complete experiences. The Last Starship is still very much unfinished. You encounter storylines that end abruptly, bare bones placeholder art for assets, and bugs that cause missions to break, leaving them in your "to do" list forever. I knew that this was part of the bargain going in, gleefully watching all of the "Fail Masterclass" videos and seeing the sparks of this game's inspiration in several of their unfinished concept games. It is worth mentioning all of this, however, for anyone considering this game and considering a purchase. There is always the possibility some bugs may never get addressed, or some features left unfinished, as tends to happen with many Early Access games. All that out of the way, I can rave about how good the good parts of this game are. As a fan of Factorio, I enjoy the nods to that building system all throughout the game. There are just enough differences to set things apart. You are operating a moving space ship or fleet of space ships is a fun twist on the genre. As the industry side has become more fleshed out, you're now capable of making most of the parts and essentials you need to keep going on only a few gatherable raw materials. The game pushes this idea further with the Survival mode, making you become self-sufficient early into the mission. In the tradition of "just one more turn" games, I find myself compelled to keep playing long after I should have gone to bed. There is always a next thing to do; a line that could be more efficient, an upgrade that could make your ship better, or a next enemy to vanquish for their precious scraps. Combat is tricky at first, but when you manage to blow an enemy out of the sky, the sounds and graphics feel very satisfying as debris blows all over with leftover momentum. That you have to load your ammunition presents a logistical challenge, and as manufacturing expands you can create supply lines and load everything automatically. As a Kerbal veteran I'm picking a nit about the physics in space having far too much resistance, but it seems like they have favored gameplay over realistic simulation here. Then abruptly, there comes an end. A story that trails off, or completed tech tree, or a lack of anything to accomplish past a certain point. What was highly compelling just runs out, and I find myself wanting the next update already. While I enjoy what is there, one thing I hope they're able to resolve is that feeling of everything ending in a way that leaves you wanting, instead of a good continuous gameplay loop or a satisfying conclusion.
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One of my favorite games already and it's not even finished! A good mix of FTL/Space Haven/Rimworld/Avorion, i'd say. At least i enjoyed all of them and this hits the right spots. You can build multiple ships and either fight or enhance your industry. You can have stations and miners. It got all the nice things. I feel like it still needs some features, some content, more customization, etc. But it's already worth to buy and play!
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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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Early Access but there's a lot of fun to be had already. Exactly what I want from a space sandbox, I love designing and re-designing my ship/fleet, solving missions and winning battles before they begin with intense planning. The iterative factor is what's great, how it's a lot easier to retrofit what you have than try to start over, but also less optimal. The updates I've played have been very good. I'm looking forward to where this goes but I feel like I got my money's worth already.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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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Developer
Introversion Software
Publisher
Introversion Software
Release
15 Feb 2023
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