Deep, creative ship building
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews
“If you want to build a swarm of angry torpedo bombers that move faster than their own projectiles, you can do that.”
Steam review · 7.6 h played ↗
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Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%treeform2016RTS · Sandbox · Strategy
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 1 h ago
The verdict
A free, creative 2D fleet-building RTS where you design ships from blocks and fight over control points. Multiplayer is nearly dead and an online account is required, so skip it if you want offline play.
Great for
Tinkerers who love designing modular ships and fast tactical micro, solo or with friends
Main risk
Dead multiplayer and a mandatory online account limit it mostly to the campaign
What players love
Free with no microtransactions
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Free. 100% free. No ads, no p2w, no microtransactions.”
Steam review · 10.3 h played ↗
Addictive, strategic and balanced gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Easy to learn, difficult to master.”
Steam review · 6.2 h played ↗
Friendly community and engaged dev (early)
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews
“The developer is engaged with the community; he plays and chats with the players.”
Steam review · 85.2 h played ↗
Custom AI scripting for your ships
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“The ai system is what really got me hooked”
Steam review · 16.8 h played ↗
What players complain about
Mandatory online account to play
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The game requires an account even to play single player.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
Dead multiplayer and abandoned by devs
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Multiplayer pretty much dead, game is not friendly for new players, devs are not active anymore.”
Steam review · 2827.3 h played ↗
$1000 ship cost cap is too limiting
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“the money cap REALLY hurts when you have a good ship but it's slow or has no defense because you can't afford it.”
Steam review · 13.5 h played ↗
Balance and meta ruin variety
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“The whole game can be beaten with one unit type; what's the point of building different ships?”
Steam review · translated · 22.5 h played ↗
Unfair campaign AI and server connection issues
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews
“I am stuck on the loading screen. It just says "Failed to connect to main server. Click here to retry."”
Steam review · 0.1 h played ↗
Heavy micromanagement and poor controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Don't like that you have to manually micromanage each and every little ship you make.”
Steam review · 11.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown
Minimum
OSWindows 7
Processor32-64bit
Memory1 GB RAM
OSWindows 7
Processor32-64bit
Memory1 GB RAM
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