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Design a starship, keep its systems running, and take on mining, delivery, rescue, manufacturing, and combat jobs across space.
Released 03 Feb 2026
Design Custom Starships
Build Onboard Factories
Mine Asteroids for Ore
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!
Developed by Introversion Software · Published by Introversion Software
You design and command starships, arranging their hulls, engines, weapons, power systems, and life support. Your crew handles onboard work such as moving supplies and operating equipment while you direct the ship.
Travel between sectors to take contracts: carry cargo or passengers, rescue people, mine asteroids, salvage wrecks, and fight pirates. Combat involves outfitting your ship and maneuvering it to bring weapons to bear.
Earn money and gather materials to expand your ships and operations. Research unlocks recipes, while conveyors and robotic arms can support onboard manufacturing; you can also build stations and manage a fleet. Modes include a mission-led campaign, a sandbox, and Survival, where you race to reach a star gate ahead of a spreading void.
Players who enjoy the game often point to designing and refining ships, laying out onboard systems, and building production lines as satisfying ways to spend time. Some also enjoy combining mining, transport, rescue, and combat into a growing fleet. Reviews differ sharply, with many describing the available missions and progression as limited and the automation and interface as frustrating.
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction and simulation game, where you design and upgrade your own star ship. Use it to explore vibrant star systems, uncover unique resources, and discover hidden secrets. Your choices shape your experience — become a daring pirate hunter, a resourceful miner, a space engineer, a reliable spacebus driver, and more! Dive into colorful star systems in this ever-expanding sandbox environment, and enjoy regular free updates throughout the development process. Your journey through the cosmos is just beginning!
With your crew awaiting orders, it’s time to bring your starship to life. Build the vessel of your wildest imagination, or recreate legendary ships from iconic movies and fiction. Stop by the local space colony to gather equipment and supplies. Start with a reactor to power your engines, and then lay down crucial pipework and electrical systems. Keep life support steady, or your journey may be cut short.
Unleash the full potential of our community’s creativity through ship sharing on the Steam Workshop. If you can envision it, you can design it, share it, and let others engage in epic adventures and battles with your creation.
Take full command of your starship’s arsenal. Will you mount lasers for precision shots, or railguns for devastating impact? Do you favor heavier armor for resilience, or enhanced agility to outmaneuver foes? Opt for stealth to slip by unnoticed, or load up on raw firepower to dominate the battlefield. The Last Starship isn’t just about firepower; it’s a test of tactical thinking, where each encounter demands careful planning, adaptability, and precise strikes.
The sector map opens the gateway to a vibrant, procedurally generated universe brimming with missions, anomalies, and unexpected discoveries. Meet a diverse array of characters — some allies, some adversaries — each with their own compelling stories and requests for help. Embark on daring rescues, deliver vital cargo, or hunt down notorious pirates. Every decision you make shapes your path, carving your unique journey through an ever-changing galaxy full of wonder and peril.
Space is cold, dark, and vast. To survive, you must gather essential resources — water, oxygen, and fuel — to maintain your ships and sustain your crew. Whether you’re deploying drones for space wreck salvage, or using lasers to extract raw materials for a massive mining rig, establishing a seamless operation is crucial. Only then, can you secure the resources needed to thrive in the depths of space.
The Last Starship is the latest creation from acclaimed indie developer, Introversion Software, best known for the BAFTA winning game, Prison Architect. The game launched in February 2026 and is being updated regularly, with new missions, bug fixes, and gameplay enhancements, based on your feedback.
Introversion Software has been developing games since 2001, and stands behind acclaimed titles like Uplink, Darwinia, DEFCON, Multiwinia, and Scanner Sombre. Our most successful game, Prison Architect, launched into early access in 2012, captivated over four million players, and over a 6 year span, received 54 major content updates — averaging one per month.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 37 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
