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Pilot a ship across a generated galaxy, mining, salvaging, trading and fighting—or let the autopilot handle missions while you’re away.
Released 30 Oct 2025
Autopilot Runs Missions
Mine Asteroids for Ore
Salvage Derelict Ships
A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.
Developed by Bat Roost Games · Published by Bat Roost Games
You command a spaceship and captain in a procedurally generated galaxy, travelling between systems through gate networks. Take missions, encounter NPC captains, and choose how to engage with the galaxy’s factions—or chart a more independent course.
Mine asteroids for ore, salvage derelict ships for parts, fight enemies, and trade goods between stations. You can play actively or set the autopilot to handle activities such as mining and missions; the game can also run full screen or in a smaller desktop window.
Earn credits, experience, and reputation to develop your captain’s skills and hire crew. Refine ore and salvage into crafting materials, make equipment, and buy or upgrade ships with different roles and fittings as you venture into new sectors.
Players often enjoy being able to switch between hands-on play and leaving the autopilot to handle routine work, and they praise the steady pursuit of new ships, equipment, skills, and systems. The relaxed space-game feel and range of mining, salvaging, combat, and crafting activities also appeal to many reviewers. Others find the mission loop repetitive or progression too slow, and note that the game is still developing.
Welcome to the Canis Major dwarf galaxy! We hope that your trip through the Great Gate was a safe one; many of the fortune-seekers that embark on this dangerous journey never make it this far. After all, an unauthorized jump of 25,000 light years through a heavily guarded artificial wormhole is bound to cause some issues – both technical and legal. Thankfully, now that you’re here, it’s time to get straight to business.
Choose your own playstyle
Combat: Fight enemies using a wide range of weaponry.
Mining: Scrape asteroid surfaces or blow them to bits to harvest their core.
Salvage: Discover and salvage derelict ships and wreckage.
Trading: Find the best trade routes. Buy low, sell high.
Play the game full screen or place it on the bottom of your desktop
You can let the autopilot play idle or take a more hands on approach.
Find and collect loot
You'll find powerful gear and rare items that allow you to push further into the sectors.
Buy and upgrade new ships
Choose from a wide variety of ships, ranging from small miners to large destroyers.
Dynamic NPC captains
From rival pirates and traders to helpful miners. Interact, ally, fight or avoid them.
Refine raw ore/salvage and craft your gear
Raw resources can be refined into materials. Use these materials to craft powerful gear to boost your ships and level up your game. Or sell them for a handy profit.
Level up your captain and hire crew
Pick from multiple skill trees and unlock powerful abilities or focus on becoming an industrial powerhouse. Crew with different professions provide passive perks and unique bonuses that enhance your skill trees.
Explore a vast, procedurally generated galaxy
Travel using the gate-network.
Story & dynamic missions
A wide range of different missions that will require you to diversify your ships.
Play Vanguard Galaxy full screen on a second monitor or place it at the bottom of your screen. It stays out of your way when you need to focus on something else (work, play another game, or watch a video). Engage the Autopilot and your ship’s ECHO system will complete most basic tasks on its own, with minimal input required from you.
You are let loose in a procedurally generated world where corporate interests clash with the galaxy’s established population. Pledge allegiance to one of the corporations, or stay neutral and forge your own path. The world reacts to your actions and builds its own storyline as you explore new systems and make a name for yourself.
Level up your captain and crew, and equip all of your space ships with top-of-the-line components. The deepest reaches of the galaxy may be savage and unpredictable, but with sufficient preparation you’ll be ready for any challenge it can throw at you.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 25 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| AI disclosure | Some image assets in the game of lesser importance (character portraits, item icons) are made using a process that includes AI image generation. This will be replaced with original artwork in the final product. |
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