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Build a life among the stars by trading, mining, fighting, and exploring as you upgrade your ship and assemble a fleet.
Released 30 Oct 2015
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Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.
Developed by Michael Zahniser · Published by Michael Zahniser
Set in the 31st century, Endless Sky puts you in command of a starting ship as you make your way through a galaxy of star systems. Choose from different starting locations and backgrounds, then decide how much to follow the missions and conflicts unfolding around you.
Earn credits by carrying cargo or passengers, escorting convoys, mining asteroids, hunting bounties, or attacking and capturing ships. Travel between planets and systems to find work, pursue missions, and discover new places.
Use your earnings to upgrade and customize ships, then build a fleet of freighters and warships. Storylines range from a central civil-war conflict to other missions spread across the galaxy; optional plugins can add ships, weapons, missions, and more.
Supplied reviewers often enjoy the breadth of activities and the freedom to choose between trading, mining, combat, and exploration. Many also highlight the long-term appeal of upgrading ships and building fleets, alongside the galaxy’s storylines and discoveries. Several appreciate its connection to Escape Velocity and its open-source, free-to-play nature. Some reviewers find the controls and interface difficult to learn, and others criticize the text-heavy presentation or uneven combat.
Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship. Grow your fleet while exploring an expansive galaxy with hundreds of systems. Earn money by carrying passengers or cargo, escorting convoys, bounty hunting, mining asteroids, or plundering and capturing enemy ships.
Enter the 31st century and choose from one of multiple starting locations and backgrounds where you set out on your own journey as the captain of a new ship. Take sides in a civil war, or ignore the story line and just enjoy exploring the galaxy at your own pace. The main story line alone takes about 8-16 hours to play through, with over a hundred hours worth of story content spread across the galaxy in the form of other story lines both big and small.
The game's content can be added to using the plugin system, which allows anyone with a text editor and a paint program to create new ships, weapons, missions, and more to the game. All of the game's content is built using the same system, so anything you see in the vanilla game can be done in a plugin. The capabilities of plugins are fully documented on our GitHub wiki.
Endless Sky is free, open source, and cross platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux). The game has been developed for over 10 years as a labor of love from hundreds of volunteer contributors. Updates occur regularly with three major updates every year. Over time, the game will continue to expand as contributors add new missions, story lines, alien species, places to explore, sound effects, artwork, gameplay mechanics, quality-of-life improvements, and more.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
