AstroForge: Space Pirates

AstroForge: Space Pirates is set in the open Rubezh star cluster. You design a spaceship, then explore, fight, trade, complete missions or attack planets as you pursue your goals. You can choose how to deal with the cluster’s factions: fight them, trade with them or remain neutral.

Explore the cluster

The Rubezh cluster contains more than 35 planets, as well as nebulae, asteroids and anomalies. You encounter representatives of 15 factions and 13 intelligent races. Factions can be allies or enemies, and the cluster’s political and economic systems affect prices from planet to planet.

You can take on missions for different factions, from courier deliveries to attacking entire planets. In the single-player story campaign, you have a goal but can choose how to achieve it.

Design your ship

Build a spaceship from over 50 hull variants of different sizes and more than 100 installation variants. These include turrets, containers, living modules, boarding pods, amplifiers, power generators, armor and shield generators. You can hire crew on planets; they gain experience in battles and evolve.

Fight ship by ship

Ships consist of cells, each with its own armor level and functional setup. Cells are destroyed separately, and victory can depend on destroying specific parts of an opponent’s ship or meeting other conditions. You can deprive the enemy of energy, destroy all gun turrets, leave the ship without crew or board it.

Your guns fire automatically during combat, but you can choose to target a particular cell or type of cell. Special skills can give you an advantage. Victories earn you some of the opponent’s equipment and resources, which you can sell or use to improve your ship.

Play solo or compete

Alongside the single-player story campaign, multiplayer lets you compete with other players. Earn money and rankings in different modes to progress. The interface is designed to be straightforward, though winning on high difficulty levels and in multiplayer requires more effort.