Sector Space

Sector Space is a single-player, top-down space sandbox with retro graphics. You pilot a ship through a procedurally generated galaxy, visiting star systems and other points of interest across hundreds of systems. Travel between sectors seamlessly or cover greater distances with jump drives, jump gates and wormholes.

Explore the galaxy

Each world file represents a galaxy divided into a grid of sectors. A sector can contain an asteroid field, star system, nebula or other region. Some locations appear in every generated galaxy, though their positions may change. You can move your character and fleet between world files to explore different galaxies; most resources are renewable, so you can usually remain in one world.

Dangerous regions include combat areas and anomalous zones, where enemies are more challenging and item drops are better. NPCs may visit you, and random encounters can ambush you as you travel through dangerous space. You can use NPC stations and resources to progress, build stations of your own and deploy drones to defend an area from hostile invaders.

Develop your ship and fleet

Your character pilots a ship and can command a fleet of up to six ships, depending on their chosen class, or profession. As you level up, you can choose secondary skills to specialize your character and improve your ship. Those skills also pass to fleet ships, but are reduced in proportion to each ship's level. Gear and ships of increasing tier are the main means of upgrading and progressing. The game includes hundreds of items, which can receive modifiers that enhance their functions.

Gather, craft and trade

Combat and resource gathering provide gear and experience, while crafting items also grants experience toward leveling up. You can mine asteroids, refine the ore into pure elements and craft components for items and ships. Planets and colonies provide additional resources. Item prices vary by region and over time, making trade between stations a possible source of credits.