Space Haven

Space Haven is a spaceship colony sim about leading a crew of civilians through space in search of a new home. You build a ship tile by tile, manage its conditions and facilities, care for the crew’s needs and moods, meet other space-faring groups, and explore a procedurally generated universe.

Build and maintain your ship

Place hull, walls, doors and facilities wherever you want, designing a ship or station that can be streamlined, symmetrical or asymmetrical. Each facility has a purpose: crew members sleep in beds, use toilets, react to noisy rooms and appreciate amenities such as arcade machines.

The isometric, tile-based system simulates gases, temperature and comfort. Build life support modules to manage oxygen and CO2, scrubbers to remove hazardous gases released by certain facilities and explosions, thermal regulators to maintain temperature, and power nodes to distribute electricity. Ship layout affects crew comfort: for example, a bed beside the ship core can disturb sleep. Humans, plants and facilities react to their surroundings, so you must balance survival and well-being with the risks of accidents, combat and environmental hazards.

Manage your crew

Each crew member has skills and traits shaped by their past occupation and hobbies. Their needs include food, sleep, comfort, safety and friendship; conditions such as starvation or poor hygiene affect their moods. Crew members can form relationships, experience joy or depression, and suffer mental breaks under stress. Some may vent themselves through an air lock, while others may start fights.

You can put crew members into cryopods to pause the progression of disease or wait for rescue. Battles can leave them wounded, and they can contract serious diseases. Set up a medical room to scan for diseases and foreign masses, treat injuries and illnesses, and perform surgery with your best doctor.

Explore and salvage

Equip crew members with spacesuits and weapons, then organize away teams to explore derelict ships, visit stations and meet other factions. Crew members have individual inventories and can carry pistols, rifles, grenades and other equipment. You can draft them to attack enemies or rescue their friends.

Away missions can uncover resources and items, activated cryopods containing people, and data logs left by spacefarers searching for a new home. Aliens may incapacitate and capture crew members, cocooning them against walls in their lair; you can decide whether to attempt a rescue. Derelict ships can also reveal members of their original crew captured by aliens, creating back stories for new arrivals.

Fight in space

Build turrets and take your crew into ship-to-ship battles. Crew members man battlestations, load turrets, put out fires, patch hull breaches and repair vital facilities. You can target an enemy’s engines to stop it fleeing, attack its turrets, or focus on its core to plunge the ship into darkness; enemies can target your ship in turn. Shields protect vital sections.

Hits and explosions can set off chain reactions of fire, smoke, hazardous gases and hull breaches on either ship. Your crew must work together to win, while also responding to the damage a battle causes.

Travel the galaxy

Each playthrough generates a new galaxy containing planets, asteroids, stations and other factions’ spaceships. You can mine raw resources, refine them into building materials and trade with other groups. Factions include pirates, merchants, slave traders, cultists and androids, among others; you can interact with them and develop relationships as they pursue survival and dominance.

Other events can include gaining a crew member from an activated cryo chamber aboard a derelict ship, holding a space burial so the crew can say goodbye, and growing plants with biomass and water recycled from toilets. In desperate circumstances, crew members may eat the meat of a fallen crew member or an invader.