Spacecraft Tactics

Spacecraft Tactics is a tactical spaceship game about managing your crew and ship during battles. In the campaign, you must relocate the last rebel outpost before the imperial fleet attacks. You can play alone or online with a friend, collect loot, craft items and upgrade your ship as challenges grow more difficult.

Campaign and speedruns

The campaign spans five chapters and is designed for multiple playthroughs, with each run differing from the last. You adapt your strategy and loadout to changing situations and choose from three difficulty levels. An integrated speedrun mode uses predictable RNG and includes special game design and an on-screen display of splits; global highscores track results.

Manage your ship

You distribute energy between systems, control ship systems, manage crew and inventories, and handle damage control. You can heal and revive crew members, provide emergency power to systems and set up automations. Systems connect to and draw power from grids for energy, shields, O2 and the network. You also maintain shield emitters, air vents and first aid stations.

Tactical battles

In battle, you manage your capacitor, shield buffer and EM emissions, choose a loadout for the situation and position your ship while watching your opponents. You develop a strategy and carry it out.

Game modes

The five included modes support single-player and multiplayer play, with PvE and PvP options:

• The Last Outpost: save the last rebel outpost from the empire.
• Battles: multiplayer PvE with progression.
• Arena: multiplayer PvP.
• Race: maneuver your ship and compete for highscores.
• Custom Game: play your own scenes or test your ship in a procedurally generated environment.

You can play on the game's server for official highscores or host your own game server. The game includes an embedded server, suited to LAN sessions or custom games when you can forward a router port, as well as a dedicated server. Online games are accessible through Steam invites, the game browser or quick-join codes.

Ship and scene editors

The ship editor lets you create ships, while the integrated scene editor lets you design scenarios. You can play them alone or online in Custom Game, and most modes also support custom ships and scenes. The integrated sharing feature and Steam Workshop let you share creations, which can be bundled as mods.

Community mods

The game is built to support community-created mods. With the integrated entity editor, you can change game balance or add gameplay elements. Mods can bundle ships and scenes, or customize presentation with tilesets, sounds, music, text and translations. You can develop mods in Groovy, from simple scene scripts to full conversions, and share them through Steam Workshop.