SpaceSlog

SpaceSlog is a spaceship and colony simulator about shipbuilding, crew management, exploration and survival. After your colony ship is lost, you take command of a ragged crew of survivors adrift in the void. Rebuild your ship piece by piece, explore a procedurally generated galaxy for resources, trade with passing ships and factions, and defend against alien attacks.

Build and maintain your ship

You can design a small, nimble ship for a small crew or a large battleship with room for more, while ensuring you have the supplies to support everyone and keep the ship running. Where you place doors and build power and atmospheric systems matters when breaches and other hazards occur.

The ship systems include simulations for electricity, atmosphere, temperature and lighting. You can build generators, cables, batteries and solar panels to supply power; use gas generators, scrubbers, tanks, ducting and vents to circulate air; and install heat extractors to help keep the ship cool, especially near stars. Crew members need enough light, and you need the right equipment to venture outside the ship.

Keep the crew alive

Manage your crew’s needs and moods, including food and water, and choose your captain carefully. An angry crew member may rebel, refuse to work or give up. You can also research technologies, farm plants at growing stations, and collect eggs from hens and alien creatures.

Explore and survive

Each playthrough generates a different galaxy through the game’s incident system, with the chosen difficulty affecting how the galaxy and incidents are generated. You need to keep moving: staying in one place too long or becoming stranded can prove fatal, so find ships and factions to trade with and gather the resources needed to survive. The game also features combat and defence against alien creatures, with melee and ranged fighting, detailed health and anatomy modelling, and a medbay for treating sick or injured crew. Alien limbs can be severed, allowing creatures to bleed out; their meat can be harvested for food and their skin for furniture.

Factions and stories

You encounter other factions, which may become friends or enemies, and trade with passing ships and groups. Each playthrough can develop its own story.

Mod support

The game’s data is stored in JSON files, which can be changed or extended to add content. SpaceSlog supports data-driven mods.