Star Tactics

Star Tactics is a turn-based strategy and tactics game about commanding fleets in space battles. You compose fleets, choose how to use their ships and special abilities, and outmaneuver a challenging AI in battles that can involve dozens of ships. The campaign offers more than 30 hours of gameplay across 30 missions, with different ways to complete it and compose your fleet. Skirmish mode provides randomized battles, with no stated limit on their number.

Fleet battles

Battles use a top-down perspective and require decisions about fleet composition and tactics. The game includes 36 ships, from Scouts to Command Dreadnoughts, with variants that have different stats, weapons and abilities. Together, these make more than 60 distinct units. You can use nine weapons with different tactical roles, as well as abilities including missile or torpedo strikes, afterburners, forcefields and U-turns.

Skirmish and progression

In Skirmish mode, you fight randomized battles, level up your Commander and gain access to new ships. The campaign features large-scale fleet battles and supports different approaches to building your fleet, adding replayability.

AI and battlefields

The AI prioritizes targets—for example, capital ships target capitals while fighters target fighters—and considers which side of a ship has the most firepower. Ships can avoid missiles and maneuver away from their most vulnerable side. Battlefields also include damaging gas fields, nebulae that can conceal ships for ambushes, asteroids and minefields.

Other features

The game has skill-based achievements with rewards, a holographic visual style, visual effects, particles and post-processing. Its interface is carefully designed, and the music is by a composer of X3 and X-Rebirth.