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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Creative ship and vehicle design” (89 of 103 reviews) and “Challenging but well-balanced difficulty” (11); the most common complaint is “Limited campaign or content options” (9). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-10-22 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
89 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“I enjoy the little dude running around and working the ship its pretty cool”
“This game is super good. If you like building stuff and other civ games but dont really care about a super complicated civ game this is perfect”
“Very much enjoy this but the UI on steam deck is waaay too small. I find it weird because the PC version has GUI scaling options, but none on the steam deck. It'd be the perfect game otherwise. Really hope Zark adds…”
11 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“This game is super good. If you like building stuff and other civ games but dont really care about a super complicated civ game this is perfect”
“Your classic easy to learn, hard to master. There are as many levels to this game as you choose to go into.”
“absolutely amazing and underrated game. the game is indeed challenging but thats part of the fun. me and my friend played for 4 hours without realizing it.”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“me and my brother play it if you like strategy games and building this is a 9/10”
“This game is such fun. Steampunk airship designer with a campaign mode replete with diplomacy and eldritch horrors all over the map? Yes please! "Just one more turn," to the max. I'm editing this after buying the DLC…”
“Awesome ship builder with meaningful research options. The new co op update works great!”
7 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“Incredible! Endless re-playability, and every playthrough is totally customizable. If you love to design and improve upon old designs then you'll love this game. Initially I wrote this game off because the graphics…”
“The fact this game was released in 2018 and has only been improving ever since really speaks to the developers commitment to this game. It's nearly 10 years later and this game is STILL getting updates. This thumbs up…”
“Great idea and sublime implementation. Really engaging vehicle construction, with enough stock parts to allow huge creative freedom, but not so many that it becomes overwhelming. The learning curve feels friendly.…”
6 of the 103 reviews raise this.
“75 hours in, and I've gotten more joy out of this game than most others I've played in recent years. It's rare I put so much time in a title, I've got a bad habit of playing 5 hours in a game and moving on to the next…”
“really great game, would def recommend, its like perfect combination of steam punk setting and ship building, like pixel starships but for victorian era, love it.”
“very inspiring high quality ship builder and quality game”
9 of the 103 reviews raise this · 7 of them still recommend the game.
“I'd love to like this game. I've been checking back every few months for years, but nothing changes. Updates are minimal — a new weapon here and there, things that could be implemented in days. (I'm a game developer…”
“An amazing airship builder. The open-world campaign mode is a little barebones, but really its just a plate for the dish to lay on top of, the amazing ship builder. You can custom build forts, airships, land vehicles,…”
“Great idea and sublime implementation. Really engaging vehicle construction, with enough stock parts to allow huge creative freedom, but not so many that it becomes overwhelming. The learning curve feels friendly.…”
5 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Great idea and sublime implementation. Really engaging vehicle construction, with enough stock parts to allow huge creative freedom, but not so many that it becomes overwhelming. The learning curve feels friendly.…”
“the game is pretty cool (havent played conquest yet) but i do have 1 issue. freezing with massive airships/landships/bases. because it checks everything for every block you place it freezes every time you place…”
“Definitely has some issues (mainly technical so far), but in general this game is truly incredible, and exactly what I've been looking for for years”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“Very much enjoy this but the UI on steam deck is waaay too small. I find it weird because the PC version has GUI scaling options, but none on the steam deck. It'd be the perfect game otherwise. Really hope Zark adds…”
“fun game, lacking some quality of life settings but other than that awesome”
“A really fun game with a dope aesthetic. The UI keeps popping out of place, so the buttons aren't clickable where the button images are. I have to constantly readjust the windowed mode scaling to something else then…”
4 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“I'd love to like this game. I've been checking back every few months for years, but nothing changes. Updates are minimal — a new weapon here and there, things that could be implemented in days. (I'm a game developer…”
“this game makes you want to kill youreself when the AI spams little walker tanks with heavy steel armor and heavy canons and bombers meanwhile all the cool AI ships are just reallyinececiant... would be cool if there…”
“Love the game, the concept and the simulation. It still feel like there is more improvments that could be made with the ai. Gem of a game though. :)”
3 of the 103 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“its so peak dude, I NEED MORE!!!!!!!”
“its a nice little game, offers some room for creative land and airship designes, basic strategy aspect with simple diplomacy and economy. Dont expect it to be something its not, its a simple game that will offer you…”
Counted across 103 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.9% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“just played it nonstop for 10 hours after getting it. its really, really, good”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played“Very fun game with a lot of replay ability that is only hampered by the limited nature of its skirmish mode”
— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played“Really good game, kind of like Highfleet merged with HoI4, it has diplomacy and research, very neat and interesting game.”
— a player, Steam review · 48 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Version 1.2.15.2
Shots now again travel at the right speed. Gotta love those post-big-release hotfixes, eh?
Version 1.2.15
Features New weapon: the Nest of Bees, a rocket arrow launcher. Three new AI fleets. In the open ship screen, you can now search module filters by name. Wasps and bees now sometimes survive the module
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Vehicular Combat · 4X · War · Moddable · Wargame · Building · Alternate History · PvP · Military · Grand Strategy · Naval Combat · Real-Time (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · LAN Co-op |
| Languages | English, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean |
| Achievements | 32 |
| Official site | http://www.zarkonnen.com/airships/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 or later Processor: 1.8 Ghz+ Memory: 256 MB RAM Graphics: 128 MB VRAM+ Storage: 1 GB available space Additional Notes: Not currently compatible with Intel HD graphics controllers