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Down with the Ship
Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“The ultimate tired dad game. Very fun and surprisngly easy to dominate other players at. Very easy to learn, no tutorial videos are necessary. The game is all about stacking interlocking bonuses in something of a D2 inventory puzzle.”
— a player, Steam review · 253 hrs played“Probably the best autobattler game in the market currently, amazing execution of the genre. Furthermore, it is still in the early access phase”
— a player, Steam review · 89 hrs played“I could write a whole whitepaper on the good effort and design going into this game, but I can't because I'm too busy playing it.”
— a player, Steam review · 250 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch 0.95.14
Fixed a crash when opening the Codex. Fixed Access Cards failing to add their guaranteed doors when other shop slots were frozen. Sewer Mutant conversions no longer trigger additional conversions duri
Patch 0.95.10
Restored the previous ranked rating formula to address excessive rating gains at high ranks. Fixed an issue with the tutorial getting stuck. Added a way to reset the tutorial from settings.
Patch 0.95.09
Added cosmetic ship classes and specialties based on installed equipment. Added a Sort Cargo button to Advanced Editing. Click again to reverse the order. Added an option to move all equipment to carg
Patch 0.95.08
Fixed completed Daily Challenge runs missing from Run History. Improved Daily Challenge leaderboard loading and made completion times easier to read. Fixed co-op battle-start errors involving merged i
Season 5 has begun!
Features Added a new game mode: Daily Challenge. Play a daily fixed-seed run that earns rewards. Significantly improved performance throughout the game. Removed the account Salvage limit. Adjusted the
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Indie, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Auto Battler · Inventory Management · Deckbuilding · Replay Value · PvP · Space · Roguelite · Multiplayer · Strategy · Card Battler · Sci-fi (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Adjustable Text Size |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | https://ironanchorgames.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Dual Core 2 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated Graphics Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: