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Istrolid
In Istrolid you design your own unique spaceships from a large number of parts to fit your strategy and play style. With no set units or factions you are free to create a fleet where each ship has its own balanced strengths and weaknesses, from basic fighters and bombers to hulking battleships and s
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“the cost limitation is kind of stupid since there's no way to avoid it or a sandbox mode, i also think you should increase the build limitations cause i mean who wants a small ship? this game could've been so much more then it is. The game is still worth a play just gets boring…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“it gave me great joy playing in 1 match for 8 hours one time”
— a player, Steam review · 60 hrs played“I have no desire to create an account and go through all the mess of entering my email and password every time I want to play a game. It's a simple little game, it should be able to save my designs and progress locally like every other game since the dawn of gaming.”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:15 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Istrolid Update 1.0.1 - Community Balance Council #2
We have run the Community balance council 2 and gotten a series of results guiding things ever so slightly towards a new and more mobile meta. Jump changes, heavy PD-able changes, and some minor tweak
Istrolid 1.0.0 - Here we are!
The 1.0.0 It’s finally here: 1.0.0. I don’t know what I expected this would be, but here we are! When I was a kid I was captivated by computer games. I had no clue how computers worked. I created a pa
Istrolid Update 0.51.5 - Community Balance Patch!
Community Balance Council We ran the (https://www.reddit.com/r/istrolid/comments/lxp3i3/community_balance_council_1/) reddit thread where you voted on the balance changes. We took the highest upvoted
Istrolid Update 0.51.4 - Bug fixes before 1.0.0!
I would like to get some bug fixes out for you as we make our way to 1.0.0. Area Centering We are now going to do area-center instead of mass-center: This makes ships way more centered but it takes aw
Istrolid Update 0.51.3 - 1.0.0 next!
I know, some of you had trouble running the game. This is mostly due to aging underlying technology called Electron. Well good news I have updated it to the newest version to enable the biggest compat
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Free To Play, Indie, Strategy |
| Player tags | Free to Play · Building · Strategy · Space · Multiplayer · Indie · RTS · Sandbox · Sci-fi · 2D · Singleplayer · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer |
| Languages | English |
| Estimated owners | 500,000 – 1,000,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://istrolid.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 32-64bit Memory: 1 GB RAM