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Space Scavenger
Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly. Make the best use of the quirky ship modules you find, ranging from slingshots to ion cannons, to try and avoid certain death.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“67”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“Its Honestly One Of Those Games That Get Boring Really Fast I Wouldnt Recommend Its Not Worth It Sounds Like A good Game But I Was Wrong”
— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 21:51 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
2025 Quick update
Hi Scavengers! An unexpected update with a new weapon! Unity recently discovered a security vulnerability ( CVE-2025-59489) so I was just going to fix that but realized I had a weapon ready from 3 yea
Space Scavenger 2: Galactic Gauntlet
Hey Scavengers! Space Scavenger 2 has been in development since 2022 and I wanted to share that it's up on the Steam store with a brand new Announcement Trailer! What's new in the sequel? Split screen
Creative Mode Update!
Creative mode added! Build whatever ship you want in creative mode and take it out to battle enemies! New stuff Modes Creative Mode Freely build any* ship you can think of! Modules Harpoon - Energy we
1.0.2 Hotfix
Fixed a few bugs Hangar ships are now deleted properly when deleted by the user Achievement "In A Hurry" now triggers correctly Achievement "Light Speed" now triggers correctly Thank you for reporting
RELEASE DAY!!! 1.0 UPDATE!
New Stuff A new sector! There is now a final fourth sector after the fire sector! 3 planet types 5 new enemies New modules Scavenger Drone - Unique Quantum Shield - Unique Shurikens - Ammo weapon Gren
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie |
| Player tags | Action Roguelike · Building · Top-Down Shooter · Colorful · Rogue-like · Arcade · Cartoony · Singleplayer · Space · Perma Death · Twin Stick Shooter · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , German * , Dutch * , Russian * , Swedish * , French * , Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese * * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 31 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://spacescavenger.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 or equivalent Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 or equivalent Storage: 600 MB available space