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The Last Starship
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Got the game three years ago, when it was on Alpha. Now it feels more like early Beta. Hard to recommend. The good stuff: Gameplay loop is fun. Pick some contracts, fly around shooting/delivering/mining, get some money, upgrade your ship, go for fatter contracts... Shipbuilding…”
— a player, Steam review · 66 hrs played“I see fun, deep mechanics and gameplay that tries to make good use of them. What I don’t see is an actual game. There’s a genuinely awesome core concept here, but the gameplay loop feels boring and unpolished. It’s still a pretty enjoyable shipment logistics simulation, yet the…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Disappointed by a Rushed 1.0 Release I really wanted to love this game from the Prison Architect devs, but The Last Starship feels like it launched at least six months too early. From developers who spent nearly a decade refining Prison Architect into a beloved classic, this…”
— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:17 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-25. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.
Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update 25e Patch Notes
Update 25e : - Allow Reactor Core components to be bought and sold in trading posts. - Drones can now transfer boxed equipment again.
Update 25 Released
Docking Port Fluid Pipes: Streamline your resource management by running fluid transfer pipes directly to your docking ports, allowing for automated liquid and gas distribution across docked vessels.
Update 24 Released
Update 24 has been released! We've added new ways to control power on your ship, including a new Power Switch which can disable entire sections at a time. We've introduced a new way to fabricate ship
Roadmap released for 2026
For those who didn't catch the end of our Update 23 video, here is the current roadmap for The Last Starship up to the end of 2026. We were overjoyed by how well the launch went for the game, with som
Update 23 released
50,000 new players into the game, we've not taken our foot off the Metreon gas pedal! As well as the usual round of fixes and smaller improvements, enjoy mass-configuration of fabricators and other eq
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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 | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · Sandbox · Simulation · Singleplayer · Space · Sci-fi · Base-Building · Space Sim · Mining · Building · 2D · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Includes level editor · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Spanish - Latin America * , Italian * , Dutch * , Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Portuguese - Portugal * , Russian * , Swedish * , Norwegian * , Turkish * , Japan… |
| Achievements | 37 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.last-starship.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel i5 Graphics: Geforce or Radeon Storage: 1 GB available space