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Vanguard Galaxy
A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Vanguard Galaxy is a fantastic low impact space game with an idle component to it. There are a ton of ships and modules to upgrade your ship as you progress through the game. I highly recommend that if you pick up this game, you immediately activate the beta in the settings of…”
— a player, Steam review · 220 hrs played“Game loop is decent, progression is well balanced and motivates you to go to higher difficulty sectors without twisting your arm. Game runs fine, not too demanding, and you can mostly pick your play-style and enable AI for doing work while in background. The AI assistant is…”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs played“Classic Spaceship RPG. Lots of addictive fun. Idle game element is excellent. Looking forward to the forthcoming updates.”
— a player, Steam review · 892 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
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. 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.
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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.
Update 0.8.2.4
Hello captains, A few fixes and some new music for you to enjoy, the new tracks will also be added to the soundtrack DLC. In the meantime we are hard at work for the upcoming beta which will involve E
Hotfix 0.8.2.3
Hello captains, A quick hotfix to deal with lagspikes introduced in the previous update. Fixes - Fixed lag spikes and memory leak issue caused by excessive checks for locked jumpgates - Added extra cl
Update 0.8.2.2
Hello captains, A few fixes for issues that have popped up since the last release. Thank you all for enjoying the game and let us know if you find more issues. Added/Changes - The tooltips / size colo
Hotfix 0.8.2.1
Hello captains, Quick hotfix to get rid of the pink textures, most likely due to too aggressive memory cleanup Fixes - Fixed textures being removed in some situations causing pink elements in the game
Update 0.8.2
Hello captains, Last few fixes and we're live! So this new article is more for those keeping a close eye on the patch notes. Both beta and live branch are on this version now. For the full news on Upd
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Idler · Space · Casual · Sandbox · Top-Down · Incremental · Loot · Space Sim · Mining · Resource Management · Crafting (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Stats · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 25 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Any laptop built in the last 5 years Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: No special requirements DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: If you want to play Vanguard Galaxy and something else at the same time you might need higher specs.