Pixel Starships™

Name: Pixel Starships™
Author: Savy Soda

0.999.67

Savy Soda

4.651M+ installs

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Build your Starship, raise a fleet, and battle in the Galaxy!

Pixel Starships: 8-bit space strategy game online

By Mei-Lin Chua

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Starships you design yourself, section by section
One persistent online galaxy shared with other players
Limited ship power and resources to budget in each fight
Programmable AI commands for automatic combat and offline play
Alliances, diplomacy and recruitment across many races and factions
Retro 8-bit graphics, which the listing calls Kairosoft style

What Pixel Starships is and who it suits

Pixel Starships is a spaceship micromanagement game set in one persistent 8-bit universe that many players share. The developer describes it as a game where you control every part of your ship, from building it to fighting with it.

It suits players who enjoy managing systems and crews in detail more than fast reflex action. The listing puts the emphasis on strategy, planning and building a fleet over time.

Designing and crewing your own starship

You build starships to your own design, then control the ship across its sections both when building it and in battle. The listing says you manage the ship's power and its limited resources, so every system you run draws on the same pool.

Crew are part of the strategy too. You assign crew tactics, and you can build and deploy support craft that add to the main ship. Weapons are something you discover in the game rather than buy in a fixed set.

Battles with other players in a shared galaxy

Battles take place against other real players in a single massive online universe. You can form alliances with friends and fight together toward a shared goal.

The galaxy also holds many races, aliens and factions. You can command them, conquer them or deal with them through diplomacy.

Recruitment, research and exploration

Beyond fighting, the listing describes running the wider operation: recruiting crew, carrying out research, and exploring planets to find out what they hide. Diplomacy sits alongside these, so relations with other factions are part of the same play.

All of these feed into the same ship and fleet you are building, so progress in one area affects the others.

Automatic combat and offline play with AI commands

You can program situational AI commands for your ship's systems and crew. Once set, these let combat run automatically and let you keep playing without a connection, according to the listing.

This lets you set up a ship's behaviour in advance instead of making every decision during a battle.

What's new

Oct 19, 2026

Level 14 Ships take flight! New Missions, Ship Hulls, Room Types, Crafts, Missiles, Torpedoes, and much more! The Galactic front line has expanded, and new adventure awaits.

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