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Sid Meier's Starships

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Sid Meier's Starships

Build and command a fleet of starships and travel between planets as you explore, build, negotiate, and fight to preserve your vision for humanity.

Strategy Space Turn-Based Strategy Sci-fi Tactical
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50.2% positive
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Take command of a fleet of powerful starships in this adventure-driven strategy game from legendary designer Sid Meier. Travel to new worlds, completing missions to help save and protect the planets and their people from dangerous Space Pirates, to powerful Marauders and other hostile factions. Build a planetary federation as you strengthen your fleet and secure your homeworld as you attempt to preserve intergalactic peace and your vision of humanity. Set in the universe of Civilization: Beyond Earth after the age of the Seeding, Sid Meier’s Starships offers sci-fi/strategy fans a full stand-alone game experience that also features cross-connectivity with Beyond Earth, expanding the depth of both games. See if you have what it takes to rule the universe!



• Tactical Space Combat: Encounter unique tactical challenges in every mission, with dynamically generated maps, victory conditions, and foes.

• Fully Customizable Starships: Create an armada that fits your tactical plan with modular spaceship design.

• Diplomacy, Strategy, and Exploration: Expand the influence of your Federation and gain the trust of the citizens of new planets. Use the unique abilities of the each planet to enhance your fleet and Federation, and keep your opponents in check. Build improvements on worlds to increase the capabilities and resources of your Federation.

• A Galaxy Of Adventure: Explore the galaxy as you lead your fleet to distant worlds and complete missions to help the citizens of these planets. Fight pirates, protect colony ships, destroy rogue AI, and more.

• Multiple Paths To Victory: Will you win by conquering the greatest threat to the galaxy? Or will you unite a plurality of worlds in your Federation? Perhaps you will lead your people to push the frontiers of science. Each choice you make carries consequences on your path to victory

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System requirements Windows · macOS

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows Vista SP2/ Windows 7
  • Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD4000 or better integrated graphics
  • Storage: 841 MB available space
  • Sound Card: Audio output capability

macOS

Minimum

Minimum:
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or higher
  • Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel
  • Memory: 2 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 256 MB nVidia 8800 GT or better, or Intel HD4000 or better integrated graphics
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Input: Multi-button Mouse
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
2K
Brazilian rating
12
Steam Germany rating
6
Achievements
31
Metacritic
64
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Leaderboards, Family Sharing
Languages
English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese
*languages with full audio support
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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Steam declarations and Valve's Steam Deck compatibility result. Missing data is shown as unknown, never unsupported.

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Windows: unknown
macOS: unknown
Linux: unknown
Steam Deck
playable
Valve compatibility test
The on-screen keyboard may need to be opened manually.
Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (10)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishYesYesNo
FrenchYesNoNo
ItalianYesNoNo
GermanYesNoNo
Spanish - SpainYesNoNo
JapaneseYesNoNo
KoreanYesNoNo
PolishYesNoNo
RussianYesNoNo
Traditional ChineseYesNoNo

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Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Sid Meier's Starships EULA
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Value Score

Great Value — 85th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 85th percentile. Priced as Budget at $3.74.

▲ Budget pricing tier

Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 61%
Value Ratio Top 15%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Sid Meier's Starships worth buying right now?
Wait — $14.99. Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
When does Sid Meier's Starships go on sale?
Not the best time to buy. Price could improve with future sales.
Is Sid Meier's Starships free to play?
Sid Meier's Starships costs $14.99 on Steam.
What genre is Sid Meier's Starships?
Sid Meier's Starships is a Strategy game.
Who developed Sid Meier's Starships?
Sid Meier's Starships was developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K.
What platforms does Sid Meier's Starships support?
Available on Steam for Windows, macOS.

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