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Genre: Simulator, Strategy, Indie

Pixel Starships

Official Pixel Starships Steamdeck & Mac Support

Set course for the stars and prepare for the ultimate starship management experience in Pixel Starships! Developed by SavySoda, this 8-bit strategy RPG thrusts you into the captain's chair of your very own starship. With the cosmos as your playground, you'll embark on a journey like no other.

In Pixel Starships, you'll:

Craft Your Unique Starship: Start with a basic spacecraft and customize it to your heart's content. Upgrade your engines, improve your weapons, expand your crew quarters and laboratories. The only limit is your imagination and resourcefulness.

Hire and Manage Your Crew: Recruit a diverse crew, each with their own skills and personalities. Manage their tasks, level up their skills, and ensure their safety. Your success hinges on your crew's performance.

Engage in Tactical Space Battles: Outmaneuver your enemies in PVP and PVE strategy battles. Utilize advanced tactics, from strategic shield management to pinpoint targeting, to come out on top. The advanced AI customization system offers an extra level of tactics for skilled players.

Explore a Multiplayer Online Universe: Discover new planets, encounter alien species, and uncover treasures as you navigate through the cosmos. Every game presents a new set of challenges and opportunities.

Interact with a Dynamic Player Community: Trade resources, form alliances, and compete with players from around the world in a thriving online community.

Experience Deep RPG Elements: Level up your crew, earn new abilities, and unlock new ship designs as you progress. There's always something new to strive for in Pixel Starships.

Pixel Starships combines the depth of strategy games, the excitement of space exploration, and the charm of 8-bit graphics into one compelling package. If you've ever dreamed of captaining your own starship, this is your chance.

Supernova Battle Season

Experience a cosmic adventure like never before with the Pixel Starships: Supernova Season. This exciting addition to the Pixel Starships universe enhances your gaming experience, introducing a plethora of new content and features.

Dive into unique, exclusive quests that will test your strategic prowess and push your commander skills to the limit. Equip your spaceship with high-tech gear and innovative upgrades to conquer your foes and navigate the farthest reaches of the universe.

As you progress through the Supernova Season tiers, you'll unlock rare, valuable items and powerful characters that will bolster your crew and maximize your potential. The Supernova Season gives you the opportunity to truly stand out, transforming your starship into an unmatched beacon of power and prestige.

Whether you're a seasoned Pixel Starships commander or just beginning your journey into the cosmos, the Supernova Season offers an extraordinary ticket to the next level of 8-bit space exploration and combat. Don't miss out on the opportunity to ascend the ranks and make your mark in the cosmos with the Pixel Starships: Supernova Season.

Pixel Starships Steam + Steamdeck Full Availability

Set course for the stars and prepare for the ultimate starship management experience in Pixel Starships! Developed by SavySoda, this 8-bit strategy RPG thrusts you into the captain's chair of your very own starship. With the cosmos as your playground, you'll embark on a journey like no other.

In Pixel Starships, you'll:

Craft Your Unique Starship: Start with a basic spacecraft and customize it to your heart's content. Upgrade your engines, improve your weapons, expand your crew quarters and laboratories. The only limit is your imagination and resourcefulness.

Hire and Manage Your Crew: Recruit a diverse crew, each with their own skills and personalities. Manage their tasks, level up their skills, and ensure their safety. Your success hinges on your crew's performance.

Engage in Tactical Space Battles: Outmaneuver your enemies in PVP and PVE strategy battles. Utilize advanced tactics, from strategic shield management to pinpoint targeting, to come out on top. The advanced AI customization system offers an extra level of tactics for skilled players.

Explore a Multiplayer Online Universe: Discover new planets, encounter alien species, and uncover treasures as you navigate through the cosmos. Every game presents a new set of challenges and opportunities.

Interact with a Dynamic Player Community: Trade resources, form alliances, and compete with players from around the world in a thriving online community.

Experience Deep RPG Elements: Level up your crew, earn new abilities, and unlock new ship designs as you progress. There's always something new to strive for in Pixel Starships.

Pixel Starships combines the depth of strategy games, the excitement of space exploration, and the charm of 8-bit graphics into one compelling package. If you've ever dreamed of captaining your own starship, this is your chance.

Galaxy Patch Notes V0.995

Hi Captains!



We hope you are having a great start to the May game season.

Please find the latest Patch Notes below. This update is now available for download!

Please contact our Support Team if you experience any problems updating the game.

V0.995 Changelogs:


  • Reduced number of redundant objects created in battle
  • Fixed ability icons appearing on crews in inventory
  • Fixed a bug with invalid/expired global markers being displayed for collection
  • Updated starlog display for Tournament and Revenge battles
  • Fixed training timer being destroyed when viewing progress
  • Added minimum ship level and verified status requirement for user chat reports to be accepted
  • Added support for custom merchant ship sprites
  • Selecting weapons rooms in battle will now display targeting line between the selected room and current target
  • Improved RNG calculation algorithm to be more random
  • Fixed UI issue with ammo info menu
  • Fixed UI issue with research menu
  • Added Help page for crew menu
  • Fixed a bug where item menu UI doesn’t update correctly after using a room construction speed up item.
  • Fixed a bug with Steam achievements not updating correctly
  • Weapon Platform rooms ammo rearming can now be rushed
  • AA rooms will now lose their current craft targets when the ship is cloaked. They will then obtain a new target when cloak ends.
  • Mission ship battle logs can now be viewed in starlog.


We have a tonne of updates scheduled for May and June. We will continue to monitor performance and provide updates regarding Drone Hangar and Anti-Air additions over the coming weeks.


Thank you for all of your provided feedback, leading to many of the fixes noted above. You can join these discussions in the Feedback section of our Official PSS Discord and subreddit.


Good Hunting, Captains!


-SavySoda Team

PSS2 Development & Trailer Update

Galaxy Patch Notes V0.995

Hi Captains!



We hope you have been enjoying the Easter festivities. We’d like to give an Eggstra Special Thank You to all supporting Players with the new Eggnition Engine Skin!

Please find the latest Patch Notes below. This update is now available on Android, iOS, and Steam.

Please contact our Support Team if you experience any problems updating the game.


V0.995 Changelogs:



  • Added 2 New Crew: Tylord and Ursa Major
  • Added several upcoming Senate Voting Options
  • Android Studio/Visiri Mechbay Rooms adjusted to account for Reload Modifiers
  • Android Type Reload Times adjusted to account for Reload Modifiers
  • Missile Launcher/Multi-Missile Launcher Room adjusted to account for Reload Modifiers
  • Missile Type Reload Times adjusted to account for Reload Modifiers
  • Reduced Missile Build Times
  • Reduced Craft Build Times
  • Reduced Radar Reload Time
  • Rockets no longer fire in Volley
  • Bombshell Craft Speed is now fixed at 12

  • Implemented support for Lift Room Skins
  • Improved Username Validation process during Account Creation
  • Improved Season Reward Scene process after Battle Victory

  • Fixed several bugs with Research Menu Stat displays
  • Fixed a bug preventing Notifications from clearing when Crew Training is complete
  • Fixed a bug with Set Item AI functionality
  • Fixed a bug with Ammo Check AI not checking by Room Type/Category
  • Fixed a bug caused when Crafts are Destroyed while targeted by AV Missiles


We would like to address mismatched Battle Reports with false Battle Results, AKA ‘Desync’ (Desynchronization between Player and Server Data).

After dedicating a large amount of development time to improving this system, we are happy to announce that significant improvements will arrive soon.

We will maintain a heavy focus on improving this system until all Sync-related issues are resolved.



Thank you for all of your provided feedback, leading to many of the fixes noted above. You can join these discussions in the Feedback section of our Official PSS Discord and subreddit.


Good Hunting, Captains!


-SavySoda Team

Easter BONUS Event!

Eggstra-Planetary Easter! is now LIVE.

Limited Edition Cosmetics, Items Crew, and Missions are now available.



Hop to it and have a cracking good Easter, Captains!

-SavySoda Team

St. Patricks BONUS Event!

St. Patricks Bonus Event is now LIVE.

Lucky BONUS Limited Edition Crew and Four Leaf Clover Gifts with Daily Promotions!



Wishing all Captains a safe and lucky St. Patricks Day in Space.

-SavySoda Team

Galaxy Patch Notes V0.994

Hi Captains!



We hope you have had some excellent matches during February’s Tournament Finals.

The Tournament Prize for February is a new Ship Armor design, Summitran Armor! An alternate version, Diamondium Armor, is now available in the Dove Store.



Please find the latest Patch Notes below. This update is now available on Android and Steam, with iOS/MacOS pending approval.

Please contact our Support Team if you experience any problems updating the game.


V0.994 Changelogs:



  • New Drone Hangar Room, Available at Ship Level 10
  • New Drone Craft: Bombshell Drone, Bulwark Drone, Shieldbuster Drone, and Prism Drone!
  • New Rank Research Upgrades for Drone Craft
  • New Drone Craft Type: Kamikaze
  • Hwacha Drone Launcher now fires Kamikaze Drones
  • Big Flying Rocket now deals AOE Damage to Target instead of Breach Effect
  • Superlazer now Hits Up to 20 Random Targets instead of All Targets
  • Crafts and Android ReloadModifiers adjusted across all Levels
  • Radar Capacity and ReloadTime adjusted across all Levels
  • AntiCraft Laser Reload Time and Max System Power improved
  • Weapon Room Information now displays Targeting Type (Single, Radius, Random)
  • Additional Armor Panels, Lift Slots, and Vent Slots have been Unlocked for Construction
  • Additional Radar Room has been Unlocked for Construction
  • Radar Room Reload Times have been lowered to accommodate additional Room
  • Added Spice Trader Purchase Confirmation
  • Added 49 New Fleet Flags
  • Added 3 New Storyline Missions
  • Added 5 New Senate Voting Options
  • Added New Market Filter Options
  • Updated UFO Research Icon
  • Updated Unknown Material Icon
  • Added several missing Item Profile art assets (ongoing)
  • Added several missing Crew Profile art assets (ongoing)


  • Enabled Ad Blimps for Google Play PC builds
  • New Settings Option to Toggle between 60 and 30FPS
  • Updated Void Storm Event – Drop Chance increased to 100%
  • Reverted change to Cloak status being lost when Cloak Generator is Depowered
  • Volley Attacks with 0 VolleyDelay will now Fire all Shots in a single frame
  • Improved handling of Battle Objects in System Memory
  • Added support for AI Comparisons/Targeting by RoomCategory
  • Added support for AI to Set Ammo by Index
  • Added support for AI to pass Number of Deployed Room Crafts/Androids
  • Added support for Gift Code redemption
  • Added support for Event Merchant Vessel Art
  • Added support for custom PSS Cursor (Desktop)
  • Added several API call safeguards
  • Added several User Security improvements
  • Arabic Language Support to be temporarily disabled


  • Fixed a bug allowing Fleet Members to be Kicked at the start of Tournament Finals
  • Fixed a bug preventing Fleet Menu from updating after Starbux Donation
  • Fixed a bug preventing Research from being applied in current session
  • Fixed a bug preventing Achievements from parsing Reward Data
  • Fixed a bug causing Inventory Items to become unresponsive
  • Fixed a bug causing Crew Drawn to display an incorrect Crew Image
  • Fixed a bug causing excessive Ship Repair Notifications
  • Fixed a bug causing oversized Lazer effects
  • Fixed a bug causing Lazer Room Info to display incorrect Ammo Type
  • Fixed a bug causing Skin Upgrade Cancellations to display a false Cost/Refund
  • Fixed a bug causing Dropship Crew to disappear on Failed Purchase
  • Fixed a bug with Mission Story Selection display
  • Fixed a bug with Pathfinding for Teleported Crew
  • Fixed a bug with Pressure Plate Module Animation
  • Fixed several bugs with Friend Invite/Status System
  • Fixed several instances of Equipment being offset on Crew
  • Fixed several instances of US/EN reference mismatch (Armour/Armor)



Our next Major Update includes a massive amount of new content for players at all Level ranges, with many exciting announcements to follow. We will continue to monitor performance and provide updates regarding Drone Hangar and Anti-Air additions over the coming weeks.


Thank you for all of your provided feedback, leading to many of the fixes noted above. You can join these discussions in the Feedback section of our Official PSS Discord and subreddit.


Good Hunting, Captains!


-SavySoda Team

Valentines in Space!

Love is in the Stars! Valentines Event is now LIVE.



LIMITED EDITION Items, Crew, and free-to-grind rewards!

-SavySoda Team