Strategy · March 12, 2015

Sid Meier’s Starships (2015)

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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

Position in Strategy

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume2.4k Steam reviewsTop 87% in Strategy
Positive rating50% positiveGenre average: 84% — this title sits in top 99%
Metacritic64/100Genre average 79 — top 98% of Strategy titles
Engagement hours9 h averageTop 76% for session depth among Strategy

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Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (10)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Traditional Chinese volume_up

Full audio (2)

  • English
  • Traditional Chinese

Reception Metrics

Steam community

50%Mixed · 2.4k reviews

1.2k positive · 1.2k negative

Metacritic

64/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

4.3/10

Curator recommendations

1.9k

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Strategy · 87
  • Space · 77
  • Turn-Based Strategy · 60
  • Sci-fi · 55
  • Tactical · 34
  • Singleplayer · 33
  • Casual · 20
  • 4X · 18
  • Turn-Based · 10

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Engagement Profile

All-time avg

9h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

5h

Typical completion time

Achievements

31

Steam unlocks available

Strategy releases from 2015

6 Strategy titles launched in 2015 — top 5 by review volume.

Release & Availability

Release dateMar 12, 2015
DeveloperFiraxis Games
Publisher2K
Base price$3.74
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · Support

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Leaderboards

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

  • Buy Sid Meier's Starships