Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 03:53 pm
AQ: First Contact – Entertainment Game Review
AQ: First Contact is a Entertainment/Strategy/Action game from Seven Point Red Ltd, first launched in 21st February 2019.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 174+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes AQ: First Contact Stand Out
Command the Stars in AQ: First Contact – The Ultimate Space Strategy MMO!
Take your place as Commander in this thrilling real-time strategy (RTS) space game. Start with a single Corvette and build your war fleet into an unstoppable armada of Titan-class starships. Customize your ships with powerful weapons, advanced upgrades, and unique abilities to conquer the galaxy in this online multiplayer game.
FEATURES
- Epic Space Fleet Battles: Create and upgrade your fleet with Corvettes, Destroyers, Battleships, and massive Titans, each fully customizable with sci-fi weaponry and tech.
- Real-Time PvP & Co-op: Join intense 3v3 multiplayer battles or team up with friends in guilds and alliances to dominate the galaxy.
- Cross-Platform MMO: Play with players worldwide on mobile or PC. Sync your progress and never miss a moment in this sci-fi strategy MMO.
- PvE & Exploration: Take on space pirates, raiders, and xeno invaders in campaign missions, then explore vast open-world space zones for resources, rare loot, and new tech.
- Resource Management and Base Building: Mine, salvage, and manage resources. Upgrade your space station, build mines, fighter hangars, and shield generators to defend your territory.
- Alliance Warfare: Join or create corporations, declare war, forge alliances, and capture strategic outposts and sectors to expand your influence.
- Events & Rewards: Compete in daily and weekly live events for legendary rewards.
- In-Depth Crafting: Upgrade equipment, forge legendary weapons, and customize your arsenal for your personal playstyle.
- Global Chat & Social Play: Plan strategies in global chat or create private channels for your alliance and friends.
Experience the next generation of sci-fi warfare, base building, and interstellar conquest. Download now and command your fleet to victory in the ultimate space MMO RTS!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, AQ: First Contact is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Xeno raid fleet fixes.
Download & Availability
AQ: First Contact is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get AQ: First Contact on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Took us a while to realize how everything worked but Ive been playing for a long time now and its our favorite game.
Its missing the cruiser class but other than that its cool.
Greetings! We are Adm. A new but enthusiastic player of AQ, we have some suggestions to improve the game, one or two complaints, and a lot of praise. (Warning: this may get long.) First off, good stuff: separate in-game currencies, the ability for a player to go from complete beginner to near Titan-level in a month, and especially the sheer level of customizability available with ships. Next up, bad stuff (sorry): we actually have few problems with AQ, and most of those we do have will be addressed in suggestions, that said, its still far from perfect. And now, the moment youve all been waiting for: Suggestions! Here are some things that we players would like to see, in no particular order: a way for players to directly exchange resources and/or chips (and in-game currency); a translator for the chat; an actual help section in the guide; making it so that a fleet can use more small ships like corvettes, or fewer large ships like battleships or titans; a retreat function so that a weak player wont be annihilated by a fleet of titans; maybe give the trader stuck drone mission a small chance to give credits. Im definitely forgetting at least two or three others, but this is a good start. In conclusion, we would like to reiterate that we love AQ, and am looking forward to seeing it become even better in the future. And if youve read this far: thank you. Thank you for wading through this review, thank you for giving us your time and attention, we hope it was worth it. Farewell, we will see you in the Stars. O7.
Its pretty bad when a new player starts and get into an alliance and is accused of being someone elses alt! This game is filled with paranoid players that thinks everyone is out to get them and your an alt.
We decided to try this game from the description. Im more interested in coop and pve play, not pvp. Since the game advertises multiple game play options we thought Id give it a try. We saw on the galactic map there was an area for pvp. Great. We assumed that meant pvp only happens there. We asked questions while in game when we ran into things we couldnt figure out. We were trying to figure out salvaging and mining and had asked a question. A player replied he would help us, but only if we joined his corporation. We remained silent and proceeded to figure it out on our own. Shortly after, that same player had somehow tracked us down and attacked our fleet. Of course he is a much higher level player than us. Im just getting started. Suddenly three other player fleets jumped in and helped us. Which we did not understand. Only one of our ships survived the battle, which was more than we expected. After the battle was over we were trying to figure out what had just happened and what we were doing when one of the fleets that had just helped us attacked us and finished our lone ship off. We then asked in chat why would you attack us when Im a new player asking for help. His reply was he wanted to get our attention. We closed the game out and deleted it from our phone immediately. We dont play games to get griefed by higher players right from the start. We play them to relax. The fact that other players can arbitrarily attack anyone at any time is a huge turn off. We wasnt able to even get our feet under us in the game and Im being attacked by higher level players. We know most people prefer pvp style games. Good for them. Im not one of those. We prefer coop and pve. Which was why we liked what we saw in the game description. But thats not what we got.
So when we got this game we had a blast we were very addicted to it and would play for hours we would always look for fights and try and make the galaxy a better place but one day when we deleted the game by accident we lost all our progress and all our hard work that we worked months for and when we tried to get in contact with one of the admins we got no response back!!!!, all we want is to have our old account back and to be able to enjoy time with our friends Im leaving a five star rev due to how fun this game is. But what Im trying to say is can we please get our account back that Ive worked months for. Severely Your biggest fan.
This is a very great game, love to see ship progression over time, however we do belive there could be improved graphics, and animations ,.
The whole concept of this game is very cool and a lot of fun! This game is different from other spaceship games and the details of it definitely contribute the five star ratings. We like how you can upgrade ships, go to different galaxies, get loot and we like the designs of the ships. The only thing that we would do to make this game even better would be to add more to it. (Specifically adding more ships, more diversity to the game like maybe a campaign, better amination and DEFINITELY making it so that you can have more ships in one fleet. It would really help) But overall this game is fun and we really hope that you could take our ideas above as advice.
This game is set up perfectly for fun it has REAL Player vs Player Combat you can play as long as you want you dont need some kind of token, when you have big fleets if they get destroyed you do have to wait for repairs but you can make many fleets so just take another and you can make small fleets that repair instantly you can join in other peoples battles and choose which side you want to join your resources are not ever taken you get resources in all battles even if you lose they have small to large mining fleets you can attack at any level to get resources they have coins you can spend to speed up repairs and upgrades you can get them through game play and pay for them and they are cheap to buy the missions when you first start do get difficult real quick but that doesnt matter you just need to level up your fleet and you do that by attacking mining fleets and others to get resources including other players and people also can not destroy your base and this game is not pay to play if you spend money you can level up things faster and get some better parts for your ship thats about it and you dont have to spend much some people complain about paying to play games like these and in some you get a huge advantage for paying but not this one and we dont understand that if you want to play that new Xbox or play station game you go and spend hundreds to play, so if your going to play these games that took hard work and dedication to create just like those why do you feel you shouldnt pay anything to play, and if you dont pay anything why do you get angry at the advantage that people who have paid have that you dont they PAID FOR IT! We dont understand this way of thinking but anyway this game is not pay to play it is fantastic try it for yourself.
You do not have to do a lot of grinding and its very open world. Us and our friends have had a lot of fun times playing this game. There is almost no glitches in the game.
It is a fun game with challenging missions and fun multiplayer battles. Could use some new even bigger ships but otherwise is pretty cool.
At has to be the best free game Ive ever played! Its nice, its fun, its addicting, and the graphics are incredible. The only things we would change are the ship repair speed and the max amount of ships in one fleet. Other than that, 5.0.
This has to be the worst game ever made! The progress in the game is the slowest Ive ever seen! Theres only two type of missions available from the start, they get hard quick with very little in means of upgrading your three ships that youre assigned with no other option, upgrades for the ships are far, few and in between, not to mention the money to upgrade them, no storyline, very basic and very boring tutorial, youll find yourself confused, lost and frustrated, waiting for boring dialogue only to have to wait more to finish upgrades! Dont waste your time nor your effort, and especially do not support devs that can come up with such a headache of a game because supporting them only leads to more worthless games, heartbreakers that point towards a glim of light and hope excitement but fail hard to deliver on such a note! They tug at your heart strings to lure you into a cash money grab! You have been warned! Buyer beware.
Leveling and advancing is slow. But we can see where it all leads. We like joining other battles as it helps get tech from enemies we could otherwise defeat. Initial upgrades take way too long for new players. You can actually control combat, craft items and upgrade ships. Very very good game, without a giant money grab like VEGA conflict.
Honestly, we didnt expect much from the game. We expected one of those games that had timers out the whazoo and a combat system that lacked strategy or finesse. We were throughly wrong. Dont let the lack of ratings or reviews fool you, this is a quality game to have on the mobile device. The mini world maps where you can salvage, ours, combat NPCs, or attack corporate territory is a very nice touch that gives you a lot of opportunity to play around in. Building your ships to use plasma, rail guns, or even nukes is very important to plan accordingly, especially when including the fittings, shields, and armor you have for your ships. The battles have a lot of little things to take into account as well. Different weapons have different ranges which means movement of your ships to keep out of the enemys range while hitting them with your own salvos can work. Have rail guns? Well, time it correctly and you can hit two ships with your charged attack if you position correctly. A lot of little things to take into account. And the different tiers of weapons and equipment and ships allows for a lot of progression for players to grind for. We will say however, at a certain point you will see a certain meta when it comes to endgame fleets. The floating fortress ship with missiles, point defense, and repair drones will be very prevalent when looking at the endgame players. The repair drones can be especially powerful and annoying. Throw enough missiles at someone and they cant compete, you very rarely see other weapons like plasma or gauss in those endgame player fights. We havent attempted it yet, but it also seems like a carrier type ship with fighters wont do much either. Fighters are not effective in the fights we have seen and encountered with them being more of a distraction than any form of damage dealer. But perhaps we need to do more testing to see if Im wrong. Oh and be sure you have good connection when playing this game, everything depends on good ping and bad ping can really screw you in a battle or traveling through the maps. We would personally love to see bombers bays as well as fighter bays, have those be a bigger influence in the fight. Maybe a proper carrier class ship that specializes in that. Also, we think a cell or a fitting that shoots off an emp to disable the enemy ships from attacking for a brief second or disable their shields may be interesting, although that may become a bit cheesy. Maybe we can have missions where we can take bounties, escort traders to certain locations, or even a simple delivery mission would be nice. Add a bit more lore to the universe? Maybe NPCs that can provide you with dialogue or benefits? Perhaps even planets you could trade resources or even fight over? Just random ideas that pop in our head Either way, the dev(s) have done an overall amazing job on this game. We would absolutely recommend it to any interested in a sci-fi space game. The dev(s) are always looking to improve and even have a roadmap to announce feature fixes or updates. To which, we are every much looking forward to. Stay safe out there in the void of space and be sure to keep your eyes open, space can be dangerous to those unprepared.
Simply a great game. The ship battle format is really fun.
Definitely recommend this game super fun the only part we would say needs to be adjusted is the ship repair time and the amount of chips it takes to repair them but otherwise 5/5 stars :).
We Like the game!one of the things about this game is that the gamer must have direct input in battle by allowing him or her to control direction of their ships in combat,the other is technology research should be Autonomous.as head of a Corp others are their handling different divisions of their Company within free up your time to focus on the big picture of ur goals.thx JS.
Now the game is being worked on and it is really nice but one thing bothers us the ships we see in a lot of space games we were hoping for unique designs but the game is awesome its a good space game.
No substance to the space station its just a picture 2 D graphics not so great.
Pros: A nice style space MMO Highly customizable space ships Corporation system Weapons have special abilities you can choose when to activate Something not as greedy as VEGA CONFLICT Cons: Boring 2d space station that has no affect on gameplay whatsoever Controlling spaceships in combat is very bland and slow, dragging a straight line to move in that direction ANYONE can join a battle youre in, AKA other players can gank your kills and leave you empty handed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.751
- Size: 194.90 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
- Developer: Seven Point Red Ltd
Last updated: 27th November 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Seven Point Red Ltd