Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 01:52 am
Pixel Starships™ – Entertainment Game Review
Pixel Starships™ is a Entertainment/Strategy/Roleplaying game from Savy Soda Pty Ltd, first launched in 6th January 2016.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 34,797+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pixel Starships™ Stand Out
Featured by Apple in Best New Games! From one of the most successful Mobile Game Kickstarter campaigns of the year comes Pixel Starships!
Pixel Starships is the world’s first total spaceship management game in an 8bit massive online universe. In Pixel Starships, you command every aspect of your ship from construction to battles in a single persistent world.
Featured Reviews –
Touch Arcade – Pixel Starships tasks you with outfitting your very own ship with resource rooms, staff, and weapons. This looks Awesome!
MMGN – The graphics in this 8Bit indie game is the best we've seen in a retro style game for a long time
PocketTactics – I’m intrigued by the cutaway side-view of the starship with turbolifts and transporters at the ready
TechTimes – The World’s First 8-Bit Total Starship Management Game Hits The Online Universe
The Discovery Channel – A fully immersive starship captain experience.
Key Features –
● Build Epic Starships of your own design.
● Many races, aliens, factions to command and conquer.
● Battle it out with other real players in a single massive online universe.
● Manage diplomacy, recruitment, research, exploration!
● Control ship's power and limited resources. Discover epic weapons.
● Build and deploy support ships to support your Starfleet.
● Cross section full ship control and battles.
● Explore planets, discover secrets of space.
● Form alliances and battle with your friends to achieve victory!
● Program situational AI commands to systems and crew allowing automatic combats and offline play.
If you're a fan of Star Wars and Star Trek; if you enjoy games like EVE, Clash of Clans, FTL, or Homeworld, you'll love Pixel Starships!
Note –
Pixel Starships is totally free to play and is designed for perfect balance for all players. However, there are in-app items that can be purchased for real money to help speed up progress or offer cosmetic improvements. If you don't want this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings.
Note on Auto-Renewing Subscription –
Pixel Starships contains a optional Subscription Membership. Members receive extra missions, bonuses, and daily rewards. Membership content is regularly updated.
The Monthly Membership Subscription cost is USD $3.99 per month or a similarly adjusted currency price in your local region. Please refer to IAP menu or in app display for localised pricing. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
The subscription is auto renewable and will renew monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription can be cancelled via iTunes subscription manager. There is also a 7 day free trial for the membership; the free trial period is not transferrable and any remaining free time is cancelled if a paying subscription starts.
Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
EULA: http://www.pixelstarships.com/eula
Privacy Policy: http://www.pixelstarships.com/privacypolicy
As per Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years of age to play or download Pixel Starships.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pixel Starships™ is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Hotfix for several issues
Download & Availability
Pixel Starships™ is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pixel Starships™ 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:
We were trying to fire our crew, but after this all of a sudden it restarted the game, and then we tried our best to fire again, and it still rears again. We dont even understand why this is happening and we just wanna play this game because its fun want to play this game anymore so Im just waiting for it.
Just try it for yourself. Its a really great game plz try.
We dont know where to start this is going to be really short but we just think pixel starships is underrated its a very interesting game concept and even if the graphics are pixelated its a really good game the only thing that could change is just how far you can get into the game but its still being updated so we dont think we will have to wait for long just a note to the devs if they read this keep up the great work.
Stellar game. Helps our strategic thinking in business While simultaneously helping us rest.
This game so far has been better than expected. We havent run into any payroll issues as of yet however Im still only one day in. The only real downside that we see in this game so far is that whenever you enter battle, your shields are not automatically up you have to manually turn your engine down or off then raise your shields after which the enemy has already got two or three shots in on you or more. So far that is the only frustrating thing we found with this game. If they change that, Ill change it to a five star rating.
We usually dont play retro looking games but the graphics are pretty good and we like the gameplay. Although the storyline is lacking but overall pretty good.
Best building/strategy game with easy to follow tutorial.
We had a friend introduce us to this game, and we are LOVING it. The pixel-art style makes it feel like an older game, and the ability to gather all resources instead of having to pay for some put this on our favorite games list.
Hello there! Im writing this here because we cant from the game itself (bug 1#,) to report a bug about the ground battles. To make a long explanation short, we found a glitch where you enable auto-battle in the middle of an attack one of your crew made after they are going back to their starting point, making said crew attack again and essentially kill the enemy. This means your entire team can completely sweep any ground battle without a single hit (bug 2#) Also, quick side note, why do some upgrades take MORE THAN A WEEK?! We get it, you need people to spend more time on your game for more money, but A WEEK?! Thats just absurd! If you want to even skip it, you have to spend like 1000 Starbux, which isnt a lot for people with 100k, but for people like us in mid-end game, thats just a dream for us! Please fix your game, and when you do, our rating will be 5 stars.
Ive been playing this game for a while now and Ive always said to our self this game would be so much fun if it had mobile suits or mecha suit nuff said.
Love FTL, here it is in a mobile package with some new features.
Its fun what were you expecting more.
This game is slow paced but definitely pay to win.
We really like science fiction of the pixel starship because we know its the most important ship in the universe.
Its a cute game. Very ritual of a 3-D pixel game. We wish they would change the music. And also changed the writing because its hard to read.
Muy buen juego suave we muy estratega.
We really enjoy the Star Trek/Star Wars vibe.
Such a great concept with great art and great mechanics. This is everything you could ever want from a game like this with so much variety of everything. Our only wish is that there were more battle types (such as team battles along with more creative modes). Other than that two enthusiastic thumbs up. PS savy if you see this, hit us up with some Starbucks.
We love how youncan navigate your own ship with endless possibilities. Please add more cool stuff like this.
Im a retired gamer from the days of glory , we dont play anything anymore . But this games inspires us it focus us and makes us think and really teaches patience . This game is entertaining fun its simple and crazy complicated.
Its amazing theres no prompted ads. Its a good pase and honestly it cant get better. Its the perfect mix of adventure plus space plus builder. Its just its so good we cannot describe it.
Just started but the game so far is very fun to play.
Nice little game to just chill on.
We have Ftl at home is how we would describe this game.
It is a pretty good game it kinda reminds of fallout shelter mixed with eve.
The game was creative and visually looked amazing! What drove us away is the PVP. Youre never strong enough to defend your ship when you go offline. An option to turn off PVP with safeguards in place to ensure its balanced would be helpful.
We keep trying to speed up the upgrade on our gas canister by paying starbux but every time it takes our money and kicks us out of the app and it doesnt work and we lose our starbux.
Takes the original pixel game and sends it into interstellar space pun intended, but very enjoyable.
Having a great time playing this game.
A classic oldie, tiny bit buggy but ya gotta love it.
Love the game. Very deep and easy to put down and come back to. Highly recommend.
We enjoy the simplicity of the game. Building, leveling and fighting has great potential for growth. We are new to the game and enjoying it very much! We would like to see the pvp be live if it isnt already. That and on pc.
The gameplay is interesting and we enjoy the base building. We think our only issue is the small text size.
Easy to play but addicting, love the ship building.
This is hands down the best future/alien/galactic war/ starship space game on the App Store and has been for years.
This game is THE GOAT NO CONTEST.
We do love us a space game though.
Great gameplay for quick pastimes.
Its been fun for us. We enjoy little pixel games like this. Chill turn based combat for crew and ship battles are real time. AI chips/process lets the game do the work for you if you dont want to manage the ship battles in real time. The story can be funny and really as long as Im having fun, its worth it to us. You can earn starbux in a variety of ways or use micro transactions to progress or earn items but you can also just grind for most items. We just started the 3.99 monthly trial so well see how that affects our experience. No negatives so far. Some minor bugs every now and then but we just like the game for some down time or when things get boring and cant game on our ps5. Try it out, you might like it is our advice. The community has always been another positive in our book. Hope this helps someone make a choice and it turns out to be a game they really enjoy.
Pretty dope game, you guys should make a Star Trek version.
How in the Sam hell do we get 5 jet blacks in a row when there is 4 cow boy bebop characters available the biggest scam is that they make you believe you have a chance of getting anyone else.
The DEEP SCi-Fi experience where you control every thing.
So far the game is fun. It was a little buggy at first but after it updated its been running fine. Good time waster.
Seems interesting but seems like a grind.
Love this game if yall can do a Star Wars, halo both normal and the flood ,dead space, like crossover like yall did with cyanide and happiness this game would conquer the mobile pixel 8bit game world.
Same as the gameplay in the ad, really good game with no mandatory ads.
Had a cool look, but interface is super hit and miss and everything just moves at an irritatingly slow pace. We appreciate that the game has a trial and error aspect to learn how to play but having to wait several minutes for the game to plod along and the round to end cause you made a mistake and cant win while the opponent cant win or lose either is just not a great experience. Also, the game has a Cowboy Bebop tie in that is advertised on socials, but it looks like you have to both buy a season pass and grind out the actual Cowboy Bebop stuff. That would be cool if youre playing the game well before this event. But as a new player, even sinking money into the game, it doesnt look like you would be able to get much of the actual Bebop stuff. Tbh, could be wrong about that but its not really explained well. Regardless, really wanted to like this game, but just not much there for us.
There is no way to contact support. This app has not been loading since the update 4 days ago, and they have not done anything to address the problem. Was playing every day all day until this update. Please fix.
We really like this game because you can have all kind of ships and battle other.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.999.42
- Size: 419.19 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES, TH, VI
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Loot Boxes, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Savy Soda Pty Ltd
Last updated: 8th January 2026 | Genre: Entertainment, Strategy | Developer: Savy Soda Pty Ltd