Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 01:09 am
Space Agency 2138 – Strategy Game Review
Space Agency 2138 is a Strategy/Simulation game from Andrew Barry, first launched in 23rd March 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 199+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Space Agency 2138 Stand Out
It’s time to discover a whole new Solar System.
Space Agency 2138 is set in a not too distant future where you can build rockets, fly to other worlds, and mine for resources. Use those resources to build more stuff or sell them to make money.
The larger your organisation gets, the harder it becomes to manage. Will you be able to keep on top of it all?
• Build Rockets
• Build Space Stations
• Build bases on other worlds
A vast new universe to explore.
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Space Agency 2138 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes.
Download & Availability
Space Agency 2138 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Space Agency 2138 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:
Can you pls add a shuttle pack With two shuttles one is big another is fast.
We enjoy the game. The tutorials are good. Campaign is basically another tutorial to the sandbox. Fun builder. Maybe an auto dock feature for the v4 computer. (Make it $1mil) Docking took the most time to master. (Tip: slow down and get all 3 axis aligned perfectly and only one or two impulses to dock or will bump the station and docking is nearly impossible if station is moving). To the developers. We would love an autosave file that is timestamped regardless of campaign or sandbox play. With a customized timer. Ex: 5mins, 10mins, 30mins, 60mins. Ive lost idk how much gameplay Ive lost because our kid will close out the app or we forget to manually save after building something. And the restore doesnt backup often enough. Also the implementation of a log in the admin tab. So you know when/where your spacecraft hit an asteroid or exploded upon landing. Instead of wondering if it just glitched out. (we see this is in the alerts tab but once you look its gone, we think it would be nice to have a 10 or 20 line of the last major events.).
Very rare to actually find a chill game like this, would most definitely recommend this game to anyone that likes ships, planets, crafting, exploring, or just spacey things. The controls for moving is kinda weird. Would like freighter ships maybe. We do hope theres going to be a online multiplayer realm of such and player tradings for this game in future. Theres soo much this game can do so we hope it doesnt stop here! Thank you for the fun game.
This game was really confusing when we started so we decided to do the tutorials and it teached us so much and its really easy. Please add item teleporters so we can teleport our 100,000 uranium to earth.
Ive been playing this game for about 30 minutes and to be honest, the concept of it is good. We find it hard to enjoy a mobile game specifically like this that is too mechanical. The game is overall pretty basic with the graphics which is still really cool in our opinion we think the graphics are just right. We must say tho there is just too many mechanics to be a good mobile phone game. We ourselves find it hard to enjoy a game like this specifically on a phone because there is just too much going on on such a little screen. We know to some that sounds crazy but for as basic as the game looks it turns out to be way to much on the mechanical side to enjoy it. For us at least. By no means am we saying that this game is not good we absolutely love the concept of this game. In fact we played the first Space Agency game and we actually like that one more on mobile phones because its not too basic and its not too complicated. You guys managed to balance the two and make the game fun. In complete honesty this Space Agency 2138 is the type of game that we could see being more successful as a console game because you dont find to many basic/challenging fun free to roam space games like this especially on console. If yall decided to potentially get this on a console we know it would get crazy recognition.
We like the game but once you get to all the planets its not as fun as if you dont go to all the planets and it would be nice if other systems were added to the game. And there are other planets and bigger ships to get there. And lastly the ability to bring animals and animal eggs and when that animal dies you can put it in a container and shoot it into space.
We will say its not the most engaging or entertaining thing Ive ever played, but for a mobile game, its pretty good! We definitely love to reopen it every once in a while when Im bored and see what updates have been added. Im glad to see that the dev(s) are genuinely trying to improve the game, as it was SOOOOO much clunkier in its early years.
It seems promising but the game is super buggy. Our tug randomly loses the ability to stop rotating even when it has full battery and fuel. Our auto pilots will constantly overshoot their targets and sometimes our modules will just end up in the middle of space for no reason. Too much trouble to deal with.
We were a big fan of the automatic flight system so we could watch the rockets and manage other things but now doing that is no longer possible. Nooleus if you are reading this please add the automated flight and landing system back. It would help us out a lot. Thank you.
We played the original space agency and we absolutely loved it. This game is also fun but we think it needs some things. We think it should have an easier way to buy materials when making spacecraft so we wont need to constantly switch between buildings every 10 seconds, other ways to make money such as missions or better research. We think the asteroid satellite should also be used to make money (small amount per found asteroid) and satellites could generate income (like 100-500 per minute depending on solar collection) and Maby the ability to research (giving stations and planetary outposts more potential) but overall we think it is a very fun game.
Its seriously needs a update Im just so bored of the same old rockets and same old systems we wish there was a debug menu to so we can have some fun and run test but we cant im just bored and want more.
Does anybody know Dr. Falkens password? We cant seem to figure out what it is or know how to get it.
We absolutely loved this game, it really gives you a space experience like no other game Ive played. Its so well thought out and you are able to build your own stations from scratch, create your own bases and conduct missions to other planets. Our only suggestion for an update is that for sandbox more instruction is added. You can ours for resources but its aimless. It would take this game to the next level if you were given goals (more like guidelines) on how to start your interplanetary program. The way he sandbox play stands now it takes a while to figure it all out. But all the same great game! Thank you Nooleus and we hope to see further updates and games from you.
Never mind we figured out what we were doing wrong.
Its one of the greatest game but it just needs an update more part if you find this game we recommend you download it we just want more parts like a lunar lander part but just add more parts please. And the ability to skip missions and also to save rockets you build And have already made rockets and you can customize parts and possibly have different continents To launch from please read this Nooleus please add beam pieces make their be every part from the original SpaceAgency please and we like both SpaceAgency Games but please download this. But we wish all of this would come true im only 8.
We were playing it and it crashed for no reason we did have anything else opened no laggy games opened.we would like to not see this again it even Happened in space flight simulator its not our First time.
The original Space Agency was a joy. Gameplay was perfectly suited to a 2D, vertical screen environment via the Cartesian plane, game mechanics were simple, but not annoyingly so, and the sandbox mode provided literal years of enjoyment – which it still does. This migration into a 3D format, while impressive from a technical standpoint, leaves the game bearing effectively no resemblance to the original in aesthetic or gameplay. The UI is not at all intuitive and the flight model is something better suited to a desktop environment than a mobile device. We wish the time and effort that went into this game had gone into maintaining the original.
Hey, for the $1.99 we certainly had our fun & plan to play more. We have 1 slight problem that we hope is something that could be addressed: When starting a new game, there is an option to start with no buildings. If you do this, thats basically the end of your game because even though you have money, you have no resources. Without resources, you cant build the only building that you have an option to build (the warehouse) since you have no cement & no iron (both required for the build). Also, you cant construct a cement or iron ours . . . First because there is no option. . . And everything is purchased inside the warehouse, which of course requires the resources that you dont have. Easy fix, just start the player with enough Cement & Iron to make the warehouse & Im hoping everything from there will be on autopilot. see what we did there . . . Autopilot <3 the game, hope to see more from this developer, in fact, thats where Im headed now, to see if they have more titles. Fun, fun. . . Even tho Im having a tough time hitting gold on some of the challenges. Im about 10 seconds shy on a few, which is what brought us to sandbox mode. Still havent figured out blueprints, or what we can do with the computer console . . . Or sat data after. . . We only bought it yesterday & hope to make it to another planet sometime this week. ~ XP-Lionheart Gamecenter: Johnasauras Rex.
Needs a better blueprint design like a building that you could use to place piece then export the blueprint.
The game has tons of potential and Is super fun but we have a few suggestions that would make the game more enjoyable: 1. A map feature like in the first simple rockets would make space travel way more fun and would help out a lot. 2. The game needs more rocket parts, theirs simply not that many. A few ideas we had are a solid fuel rocket engine, a detachable fuel tank like the one on the space shuttle, and a plane style/ winged space craft( if that makes sense, like the space shuttle) 3. It would be super fun to be able to have a online option so you could play with your friends and collaborate and make awesome space stations, bases, etc Thats pretty much it, the game is awesome and these are just our suggestions.
3 things you should add to make the game better 1 :more options for rockets: we think it would be nice to se some of SAs old rockets like the Soyuz and SLS and space ships like the Orion,Apollo,N1 and Gemini-titan . 2 :more locations or multiple locations: the current location is an island at the start on HOME and it wouldve Ben neat for more locations EX an harbor with an airport 3 :more items : now this we have a problem with because in the VAB when you send the rocket tho a pad it wouldve Ben neat for a obit of a crawler with the rocket heading for the pad and we think it would be nice to have a jet in the game to bring a rocket part for the spacecraft EX NASAs guppy planes for Gemini and Apollo and NASAS crawler.
Im having trouble on our iPhone so when o play the game the controls dont appear but only we can swipe.
The game is great, but what if the antenna dishes of the ADS and Satellite and the tug piece of the Tug were components that you could attach and detach.
We found the delta station but all the docking ports a locked and could you give us the code to the station to enter.
Good but we dont want to keep docking modules repeatedly pls add a module that allows us to make a custom space station without having to do all that work.
Ive loved this game since we got it, and Ive built large stations and bases. Id love to see it get a major update, and Im considering buying all of the non-currency items. Id like to suggest automatic transit of resource vessels, as in vessels being codable to automatically launch (disabled in space), transfer, land on planets, and transfer resources into the ship along with fuel. Therefore there can be easier resource transfer, and along with this probably some advanced station components that take these large amounts of resources to build. Also you cant travel through the jump drive module due to the drive in the middle. To wrap this up maybe some new career levels too. Welp thats the end of our rant. Good day, and keep the good work up.
New ideas we thinks you should add a nozzle adjustment upgrade desc: adjusting the bell shaped nozzle during the flight would be good because it could use less fuel the scuttle a shuttle that needs the upgrade to be used you also need a scuttle pad which launches and lands scuttles the scuttle has fuel enough to get to Noah in a hour Ive been playing this game a whole lot and built a station orbiting the moon anyway another idea the medical bay (p) this bay is not the one that you have to pay money instead to power this module you need to fill all the cylinders with medication tubes you can make them on earth heres a glitch we found the carbon components made our rocket bad at flying even though it said that it was the best still please respond also the controls for the sat met sat and tug have weird controls like we try to move but it just spins around.
It doesnt have to be complicated , just something more than a color. Like a description or title/job. We want to get attached to the astronauts, they just feel like tools in their current form, and they all feel the same. Perhaps even some vocalization sound effects with slightly different voices / registers.
But we really need to talk about the tug. We really like the tug but there is one thing that is really hard, The fuel tank. The fuel tank is very little for its intended purpose and we feel like other people agree with us.Allow us to describe what the tug do again the tug is supposed to transport other space modules and put them into their attended place safely of course. But the fuel tank the only problem it very low and it burn through fuel. But we have a proposal do you remember the ISS claw arm maybe you can create a claw arm for this game. Maybe Im wrong with having a claw arm in the game but it is the only idea we got. And we really like this game and we are 100% cheering and supporting this game. P.s you dont have to make the claw arm exactly like the one from the ISS we were just thinking and if you do instead of making it (make it your own) ;).
Rarely do we give review to games. This one is a real gem. Nothing similar on App Store. Amazing game for space lovers and galaxy dwellers. Game needs a bit of polishing, but even in this state we had a blast playing it. One of the best phone games we have played in a long time. For the creators: Keep working on it and it will have great success.
Hello developers. We have been playing your game for a good while and we absolutely love it. One thing we do want to see in the future is the ability to choose what area the Starting base is. While we like the starting island we think it can be interesting to see other environments on home like A Coastal Base, A Desert Base, and an Inland base. With all that said you dont have to add this. Thank you for reading through this and making an amazing game.
When we first got the game, it looked normal but when we launched a rocket, it doesnt have the launch time so can you please put it pls.
We love this game, we got it a few years ago and watched it grow though updates. It has become such an amazing experience to play and we are always so excited to see what comes next. Definitely recommend.
Give it a try and you will be hooked.
We think that this game could be very popular, so PLEASE DONT GIVE UP ON IT!!!! Here are a few things we think would be good to add. 1: Robotic arm: If you look at the International Space Station (ISS) one of the first things to stand out is its robotic arm. It is a very useful tool that the station has, allowing it to move ships. We think this would be a great design to add to the game, allowing players to move ships with no engines. To connect, it could have a smaller version of the magnet on the TUG ship. The arm itself could move like the basic ship movement controls. Instead of a rocket, it could have a magnet activate. This object would most likely run best on electricity. 2: Escape Pod Module: This is really more for role-play and just fun. We think adding escape pods would be a fun way to get away from the ship in emergencies. It could be piloted after a short 2-3 second main engine burn. The interior would have to be small, because most escape pods dont hold more than one person. It could have a large window in the front, and a flight computer below it. After you click the flight computer, there could be a button that would launch the escape pod. The module of launches from could be similar size to the Living Module already in the game. It could hold 6 pods, and in the middle have a autopilot computer to tell the pods where to go. (You could also leave it blank if you want to free fly it.)You could also use the password door lock (already on most airlocks) to make the escape pods more secure. (Another version of this is to be able to access the flight control you must enter a code) 3: our third and final idea is a large autopilot for stations. In order to get to places easily, we would use the autopilot. Sadly, the autopilot isnt a thing for docked stations. Rather than enabling it all together, you could add a new command module that has this capability. Thank you for such an amazing game, please continue to read reviews and update the game. :).
The game seems pretty well made, but the 3D thing detracts from the experience on a phone. We really enjoyed space agency and its honestly really frustrating to see the features Ive been waiting actual years for in the original game, added to a sequel that we dont enjoy nearly as much. Please consider finishing your first game, or allow a 2D option in this one.
There should be checkpoints for missions where you can pick up from a certain stage instead of having to go through the entire tedious and repetitive building process when you want to retry a mission to get a better medal.
OK now why either you games dont have an automatic dock we mean sure everyone will use it but what about people that cant dock we know you guys wont read this but please do because we are really having troubles of docking sometimes we do it just right some of them explodes the entire station so please make the auto pilot a little more good and make sure it has of the range of the docking or you can if you have a space station it automatically docs you.
Im trying to build a space station like the freed space station that was thought of during the 1980s through 1990s. Would you be able to make that happen by chance. Keep up with the great stuff you do for this app it is amazing. The updates you do are awesome keep up doing with the great game.
1.planes so you can have a air force 2.Meteors 3.rovers 4.Parachutes 5.escape towers 6. Make you able to walk on planets before you colonize them 7.drills on rockets 8.here comes a good one… Multiplayer! Ok but still we love you guys for making this games newest updates have a great 2021-2022.
It is just simply a wonderful game.
Game is good but it needs new things to do like: carrier or challenge and it needs new rocket parts and rovers maybe also explorer astronaut and you will get more 5-3 stars.
Please fix the Disappearing station bug. After returning to our custom station it disappears visually, with just one main marked module remaining. Please fix this long persistent bug. Months ago Ive already sent an e-mail with the video example. Thanks.
This is a major step up from the original in mechanics, tactics, and things to do but there are a few things that the first iteration did better, for example the tutorial in 2138 isnt in depth enough with controls, especially with astronauts and how to refuel and refill. And there needs to be a reason to gain money, like maybe needing it for researching (we could be wrong here and it might be needed for blueprints) or needing it for upgrades or maybe even cosmetics. Also being able to look around while moving by having a finger on controls and one on the screen would be nice. Having objectives would be great too, like Reach planet ABC and establish a base for a space suit skin. Otherwise the aspect of exploring and farming for recourses is very nice. Another amazing aspect added is the autopilot, long gone are the days where you had to sit for ages to get back to base building while you launch a rocket for something youll need an hour from then. All in all a great game! Hope to see more additions along the way.
The game crashes when we try to transfer resources.
The game is awesome we have played the first space agency and this one is way better but it needs something and that is rovers landers and orbiters thats computer does not require people on board to use the computer system.
We found a bug when we were swapping between the outside of the space craft look to inside look and this only happens when you are transporting the observation module we hope you fix it we are a big fan this game is fun but there bug that need to be fixed in time.
This game is legit. We really enjoy the way one can interact on a 3D level yet manage to explore and flourish various places. Simultaneously up until now at the date of this review the app collects no data on the user end and for only 5 dollars a game one to surely bring entertainment and an exciting prospect.
We love this game But what about the delta 9.
There are only two things that we would add to the game. Manual reentry, and astronauts being able to do space walks. Other than that the game is perfect.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.14.1
- Size: 87.63 MB
- iOS: 13 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Andrew Barry]()
Last updated: 20th November 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Simulation | Developer: Andrew Barry