Star Command
Step into the gaming world with Star Command, one of the top $2.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Star Command, LLC, this captivating Simulation game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 12+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 2nd May 2013, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 3rd September 2022.
Whether you have a liking for Simulation, Strategy, games, Star Command is sure to keep you hooked!
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Build and command your own starship, hire your crew, and explore the universe, and defend against alien civilizations!
4.5/5 – Maclife
“…equal parts challenging and clever, making it a must-play for sci-fi strategy fans.”
4.5/5 – TouchArcade
“Should you dive in immediately? Absolutely.”
4/5 – Appspy
“If you’re looking for a strategy title on the iOS that will keep you on your toes, Star Command should more than suffice.”
- Universal App – iPad and iPhone included
- Premium game – no in app purchase roadblocks
- HD support for retina pixel goodness
- Level your crew members up and earn new skills
- Build a ship in your own image!
- Four distinct ship hulls to choose from
- Focus on tactical, science or engineering
- Amazing soundtrack intensifies the action and exploration
- Over 10 alien species to discover
Brought to you in beautiful HD pixelated glory, Star Command brings to life the challenges and joys of managing a starship. Upgrade your ship, get out into the unknown and watch your crew die grizzly deaths all at your command. Strange and annoying alien civilizations await you at every turn. Manage each of your ships roles, focusing on science skills, tactical combat and ship engineering. Prevent alien invaders from taking over your ship and causing massive amounts of damage with sentry guns. Revive dying crew members with new rooms! And don’t forget that your decisions matter – an enemy made early could come back to haunt you later.
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of Star Command on 3rd September 2022:
- Fixed an issue with sending feedback email.
- Fixed an issue with XML parsing.
- Fixed a couple crash logs.
Hear from the Players – Star Command Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about Star Command:
Its great to see that this game has been updated and hasnt died out. Im coming back to it just for the nostalgia, we really wish they would make a part two or add to the existing story.
This game is amazing, because we love space and spa ships and things. But we would love for you to have an update that is a lot like Star Command Galaxies because that game seems to be a lot more detailed and interesting than this one. Still five star though for how amazing the game is, not in comparison to Star Command Galaxies. If it were in comparison, Id probably give it a 3 star. So if you can make more planets in the galaxies, teleport to a planet and an enemy ship and Trade Stations. It would be amazing to have this game molded into something like Star Command Galaxies, but this game is amazing we would of course recommend it because its fun, (short), and action packed. We recommend starting on normal then when you beat it go on to hard, because hard is probably the most realistic since your shield breaks easier and enemies can invade. We love this game, so please listen to our review. Thank you for an amazing time and an amazing journey through the universe.
Love this game, happy to see new updates. However, theres a new bug where you cant hire the folks on Norfoo. You start to add gems and it just wont let you add more than one gem.
Even though its been a while this game is still amazing even though its not running perfectly smooth we still love it as well as the new ship designs this will always be our most favorite game And we are glad that we got the chance to play it although it will eventually be removed.
What would be really cool is if you could choose wether to join the Antorians or the Humans when you (spoiler) decide to either give the princess to them or protect her yourself. So then youll be fighting the Midorians instead. Also this game is fantastic and so much fun but the stories needs to be finished, and any criticism about how its hard to make your crew do what you want and how the ship texture looks bad and upgrades stick out of it and make it look is completely bull crap. All takes to order a crew member to do something is to tap them and tap what you want them to do and theyll get right to it. And texture problems have never happened ever in all the time we’ve beat every mode in this game (trying out every ship to.) So really all you guys that say that are just trash that hate for what ever dumb reason you have and shouldnt because this game is awesome.
Amazing game, they have a sequel to this that gets way more in depth on pc under the same name. We had no idea about this and we figured somebody might care.
The game is amazing, but we do think there should be a choice to join admiral Midcari, and maybe making some of the other species passive instead of just the midorians and Horus and dunt. We also just wanted to know what that contraband feature was because we thought it sounded cool. But other than those things the game was absolutely amazing.
Good game but theres a bug or glitch where we crash after the Neptune mission. Cant get past it. Very frustrating but otherwise solid game to buy. EDIT: What was mentioned above was simply our stupidity on not knowing what to click. Great game with a good story. Nice mechanics. We would like the ability to board enemy ships or land on planets maybe but other than that its worth the 2.99! Would definitely recommend for anyone who likes RPG, RTS, and sci-fi games.
More ships more missions and more rooms.
And who did the music for it? Did you guy make any other games recently??
We just came back to this game after a bit of a hiatus, and it still holds up. Not only is it a rock solid game that you can play over and over, but once you buy it, you get the whole game! No DLC or micro-transaction nonsense! This is highly worth the couple of bucks door fee to get in. Our only complaint is sometimes in the heat of a crazy battle, trying to pinpoint select a crew member or block for them to move can be wonky if not zoomed in all the way, but such is the life of a touch screen. Otherwise, solid overall, worthy of the 5 stars.
This game is by far the best starship commanding game in the App Store, the devs did an amazing job organizing and creating this game. But we feel this game is missing something from it, it needs diplomacy because every alien race you meet just attacks you no matter what you say and this game should be more like a sandbox game with a campaign to give the player more freedom. Overall though this game is amazing and has a tone of potential.
We think you should have the choice to play as an alien like the green people or something. Add some more systems and aliens so we can have a great starship experience but a great game and we think Ill love it more if you added these things. PS not many games let you play as an alien so it would make it unique.
Cant believe we waited so long to get this game. FTL meets Trek. Fun, challenging, and good writing. Hoping they make another one.
Thanks star ship engineers keep those tubular tubes and motivation (torture) machines going!(:
Will you, please add new content??? Bring Star Command Galaxies, to IOS. PLEASE!
We’ve played this game a lot and am just now getting back into it. The only reason Im rating it with a 4 instead of five is because the pc version is more expanded. Given that phones games now in this era leave much to be desired, Im sure they can now port the pc version to the cell phone. Or even give us that sequel that has been in development like forever. But more on the serious note thanks for creating such a great game that we can still come back to and enjoy like new every time. Most cell phone games today are throw away games. You pick them up, you play them for a little bit, then you delete them to try something else.. Games like Star Command you can always come back to later and still really get back into it..
Loved this game! Hope yall make a pt 2. We love how you can move around inside the ship! Thats the part of the most and upgrading your ship and different parts and assignments for the characters. Yall should make a pt2.
Great game, fun mechanics, good story. Just not enough of it. We finished all of it within an hour or two of play.
Honestly our biggest complaint with the game is that theres not more content. We played through it twice and had a lot of fun with it but the Devs never finished some of their promised aspects and thats a bummer, we would like more of this.
But it has so much potential thats left unused. The story doesnt have options that affect game play, theres no way to leave a battle youre losing, the special abilities arent explained, etc… The major issues we have are How ship personnel are deployed, if we have extra crew why cant we assign them to patrol or serve as security outside of a room?
Since we supported this game on kick starter, there doesnt seem to be much added content since then. Theres still no bonus ships or new ships since the starter set. You can 100% the game in under 4 hours.
This is a simple space command simulator but all the missions are fighting a ship and the story is just jumbled up then theres not that much missions as well as the variation of crew styles/ ships are bad wouldnt recommend buying if you wanted a good space simulator.
UPDATE3: 4 years later Star Command to live on after iOS 11! But what happened to this game?? Had great promise but, it got abandoned :( … So much disappointment, and we were rooting for you! Would have rated to 2 stars but, thanks for the iOS 11 compatibility update… Le sigh… UPDATE2: Star Trek has released their official app! Your move, Star Command, please don’t let us down… UPDATE1: ******************************************* A lot of the 1star reviews have No idea about the game. They’re not making any sense. Are they reviewing This game? And for the record, FTL and StarCommand we’re both developed exactly around the same time.. ******************************************* The story is enjoyable. The gameplay is challenging. The music in the first few levels reminds us of Mass Effect =D Would recommend to the dev to allow us to use our own background music No in-app purchases? No complaints there!! Though we would buy more episodes! This was an insta-buy and easily a five star review. Can’t wait for further development and depth from The devs. The "coming soon" section seems like they’re planning on releasing more than "30%" of the game. Great jobs, devs! We hope you have a huge turn out!
The base game is truly very good, but has so little content that its actually sad, the devs never delivered on any of the promised features and updates. It is incomplete to say the least, it has the potential to become a true titan of mobile games since the base game is good. But the devs just cannot be bothered to work on it at all. Fun for a two (short) playthroughs but after youve played with both a small and large ship theres nothing new to see.
We have to say Im very disappointed here. Very simplistic, short, and lackluster. -1 star for bad UI and micromanagement -1 star for lack of variety and selection -1 star for the constant stale humor -2 stars for just lame gameplay +2 stars because at least it works and is pretty polished for $3, not worth it tho.
This game wound up being a money grab. STAY AWAY.
This is a glitchy slow terrible app How it got good reviews is a insane Honestly we want our money back.
Boring over simplified. Upgrades dont go far at all, nothing to unlock. Nothin to look forward to for grinding. There are far better more fleshed out games for free..
We really do appreciate all the updates fixing major bugs but there is one bug in particular that is a major problem. During battle, all our weapons and options are greatly shifted to the right of the screen. We know this because we can only see one weapon option thats usually on the bottom left of our screen. Help please! Thank you for all you guys do!
Im on our first battle in game and we cant even press the button to fire. First battle!!! We were honestly looking forward to playing this, but we guess we cant, Ill keep the app on our device, but until that is fixed, we cant use it!
When we first downloaded this game, we couldnt see our ships shield or health bar, and some quest choices broke our game. Those were fixed, but now, one of the most important part of the game, the combat, is broken. We cant see any of our abilities, they are all off screen. So basically the game is unplayable for us currently. Waste of money.
Unsure about the game. Seems good. We get stuck on the first encounter because our ship actions are halfway off the screen, all the way to the right, and we cant press them.
The buttons are off the screen on our iPhone 6+. Im unable to use the weapons or maneuvers in combat.
It keeps crashing when we try to negotiate with the first encounter of aliens at mercury, basically the first mission. Not sure why.
We love the game when it works. Sadly its not complete and after a few hours of play we hit a wall trying to get through a battle without a crash. Others worked on the second try but we gave up on this one after 4 reloads. Scared to invest more time considering.. Hope they dont give up either on this game or try building a fresh new one that works before release. The game introduces such an addictive system of play with incredible potential for new content. It would be a shame to die out, and we are aware of the developer and kickstarter history. We still hope they try.
Cant finish the tutorial. Crashes when we select to hail the antorian ship.
We love this game so much and we’re so glad it’s being updated to be compatible with IOS 11. Overall great starship game, maybe in the future we could see some more missions PLEASE and some new starships PLEASE AGAIN!
We’re eager to see what they have in store for us since the game has been in the shadows for years. We love this game and hope to see it grow…
It’s a good game but when we beat the human capital ship after the antorian battleship it doesn’t load and we can fire our weapons but we can’t move to another galaxy or planet.(this is the first battle in the third galaxy) we also think big rooms should be able to have 3 or 4 people.
Sorry, just not a fan of mission-based games. They feel less tactical and more puzzley in that you must figure out how you are supposed to win, then do that. Until then, Star Command…
Its an ok game at best. Very short, not particularly challenging. Its basically a worse version of FTL in every possible way. Not worth the $3 unless you are bored and need a game to occupy you for a few hours. Also, the last mission was bugged for us and impossible to complete.
Amazing an update! Has display issues on iPad4 running ios10. Buttons on menu are invisible and enemy ship status does not display. Pretty much unplayable now. ——– Updating – found a crash bug – when engineers try to deploy a sentry… Happens all the time. We’ve been a fan of this game from its early versions. There were some serious playability issues that needed to be taken care of and they’ve done it! If you are a Star Trek lover, you’ll enjoy this game! We can’t wait to see the additional content you guys have planned!
One of the worst game bugs. Last mission cannot be completed. Destroyed final ship, but game would not end. Waste of time.
After a 4 year hiatus, is this game finally being updated again?
As many people say in a review, It has potential. And we agree 100% it does have potential! It’s up to the makers to honor the good reviews and add content to make this a even better than it is game. We were a little bummed there are no Large ships. You can have your own layout of how you want the inside of the ship to look which is ok. We just really feel the makers should add content as fast as they can cause this game will be worth every cent if added more. Edit: Glad to see a return to the game!
A great space sim; this a good game with a lot of long term potential if the developers plan to expand it. Updated: What a surprise to see an update for SC. More love has been shown in the last month than the last three years. Love to see an content update. Thanks!
We played ever since it was out and we still do. We would rate higher but some missions are broken and crash after choosing some set of dialogue. It fun but you guys can do better.
Title says it all. Cannot play it because some needed things are off screen. If we can fix it somehow we’ll try. If you are planning on fixing it, that’s cool too. If not either of those we will need us money back please. Thank you….. PS…. This is seriously the last time we let reviews effect us. The only games we play are games we took a chance on by how it looked and was described. Wasted maybe 60$ over the last year based on what people find Amazing!!!!!!…. It’s never amazing, ever.
Like we play this game for 4 hours and then we got to the end strat up love the game then battling them we won then it wont let us leave the planet and our ship wont stop shooting so we have to not do the last level. Oh this is to person that made the game: FIX IT.