Endless Sky

Endless Sky

Michael Zahniser · October 30, 2015 · Space, Free to Play, Open World, Sci-fi, Singleplayer

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About Endless Sky

✦ AI summary

Build your space empire from a humble shuttle to a powerful flagship across hundreds of systems, earning credits through trading, combat, mining, and exploration in this sprawling 2D sandbox inspired by Escape Velocity. Choose your own path through multiple story lines totaling over a hundred hours of content, or forge your own adventure—all in a free, open-source game continuously expanded by its passionate community.

Endless Sky is a 2D space trading and combat game inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. Work your way up from a relatively wimpy shuttle, cargo ship, or fighter, to a highly upgraded and customized flagship or to a massive fleet of warships or freighters.

Endless Sky — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Oct 1, 2026
Its free why not?
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
nice game
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
Call me crazy but I think this game would benefit greatly by implementing some AI generated content. Not over-using it, but filling in some gaps mainly in the audio design; which is sparse, repetitive, and lackluster. I think Endless Sky has some great foundations, it's engaging and pretty fun.
Not recommended Sep 30, 2026
Okay, here's the deal. This game was so fun until 15 hours, you know why? Because If you want to play the story (the one im referring is "Free Worlds" which as I understand it's the main story) It looks so exciting first, then you realize what are you actually doing is just jumping from start to star, then read some text. Okay I see, this is 2D open source game, but why the f**k every progression I need to escort 10 stupidly slow ships? The moment I uninstalled this game was this: I go to next quest point, and something important is happening in the story, and the commander i'm listening is telling me "Take this 10 slow ships and fly over 5 different pirate sections". The problem is this: If I need better fleet, why you don't make me do it? I mean it's extremely easy to grind money in this game, you just destroy expensive ships, steal and sell them, or just add them to your fleet (which is kinda boring to grind money since what you do is repetitive after 15 minutes). Why you give me absurdly 10 slow small ships and make me wait 20 second before every jump so these slow ships can align themselves. And another problem is you have to wait for these ships, you can't finish the quest wi…
Recommended Sep 30, 2026
I have genuinely had more fun with this game than nearly everything that recently released, and it's under a gigabyte of filesize!
Recommended Sep 29, 2026
It reminds me of Cross Country Canada in space, with pirates. 10/10.

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