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About Naev
Naev is a game about space exploration, trade and combat. Players travel the galaxy and earn money by trading, fighting and performing missions.
Main features:
Currently Naev is a playable game, but it is far from being a complete one. To further mature the game, we, the developers, need you. Yes, you. All it takes is the motivation to be creative in some way! Probably the easiest way to help, as well as one of the most valuable ones, is by coming up with new stories for the game, and by shaping those stories into playable missions. Other ways to help include making art or sounds, improving gameplay via balancing work, or (if you have the ability) even a bit of coding on the main program.
A few things to keep in mind:
Main features:
- A large galaxy with hundreds of planets and moons to explore.
- Real-time, semi-Newtonian gameplay reminiscent of the Escape Velocity games.
- Many different ships to buy and pilot, and many ways to customize each of them.
- Multiple factions, each with unique ship designs and personalities.
- Open-source, meaning ultimate freedom of modding.
Currently Naev is a playable game, but it is far from being a complete one. To further mature the game, we, the developers, need you. Yes, you. All it takes is the motivation to be creative in some way! Probably the easiest way to help, as well as one of the most valuable ones, is by coming up with new stories for the game, and by shaping those stories into playable missions. Other ways to help include making art or sounds, improving gameplay via balancing work, or (if you have the ability) even a bit of coding on the main program.
A few things to keep in mind:
- This game is a hobby project, not an indie development project. There is no final plan, no time frame for the "finished game".
- The dev team does not accept monetary donations, only direct contributions to the game itself.
- The game engine is written in C. Missions are written in Lua.
- No, there is no multiplayer, and there probably won't be. Unless you add it!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
better than endless sky. great escape velocity clone
W story
Okay. i know I might have 30 minutes in this game but that's closer to 2 because i was debating if i even wanted to play this game because within the first ten seconds i found a game breaking bug. Starting a new run, if you try to rename the ship ai after putting something in, it just softlocks. Within the first MAYBE 20 seconds of the game, you can get softlocked. If that's the kind of polish this game has, I don't want to put time into it. If this is some rare bug that only I'm getting, maybe that will change, but it was extremely offputting finding a softlock like that instantly. Additionally, but not as bad, is that when the game launches it opens bigger than my screen and i have to manually re-size it. Not a big deal, but combined with the above it just feels so unpolished and thrown together. I know the rest of the game is likely much better, but this just really threw me off.
This a great stragey game, start off slow, work up from there. It is just like "Endless Sky" but a more modernized version. Linux games have come a long way since to beginning, but if you want a space adventure game, where trading, travel, mining and combat are all combined. Heres a classic!
This is a cool space exploring/fighting/trading which somewhat reminds me of the earlier Elite games. Lots of different ships, equipment and quests. I do find the fighter bay system and weapon assignment a bit confusing still so some tutorial videos would be nice. I'm surprised it doesn't have a bigger following and more active community. On a personal note, I would like some sort of difficulty system because I am just really bad at anything that requires quick reflexes making fighter and disabling missions really hard. I'll probably give in and cheat eventually.
As of this review (JAN 2026), the game is still being actively developed. A few bugs and improvements needed but hey it's great so far and it's free currently. Keen to see what happens when it eventually hits 1.0 as I love this style of game, and some tweaks and extra content would really help make this a banger.
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