Shortest Trip to Earth
Interactive Fate · 2019 · Roguelite, Space, Strategy, Survival, Sci-fi
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About Shortest Trip to Earth
Navigate a procedurally generated universe filled with alien threats and survival challenges in this roguelike spaceship simulator where you'll manage your crew, customize your vessel with hundreds of modules, and engage in tactical real-time combat. Shape your journey through hundreds of branching story events while mastering ship combat and resource management across multiple runs with permadeath stakes.
Community Translations available in German, Russian, Simplified Chinese and more
Onboard combat against hostile intruders is a messy businessExplore a detailed and deadly universe
Embark on a perilous journey through a procedurally generated universe and explore massive space sectors crawling with exotic lifeforms. Engage in action-packed tactical combat against hostile ships, boarding parties and inter-dimensional space monsters.
Each ship comes with its own strengths and weaknessesMaster the art of survival by customising your ship with modular components and perks. Choose from a range of spaceships and manage life within your vessel - from crew, pets and drones to ship modules and weapons. Shape your journey through hundreds of multiple-choice events, featuring unique hand-drawn illustrations.
A selection of crew types
Shortest Trip to Earth features unforgiving permadeath, but you can unlock perks to increase the odds of survival on your next run.
Key Features
- Master the art of survival in unexplored space!
- Explore a procedurally generated universe, packed with content
- Collect resources, craft modules & upgrade your ship
- Epic real-time tactical space battles
- Onboard combat, featuring hostile intruders, drones and battle-hardened pets
- 500+ ship modules, a variety of ship weapons and nukes
- 30+ unique crew weapons
- 50+ types of crew, drones & combat pets
- Hundreds of random events with unique illustrations and outcomes
- Every ship starts with a cat
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 3 of 3 DLC at today's best prices.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The game is incredibly micro heavy to play. Point defense attacks on a first-come-first-serve system, so you need to pause every second and reprioritize targets on incoming projectiles. You want to switch between load outs before combat so your shields are fully charged. You need to scan every enemy ship for weapons which can destroy your modules so you can focus them. After crewmates die you have to juggle your entire crew, and after a module dies you have to reformat one, perhaps two loadouts. The harder difficulties are insane, Challenging meaning that any shot that gets through your idiotic point defense because it could half the health of modules which could already be one-shot. The best you can do is hope for RNG that this shot won't be the one that ruins your only good weapon. Hardcore takes away your pause and halves your ship's HP. I've never beaten them, and frankly I don't want to try. Don't get me wrong, the core premise is fun, it's just the mechanics and interface that make it grind. Every time I come back I do a run, maybe two, then wonder why I'm fighting the game instead of playing FTL again. AND NOVEMBER 21th 2025 UPDATE HAS UTTERLY DEMOLISHED ME WITH BOA…5 found this helpful
I keep wanting to like this game. I keep installing it hoping this time I'll enjoy it. It's just not fun to play. The concept is great, but the UI and UX are so tragically bad that it leeches all of the fun out of it. And now the devs seem to have gone AWOL despite a message saying they were going to stay around and work on it.1 found this helpful
seems like fun but enemies boarding your ship is an automatically game over. doesnt seem like it will be fixed soon1 found this helpful
it good, basicly better FTL.
Great game!
I like it for the simple yet, creative design. It's very easy to play and move through the levels. Keeps you interested. I've been playing it for awhile now. Still going....
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