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Airships: Conquer the Skies
Developer David Stark
Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies! From the Steam store page
218 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
93
LovedLoved
171 positive · 13 negative
95% range 88–96%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 171 | 13 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 22 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Overwhelmingly Positive
4,998 of 5,176 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
93% recommend · 168 yes, 12 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 180 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Overwhelmingly Positive (6,363 of 6,633 positive).
Players praise the game's creative freedom in designing airships and land vehicles. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize the simplistic campaign and poor AI. [4][5][6]
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- [4]
It's really awesome to build your own ship and see it fight. However, the campaign is mechanically extremely simplistic, like a board game, and AI is stupid. Furthermore, late game battles devolve (evolve?) into stacking massive fleets against each other which makes micro management painful and not fun at all. The worst thing is that playing at 2k resolution I can never zoom enough to actually see what the crew in …
- [11]
Airships: Conquer the Skies is a fantastic game, it might not look like much from the previews on the store page, but this is an absolute gem of a game. What do you do in Airships? First off there are 3 main game modes, Conquest, Combat, and Mission: -Conquest is the campaign mode of the game (singleplayer and multiplayer), where you manage cities settlements by buying upgrades, constructing buildings, and defending …
- [2]
75 hours in, and I've gotten more joy out of this game than most others I've played in recent years. It's rare I put so much time in a title, I've got a bad habit of playing 5 hours in a game and moving on to the next shiny thing, but this one made me stick. The unique fantasy / steampunk / napoleonic setting is really appealing, and the amount of creative freedom is insane. If you can think it, you can logically …
- [3]
Great game. You get to build and design your own airships, land vehicles, and defensive structures. That process alone is fun, but then you get to use them in a strategy game where you conquer the map through whichever means you see fit—war, diplomacy, esoteric rituals or other win conditions. The battles are a lot of fun, and you can even take manual control of vessels for precision maneuvers. The developer has put …
- [1]
DO YOU LIKE AIRSHIPS, LANDSHIPS, OR FORTS!? get this game and MAKE MORE. (beware purchase of this game may cause minor to major addiction to suspendium products)
Summarised from 34 of the 209 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Airships: Conquer the Skies talk about highly creative ship and fort building; those who didn't talk about campaign is mechanically simplistic. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 218 · most liked firstDid you know? If you befriend me, I might suck you off! Or hump you hard! ... But more importantly, I'll make you play the niche strategy game, Airships: Conquer the Skies!
positive · AI labelView post →Airships: Murder on the Sky Express is a game I'm working on. You are the concierge of the world's unluckiest hotel. Assign the right rooms to guests like axe murderers, mad scientists, spies, and cultists to keep them from killing each other. 🛌🗡️ zarkonnen.com/airships/mur...
neutral · AI labelView post →Steampunk bullet heaven auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla releases January 23 #IndieGames #Linux #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →DO YOU LIKE AIRSHIPS, LANDSHIPS, OR FORTS!? get this game and MAKE MORE. (beware purchase of this game may cause minor to major addiction to suspendium products)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you consider floating islands to be an aspect of steampunk?. Airships are often just fantasy equivalents of sea-faring ships so it makes sense for there to be fantasy equivalents of the islands those sea-faring ships can visit. Basically, I see floating islands as a logical consequence of airships. But are floating islands also uniquely steampunk? I know airships aren't required to be steam-powered to visit floating islands, but the presence of floating islands always makes me think of…
neutral · AI labelView post →#Sometober time, and it's Day 11. My favorite video game enemy from the Mario games would be Rocky Wrench, a mole with a manhole cover on his head who appears on Airships and Tanks as they throw their wrenches. And as for my pic, don't let the big ol' chonky mole get in your way!
neutral · AI labelView post →Airships: Conquer the Skies is a fantastic game, it might not look like much from the previews on the store page, but this is an absolute gem of a game. What do you do in Airships? First off there are 3 main game modes, Conquest, Combat, and Mission: -Conquest is the campaign mode of the game (singleplayer and multiplayer), where you manage cities settlements by buying upgrades, constructing buildings, and defending them with you air/land fleets. The management elements are not to in-depth,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This week in #steampunk: New author pages; Abney Park streaming concert; New video game “Airships: Lost Flotilla”; NJ festival announces music lineup and vendor openings; Weekend events; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
neutral · AI labelView post →Airships: Lost Flotilla is a perfect time-killer where you can make some ridiculous ships #AirshipsLostFlotilla #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming #SteamDeck
positive · AI labelView post →I cannot recommend this game enough. Absolutely love the world building and its and bits of lore here and there. It's fun to play with friends. It's fun to play alone. Designing ships and buildings for use as well as looks elevates the experience imo. The things you can do here man, incredible. The DLC adds A LOT. It's totally worth it. Still not sure I've seen or played with every hero there is. It might not look it but I PROMISE the game is beautiful visually. Excited to see what else…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of my favourite things about doing Strategy Game News is watching my partner buy and play games that I've covered 😅 This morning's entertainment is watching him play Airships: Lost Flotilla and just descend into absolute chaos 💥
neutral · AI labelView post →Looking to play a simplified take on a classic strategy game? Play Airships: Lost Flotilla instead of Civ 7: $5 ↔️ $70 Very Positive ↔️ Mostly Negative Brother Zinn, a mysterious monk who gets better with every martini he ingests ↔️ Mangy Ben Franklin store.steampowered.com/app/2858150/...
positive · AI labelView post →Hi #PitchYaGame 👋 We are one of only two game publishers in Switzerland🫕🍫 AUTARKIS: Build colonies and portals. Protect your settlers from catastrophes.🚀 Of Life & Land: A charming settlement-building strategy game with a deep nature simulation🦊 Airships: Lost Flotilla: A steampunk autoshooter🛩️
neutral · AI labelView post →Excellent game, lots of good mods and lots of simple fun. I've only spent a few hours on it but I've enjoyed it greatly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's really awesome to build your own ship and see it fight. However, the campaign is mechanically extremely simplistic, like a board game, and AI is stupid. Furthermore, late game battles devolve (evolve?) into stacking massive fleets against each other which makes micro management painful and not fun at all. The worst thing is that playing at 2k resolution I can never zoom enough to actually see what the crew in each individual ship is doing, and the stats are rather limited too (it tells…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dev said he wanted more user reviews for his game so here goes, build ship, realize design looks cool but has fatal flaws, lose entire fleet in attack, rebuild, repeat, conquer the skies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd love to like this game. I've been checking back every few months for years, but nothing changes. Updates are minimal — a new weapon here and there, things that could be implemented in days. (I'm a game developer myself, so I can say this confidently.) The spawning system is extremely unfair. Random enemies spawn in your home territory that are impossible to beat early on, forcing you to restart repeatedly. Even late-game with advanced tech, things like land anemones or mad scientists can…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not that the game is terrible, just insanely overrated. It's one of the highest rated games on steam but is incredibly janky, ships struggle to follow orders and all pilot like everyone on board the crew is drunk. Just moving in a straight line is a genuinely difficult task for the AI, if there is any potential obstacle they will collide with it even without having taking damage first. Most of the time you will need to move your ships diagonally but for some reason the AI will prioritise…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A generic fantasy world is fine for a campaign, but there are always ways to improve it. Add new elements or mechanics! Airships! Dimensional portals! The sky's the limit on the amount of wacky off-the-wall stuff you could include in your game. #D&D #TTRPG
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like games such as Metal Gear Solid and Kirby then you should play this. There's absolutely no connection to those games, but it's good so you should play it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Red Winter Airships (based on a favorite childhood game) #bluearchive #blender
neutral · AI labelView post →The fact this game was released in 2018 and has only been improving ever since really speaks to the developers commitment to this game. It's nearly 10 years later and this game is STILL getting updates. This thumbs up is for the commitment alone, but this game is definitely worth it if you love building ships and blowing them up into pieces.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not my first thought. I would think that would be solarpunk maybe? Or maybe no -punk would have such direct access to the sky. Airships yeah, but floating islands are too idyllic for steampunk IMO. But I’m not gonna be a gatekeeper over it. Nor am I any kind of authority on steampunk. If the rest of the world fits, they can have a place.
neutral · AI labelView post →just played it nonstop for 10 hours after getting it. its really, really, good
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⭐Title: Airships: Lost Flotilla by @metaroot.bsky.social Auto-shooter may not impress you with its art or animations, but the gameplay is still enjoyable due to useful weapons 👍My Review: steamcommunity.com/id/sosich24/... #indiegames #indiegaming #indiedev #review #indiedev
positive · AI labelView post →My best-known game project is Airships: Conquer the Skies, a steampunk strategy game about building airships and blowing stuff up: store.steampowered.com/app/342560/A... #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game. Build ship, create abomination, send it out and watch it explode. Dev is still pushing out updates somehow. Legend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Airships: Conquer the Skies is a remarkably creative steampunk strategy game that combines engineering, tactical warfare, empire management, and sandbox experimentation into an experience unlike almost anything else in the genre. At its heart, the game is about designing enormous flying war machines and testing them against enemy fleets, fortified cities, giant monsters, and rival empires across sprawling battlefields. While its visual presentation may initially appear simple, the incredible…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →75 hours in, and I've gotten more joy out of this game than most others I've played in recent years. It's rare I put so much time in a title, I've got a bad habit of playing 5 hours in a game and moving on to the next shiny thing, but this one made me stick. The unique fantasy / steampunk / napoleonic setting is really appealing, and the amount of creative freedom is insane. If you can think it, you can logically design any air or land ship the way you envision it. The conquest mode is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wrote a dev blog post about a long-running bug in Airships: Conquer the Skies where the AI would build outdated ships. May be of interest => zarkonnen.com/airships/out...
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game. You get to build and design your own airships, land vehicles, and defensive structures. That process alone is fun, but then you get to use them in a strategy game where you conquer the map through whichever means you see fit—war, diplomacy, esoteric rituals or other win conditions. The battles are a lot of fun, and you can even take manual control of vessels for precision maneuvers. The developer has put a lot of work into the game and continues to update it with new features and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of my all time favorite games, great gameplay, great atmosphere, the music is amazing, the musician worked on halo infinite. the dev is very active in his discord actualy took time out of his day to help me when i made a mod and it wasn't working he both showed me where i went wrong and suggested a website to find future errors in my json. if you start out i recommend after playing the tutorial go straight into conquest mode, it has additional hints once ingame like telling you "you could…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really good game, kind of like Highfleet merged with HoI4, it has diplomacy and research, very neat and interesting game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun game with a lot of replay ability that is only hampered by the limited nature of its skirmish mode
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Games which blend challenging engineering with 4x strategy are extremely rare, especially fun ones. This game is exactly that
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First up is my favorite game I’ve never played: Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies. OMG! This game is so entirely my shit. High fantasy. Airships. Sword duels. Magic. A system where WHO your character is defines what they can do mechanically. I would love to play a campaign. evilhat.com/product/s7s/
neutral · AI labelView post →If you like Forts you'll like this game because its like forts but WAY better. Like way better than forts. Like forts PAILS in comparison. You would have be incredibly delusional to think that Forts is ANYWHERE near the level of this game. I bet that you must only think that because you got so utterly destroyed in this game that you were coping with your humiliating loss by tricking yourself into thinking that Forts is anything like this god of a game. Very under appreciated and good. You know…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey y’all! Thank you @jamieragwort.bsky.social for the invite! I’m hard at work on games, currently my steampunk game: Airships and Automatons is on kickstarter :-)
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun, easy to build something functional. Hard to build something good!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mentally ill community
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy the little dude running around and working the ship its pretty cool
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Experimental Airships are like Experimental Firearms: They're very interesting when you can watch someone else demonstrate them, at a safe distance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Awesome Game, Good UI, fun gameplay and good replayability would still recommend to buy it on sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another hidden gem, you got fully customizable airships and landships, workshop mods and functional multiplayer, what else you need.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Airships: Lost Flotilla is a prequel to my previous game, Airships: Conquer the Skies. It's set in the time immediately after the collapse of the old empire, whereas in Conquer the Skies it's 20 years later and you're trying to re-unify.
neutral · AI labelView post →Played Airships and Sushi Roll today, lost the first and won the second. Brought Tactics II along to take a few pics of it setup but ran out of time. Yokohama was more game than I wanted to spend time on today, plus I recall it being a better game with 3-4 players, though it will play with just two.
neutral · AI labelView post →I do really enjoy this game but I don't feel I can recommend the game at its current price, Ideally you should get it on sale. Why do I feel this way? Firstly, the ship design can feel quite limiting at times with placement of certain modules/weapons. Say for instance I wish to use external engine pods on my ship, I am hard limited to two, one on the top and bottom of the ship, as you need infinite clearance on the X axis for the engine, meaning you can't have any in series which makes little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This process of designing ships is a black box that lacks all transparency or player training tools. You assemble ships out of a pile of voxels that influence a laundry list of performance variables, but aren't provided any information about why ships perform well or poorly. I kept getting completely trounced by the pre-made designs. Was the ship not fast enough? Not well-armored enough? Not accurate enough? Impossible to tell. The only feedback you get is that you're on fire and they aren't.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i remember playing this game for hours on a outdated pirated version because i was too young to get a job, it was the only game i could play on my even more outdated school laptop without burning it's dying cpu. it is a glorious game. it's even more glorious now that i have the full updated version and can install mods and play on multiplayer. i also have a far superior laptop so i can no longer worry that having more than 10 ships will drop the fps to a power point presentation. underrated…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Joo Dee is a quirky card, but has a fun home in this Standard Golgari Airships deck. This deck had some decent game against everything on the MTG Arena ladder. youtu.be/NpLUXbT6O98
neutral · AI labelView post →This game -Has robust customization for every ship and building. -Receives regular updates. -Is constantly improving (impressive for a game that released in 2018) -Has tons of mods to help you get even more mileage. My only minor complaint would be UI issues when playing on full screen. Easy enough to work around but it is worth noting. I highly recommend it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No other game like it on the market. Indie Dev, very detailed mechanics and systems and a great art style to boot. Highly recommend, its worth the price tag.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing game! In Airships, strategy games like Crusader Kings and ship designers like Cosmoteer get united for an even more perfekt amalgamation!!! The artstyle is certainly unique, but you'll love it! Nerf Guardian Sprites lol (nvm its done, now gargoyles?) Also let me build on floating islands :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Delightful and charming steampunk airships game. I've been playing since some of the earliest days of early access, and it's always been a remarkably solid experience, managing to blend simple-yet-effective overworld strategy with real-time ship combat that features a surprising amount of nuance and depth. If you ever played Guns of Icarus (RIP) and wanted to board enemy ships, design your own, or both, well... you still can't really do that first one in this game, but you can order crew…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All good yo, no biggie. Hope your weekend is better than your week! I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write this review, it's rather helpful. Re: Airships. Oh fuck you're right, I completely forgot about that. I'm not even sure the premise of the initiation drop-in works with the airships they have, unless like, they're getting booted out or something. I'll have to sit on that, either do some retconning (i.e rewrites), or make it a plot point later. Re: Tense is my weakest…
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is great! It's got a simplistic vehicle building system with grand strategy elements, which is a nice combo. It's also very very easy to mod.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the restrictions on the size of my vehicle/craft are really annoying and dont make any sense i call this bad game design
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You literally get to build your own units to use in whatever way you see fit to take / defend territory. The management system is minimal, and politics / faction / world building isn't really deep enough to dive into, but what's here is great. Has the potential to be a real stand out title. I look forward to seeing what the developer does in the future.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Draws you in with designing airships, land vehicles and defenses, then crushes your dreams with monsters beyond your imagination. Id buy it again though.
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