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Down with the Ship

Iron Anchor Games, Proxy Studios

Strategic auto battler where you design a heavily-armed spaceship. Draft 200+ items, outfit your hull, and unleash it in async PvP. Blend captains and factions for absurd combos and galactic domination. Roll, buy, place, pray.

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About This Game

Down with the Ship is a strategic auto‑battler about assembling your own hull, stuffing it with powerful hardware, and sending it to war against other players.

Build Your Ship

Connect hull pieces to expand your ship and make room for modules. Each round offers a new set of parts: guns, reactors, shields, cursed relics, and more. Buy what fits, lock what you need, and learn when a cheap common beats a flashy rare.

Optimize the Design

Positioning is the core of the game. Move parts around to manage resources, connect item effects, and stack bonuses. Build something reliable, or commit to one risky combo and hope it fires first.

Take It to Battle

Battles play out automatically, but you decide when your ship is ready to fight. Your current build is matched against stored ships from other players. Win, adapt, and keep going until your run breaks apart.

Choose a Captain

Each captain changes how you play, with different hull shapes, passives, and build paths. Lean into their faction’s tools, or mix in parts from other factions to make something less predictable.

Game Modes

  • Ranked Versus: Face player-made ships and push for 10 wins before your lives are spent. Climb the leaderboard with every successful run.

  • Casual Versus: Test builds against player-made ships without worrying about rank.

  • Endless Run: Hit 10 wins? Keep going until your ship loses 5 lives.

Community Activity

  1. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.95.14

    Fixed a crash when opening the Codex. Fixed Access Cards failing to add their guaranteed doors when other shop slots were frozen. Sewer Mutant conversions no longer trigger…

  2. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.95.10

    Restored the previous ranked rating formula to address excessive rating gains at high ranks. Fixed an issue with the tutorial getting stuck. Added a way to reset the tutorial…

  3. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.95.09

    Added cosmetic ship classes and specialties based on installed equipment. Added a Sort Cargo button to Advanced Editing. Click again to reverse the order. Added an option to move…

  4. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.95.08

    Fixed completed Daily Challenge runs missing from Run History. Improved Daily Challenge leaderboard loading and made completion times easier to read. Fixed co-op battle-start…

  5. Down with the ShipSteam announcement

    Season 5 has begun!

    Features Added a new game mode: Daily Challenge. Play a daily fixed-seed run that earns rewards. Significantly improved performance throughout the game. Removed the account…

  6. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.94.03

    Features Added a button to review your latest end-of-season summary from the Versus stats menu. Added customizable keyboard controls with primary and secondary bindings, conflict…

  7. Down with the ShipSteam patch notes

    Patch 0.94.02

    Balance adjustments Splitter Rounds cooldown penalty reduced from 1s -> 0.5s. Flame Tosser cooldown decreased from 8.25 -> 7.5s. Giga-Drill cooldown decreased from 6.75 -> 5.25.…

  8. Down with the ShipSteam announcement

    Season 4: Balancing act

    Features Added a new 20 win ranked mode. When you get to 10 wins, you have the option to go for 20 wins, gaining or losing rating based on how you perform within that new window.…

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