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Shortest Trip to Earth is a roguelike spaceship simulator focused on exploration, ship management and tactical battles. Embark on a perilous journey across the universe with nuclear missiles, armed crew and a cat.

Shortest Trip to Earth is a rogue-lite, space and strategy game developed by Interactive Fate and published by Interactive Fate and Iceberg Interactive.
Released on August 15th 2019 is available in English on Windows and Linux.

It has received 1,385 reviews of which 1,066 were positive and 319 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 25.13€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.14€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Shortest Trip to Earth into these genres:

Rogue-lite Space Strategy Survival Sci-fi Exploration Resource Management Difficult Action Roguelike Spaceships Rogue-like Choices Matter Simulation Tactical Adventure Aliens Singleplayer Replay Value Space Sim 2D

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Microsoft Windows 7, 8, 10 - 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD4400 or dedicated DX11 GPU (1280x720)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 600 MB available space

Linux

OS: Linux
Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD4400 or dedicated DX11 GPU (1280x720)
Storage: 600 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025

This game is well balanced and thought out. It's a rogue-light, so expect to die, but hey, you do get achievements for that as well so it aint for nothing :) Due to the different ships and new possibilities that unlock during play it has a high replayability. Currently on my first hardcore run, even though it becomes harder it doesn't feel impossible. Even though you will need to die a few times to fully understand the game and think of the right strategy to win (and you will need to adapt your strategy during playthrough), the game rewards starting over enough that it does not get boring. And sometimes you just have bad luck and die in a stupid way. You can either be frustrated by it or accept that that comes with the randomness of new playthroughs that keep it interesting. In my opinion well worth its money!

Jan. 2025

This is a great game in its own right. Don't be fooled into thinking this is simply a FTL clone, its far bigger and better than that with its own unique twist on resource management. This game is better with the DLC as it brings much more variation to the adventure. You won't regret buying this but be patient as its hard and has a big learning curve. Enjoy!

Sept. 2024

This is really fun game if you like FTL type of games, I like this game more since it allows you to modify the ship by upgrading the hard points either by replacing the module with a different or better one. Or by updating the hard point to support more equipment types including HP increases you will go to each star solar system to scavenge for resources where there are risks involved. the runs are quite custamizable by using your meta progression points to select what you want to bring on your run. change ship or difficulty level and what system you want to start the game (unlocks once you completed it before)

July 2024

It is fun and I like the unlocks. I would love to see a quest system setup that asks you to fly around, maybe offer fuel as part of the reward to off set the amount of fuel you would need to use. Anyway, it is fun and tough game. Very rogue-like in that sense.

April 2024

I agree with the other reviews that it is a good game. I will give 9/10. And it is a bit addicting. That said, like other people say it's a more complicated FTL game. A bit more punishing in my opinion. The most nonsensical thing about it is that you have to swap all your "modules" (weapons, food growing laboratories, power generators, etc.) out everytime you want to move around or want to fight. It has "presets" that you can set to swap them out, but you have to constantly update even the presets every upgrade you get. Further, it takes time to swap from one preset configuration of your internal modules to another internal preset. If you don't swap modules all the time then you will be out of resources and/or caught off guard by enemies and killed, so you basically have to do it.

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