Space Run

Space Run is a «real-time spaceship construction strategy game». Space Run takes the well-known Tower Defense-style gameplay and twists it, challenging you to manage and protect a spaceship and its cargo against the hazards of deep space!

Space Run is a tower defense, strategy and space game developed by Passtech Games and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on June 13th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Korean.

It has received 2,066 reviews of which 1,770 were positive and 296 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 0.74€ on Steam and has a 85% discount.

The Steam community has classified Space Run into these genres:

Tower Defense Strategy Space Indie Sci-fi Adventure Singleplayer Action Real-Time Spaceships

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

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

Windows

OS *: WINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB 100% OPENGL 2.1 COMPATIBLE NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600/ATI RADEON HD 2600/INTEL HD 2000
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: FMOD COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.7.5 or later
Processor: INTEL CORE 2 DUO 2.4 GHZ
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB 100% OPENGL 2.1 COMPATIBLE INTEL HD 3000 OR HIGHER
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: FMOD COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.04/SteamOS
Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB 100% OPENGL 2.1 COMPATIBLE NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600/ATI RADEON HD 2600/INTEL HD 2000
Storage: 1 GB available space
Sound Card: FMOD COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Nov. 2024

For $5 this is a pretty darn good game. Story is ok, graphics are smooth and polished reasonably and its stable. Lots of frantic clicking on things later in the game makes you think fast.

Sept. 2024

Oh;! come one this is a great game with great voice acting Sober 7/10 High 8/10 dRuNk 3/10 ummmmm whaaaat

July 2024

A blast from the past from the era of good tower defense games. Space Run is 10 years old by now but it still holds up fairly well, both in gameplay and visual presentation. In Space Run you play as Buck Mann, a space pilot that ships cargo to various space stations for his clients. Your job is to make sure that the cargo gets to its destination safe and fast. On your way you have to deal with asteroids and pirates. This game features very unique gameplay. Instead of enemies moving through a maze, here they just come in from various directions and target your ship directly. Your ship is made up of many hexagon tiles and each one has it's own HP which means it can be destroyed. You can place new modules on any tile, this costs some hexnuts (the currency of this game) and takes some time to build but is necessary to deal with the threats. There are a multitude of different modules, ranging from lasers and rockets to shoot down enemies to shields, which protect your ship and various utility modules like engines and energy generators. These modules can still be destroyed but they have more HP than the hexagon tile underneath. All the modules need to be placed in specific ways to work, which turns the entire gameplay in a sort of inventory puzzle in which you have to figure out the best way to slot all your modules to get through a level. This goes for cargo too which has to be placed directly on your ship before you start a level. As you progress through the game, you get reputation and credits. Reputation unlocks new modules for you to buy which you can spend your credits on. All modules also have three different upgrades, tha you can purchase, these usually unlock new active or passive abilities. For an example, you can unlock the ability to rotate laser turrets, even after placement and later you can make it fire extremely fast for a short duration These upgrades are important to win the arms race with the pirates, which get stronger over the course of the game. Most enemies are designed in the same way as you are, ships with multiple hexagon tiles and modules that you can shoot down. Each tile gives you money for destroying them. You can even find civil ships, which you can and should shoot down for extra income. Alternativly you can deactivate your engines for a short income in hexnuts but this will cost you time. And time is important here, your clients expect you to be fast, each extra engine on your ship will boost your travel speed and only this way you can achieve five stars for your performance. Extra stars multiply the credits you get and getting them for the first time also gives you reputation. You can repeat older levels for extra money if you are stuck in a level, which is helpful if you lack a necessary upgrade yet. The game pace is however very fast and hectic, especially once multiple waves come in at the same time. Since there are so many active abilities that you need to time right, it's easy to lose your head and losing a single module can result in a failure snowball in which you lose one module after another because you now have a hole in your defenses. This can be frustrating but the levels are usually very short (5-10 minutes at max), so it's never too bad. The game could use some elements for convenience like a pause function that let's you still give orders, so you have more time to buy multiple modules at once or activate your abilities. The game could also use something like a sandbox to test out new modules before starting a level to understand if they are worth getting them. But that being said, the game is super fun to play even if it's one of the harder TD games I've played. I love the gameplay and how intuitive the controls are and I love the banter and quips that you get from Buck and his android sidekick. It gives the game much more character.

June 2024

I can always memorize the incoming direction of hostile to optimize slot-arrangement in next run, made it less dull to play repeatively.

May 2024

Fun little game that has a twist on tower defence. Fairly easy to get all the achievements within 20-25 hours. i'd say worth full pop, so its a steal of deal on sale. I would put this on my buy list if you're into tower defence games.

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