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Dust Fleet

Assume command of a battle fleet and deploy immediately to the Dust Zone, commander. Our main food supply station has gone dark and the United Earth Nations (UEN) needs to know why in this 4X RTS space sim. Manage your ships, control space stations, and watch your back.

Released Aug 23, 2023Mostly Positive · 76% of 198PEGI 12
Steam Deck PlayableIndieStrategySci-fiSpaceReal Time Tactics4X
Dust Fleet
Dust Fleet
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Dust Fleet
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Dust Fleet

It's the 24th century and the colonization of space is not going well. Hyperspace opened the door to the stars, but habitable worlds are few and far in between, overpopulation is still rampant, and our civilization's appetite for resources has only increased. For over a hundred years, the incredibly rich Dust Zone sated this endless appetite, jointly controlled by the United Earth Nations and the Zone Mining Cooperative. But humanity’s fighting chance only lasted for a short hundred years.

Now, it has gone dark. Freighters stopped arriving with supply hauls and humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis. It's up to the commander of UEN's finest fleet, to deploy into the Dust Zone, investigate, and solve the supply chain crisis before it spirals out of control. It's time to demonstrate strategic aptitude in a turn-based management mode. Then, head to the front lines and channel your inner commander in intense, real-time space battles.

Dust Fleet

  • Command an entire space fleet and survive in the most hostile environment known to man. Secure strategic nodes, harvest the Dust Zone's resources, and expand the fleet to confront the threat to humanity's survival.

  • Customize each individual ship using a detailed designer. Upgrade every vessel with newly researched hulls, modules, and of course, weapons. Every upgrade matters, not just on the ships themselves.

  • Complete side missions to unlock additional fleet stations and strategic options. These can provide one-of-a-kind bonuses in battles, from extra build queues to support powers - potentially turning the tide of the battle at hand or even the entire war.

Dust Fleet

  • Take command of a custom fleet in intense 4x real-time tactical battles, maneuvering them in a fully 3D combat space.

  • Employ complex, tactical maneuvers to gain the upper hand and defeat superior foes through cunning and strategic brilliance.

  • Summon reinforcements and support powers from adjacent sectors to influence the direction of the battle.

Dust Fleet

  • Never give up and keep the fight going in the Sector Assault mode to generate a fully randomized starmap, side missions, and enemies, for fresh challenges each time.

  • Use the robust campaign editor and mod.io integration to create and easily share new campaigns with fellow players and craft personalized challenges!

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It's the 24th century and the colonization of space is not going well. Hyperspace opened the door to the stars, but habitable worlds are few and far in between, overpopulation is still rampant, and our civilization's appetite for resources has only increased. For over a hundred years, the incredibly rich Dust Zone sated this endless appetite, jointly controlled by the United Earth Nations and the Zone Mining Cooperative. But humanity’s fighting chance only lasted for a short hundred years. Now, it has gone dark. Freighters stopped arriving with supply hauls and humanity is facing an unprecedented crisis. It's up to the commander of UEN's finest fleet, to deploy into the Dust Zone, investigate, and solve the supply chain crisis before it spirals out of control. It's time to demonstrate strategic aptitude in a turn-based management mode. Then, head to the front lines and channel your inner commander in intense, real-time space battles.

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Game details

Developers
Orbiting Disco
Publishers
indie.io
Release date
Aug 23, 2023
Genres
Indie, Strategy, Sci-fi, Space, Real Time Tactics, 4X, Tactical, Simulation, Real-Time, Space Sim, 3D, Wargame, Base Building, Third Person, Military, RTS, Combat, Singleplayer, PvE, Turn-Based Combat
Modes
Single-player
Steam features
41 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Themes
Science fiction, 4X
Camera
Third person
Engine
Unity

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows XP SP2+
  • Processor: Intel i5
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB, DirectX9
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Recommended

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: Windows 7/8.1/10
  • Processor: Intel i5
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 2GB, DirectX11
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 4 GB available space

Ratings

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Mostly Positive

76% of 198

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Age rating

PEGI 12

Violence, Bad Language

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Playable

  • Shows button icons from other controllers
  • Some text is small and hard to read
  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Playable
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