Airships: Conquer the Skies

Has great potential but the state of the current game (mostly AI) prevents it from reaching that. Would recommend if it was in early access but seeing as this is the finished state I cannot recommend.

Super fun game to play, especially with friends!

Very in depth mechanics. Good for singleplayer, can be hilarious in multi

id recommend watching some videos on the game beforehand, much more fun after understanding the system

It's a very simple but enjoyable blend of building and designing and overall strategy and city management. Definitely worth trying, and it supports an indie dev instead of some massive company.

one of the best games i ever bought, enjoyed every hour so far, mods add soo much new content so you can never get bored. 10/10

Super fun, without giving an in depth review, this game is 100% worth it if you like management and design.

The game is excellent, with a variety of customization options for creating ships and forts, the game is worth the money. If you've played stellaris or CIV 5, or risk. This game has all those elements into one.
The game mechanics can deliver a lot of strategies to winning a game, whether it's being diplomatic or just being a straight up conquerer (very difficult BTW). Give the game a crack, like the reviews it's worth it.

Great shipbuilding, a fun little 4x-lite procedurally generated campaign map, and satisfying pixel explosions. What's not to like?

Put gun on airship, make other ship become Hindenburg. Very fun and neat strategic elements

I really like the idea, but there are way too many irritants for me to call this a success...

I get that balancing a strategy game is tough, but some of the artificial balance adjustments are bonkers. It feels like enemies don't bother with supplies, and that npc tech levels are seemingly random. heavy steel armor minutes after starting the game? sure..

it's a little barebones in places but if you're the kind of person who daydreams about what "The Best Steampunk Ship" would look like, then you might as well give this a try. the music's decent and the gameplay modes are fun. the writing is kind of cheesy but it's thematically appropriate.

all glory to the wurm

I dove into Airships Conquer the Skies just yesterday and have already logged over 8 hours of gameplay. The freedom to design and experiment with various airship styles is an absolute trip, offering a sandbox of creative possibilities. Not only can you build and customize your airial fleet, but you can also craft equally complex land ships - all the complexities of airship design without thewhole flying thing.

The campaign mode is engaging, set in a world where multiple kingdoms vie for dominance. I particularly appreciated the ability to design and build your own town defenses, adding an extra layer of strategy as you fortify your base. The tech tree further deepens the experience, ensuring that each decision in the campaign can impact your overall strategy.

On the economic front, there's room for growth. While the game currently offers a straightforward approach to city building - with towns and cities that feel somewhat uniform - a more complex economy could have taken things up a notch. For instance, a trading system would have been a fantastic addition, opening up new strategic avenues and making the world feel even more dynamic.

Overall, Airships Conquer the Skies is a solid and imaginative title that skillfully blends creative ship-building with strategic gameplay. It might benefit from a few additional layers, like a more robust economy and trading system, but it still delivers plenty of fun and innovation. I’m excited to see how it evolves in future updates!

Edit: I just discovered multiplayer, Oh boy am I in for a treat.

Great strategy/sandbox game with lots of mechanics and ways to play. Highly reccomend checking it out.

Overall - Definitely worth buying, great fun and surprising depth.

Graphics - Simple but they fit the theme. Nothing groundbreaking, but fine for the game.

Gameplay - Great fun. Skill requirement to make something viable and play the game without too much planning is not too high. Sufficiently in-depth and balanced that there is no single weapon that beats everything and there are a variety of different approaches that will work.

Length of Campaign - The "campaign" is more of a Random Map game with a variety of different enemy fleets. There are lots of options to alter the starting conditions (size, land type, monster frequency, starting tech level etc.), as well as different eras (Normal Age, Dark Age, Age of Plenty, Age of Storms, Age of Monsters, Age of Plague, Age of Madness and many more), which radically change the way the campaign plays out. With the Heroes & Villains DLC, you get City Governors and Ship Captains with a great variety of different abilities and personalities - which ones you get depend on how you play.

Multiplayer - It exists. I don't play MP personally, so I can't really comment much.

Modding - Relatively easy, relatively active modding community. Help and advice available either on Steam or Discord.

I might continue or not. I just feel very ambivalent about it. Everything is so clunky and clumsy. It is a rough game that reminds me of a low-budget very indie development team. Oh, so it is. That does not change my opinion. 40/100

This game is a hoot to be honest. I sank like 50 hours when i thought I'd get max like 15. With the workshop one can have a lot of fun.

A fun sandbox of industrial age fantasy imperialism. Once won a game using no ammo storage so there's plenty of different play styles.

Strikes the right balance between maneuvering in combat, shipbuilding, and strategy. Some systems are a bit simplistic (e.g., income buildings) and in my personal opinion there are some areas that can use some additional balancing, but in every other respect it is a very enjoyable, fast paced, relatively short strategy game, despite straddling several genres known for being very unapproachable.

I bought Airships: Conquer the skies back in December of 2018. I couldn't run it on my crappy dell laptop back then and the developer offered a refund. I denied it because I hope for the game and I'm glad I did, it's turned out to be a wonderful game to play either alone or with friends.

fun and cool

Amazing game i wish i would have bought this sooner. if you like lego you will love this u can build literally anyting. and with all the mods for this game u will have ALOT of content. worth full price no doubt. The DLC is not needed but adds some niche/balanced buffs.

Tried designing an airship. Went fine for the first 30 minutes, then suddenly, inexplicably just fucking breaks. Nothing that I clicked on the the function it was supposed to.

What a fucking disappointment.

10/10 bigger cannon better
also dont just armour the front of your ship they can shoot anywere in a ship so just armour the important stuff not jut the front as thye dont have to go through the front to shoot at your ammo

Nice concept.

A really cool and fantastic game , thanks for that, its worth every euro ! Great ! Awesome ! Fun ! What do you want more !

One of the greatest Indie games ever developed

its actually peak, forts but better

Incredible game

Based, reminds me of Minecraft in the sense that I go through two week phases every two months or so. Couldn't be happier with my purchase

Play it, im not even that big into strategy games but this shit is gas.

I love spamming out old shitty designs to rush the enemy bc the cool airship i designed for about an hour cost too much and gets fucking annihilated when its coughed on.

Airships really comes handy for building original vessels after you adjust to the interface. I haven't tried the story mode that much but I can tell that it is very nice too. Overall, I really recommend this game to RTS lovers and creative people.

Fantastic game I love building ships that function and look cool you also got to think about you ship design for the threat

I've known about Airships since I was like 8, I've always been interested in it and now that I have played it, it does not disappoint 10/10

Fun and engaging, i can sit and design an airship for an hour and try and make it look good for the next hour

It's very good,

Its good, you can make a brick fly, you can make it smash into other more pretty ships. You can take your design and add raiders to board enemy ships or maybe you want big gun, well there are plenty of big guns.

Game has simple concepts to hook the player and offers many complexities to think over and implement. Makes for a fun game.

Got me into wargames

Also Airships has great graphics and great gameplay

You will buy this game or I will launch Aerial Torpedoes at your house.

They locked me in a hangar. A design hangar. A desing hangar with low funding. And low funding makes me cut corners.
(tf you mean its mandatory to have a medbay aboard?)

It's good. Really, really good considering it was built by one guy. The core gameplay loop in conquest mode is infinitely replayable and rewarding. Squeezing every drop of efficiency into your airship designs is awesome. The battles are exciting, especially when you shoot down an enemy who plummets to earth and takes a few of their guys down with them.

Issues include a fairly poor UI. It doesn't quite offer the information I need when I need it. Some menus are hard to find, such as the spy interface...I'd rather have an 'Espionage' tab rather than hunt all around the map for the cities I currently have spies in. I wish it was easier to see which technologies you had already researched, as they look a lot like those you haven't in the menu. Also removing techs from a queue is a feature that should be added...not just start a queue over from scratch if you want to swap out a tech once you've already built a queue.

One other specific but confusing thing is the 'Civilization' names...they are named after their first major city, but if they capture an additional city, and lose their original namesake city...you will get messages like "Tuppington has declared war" even though Tuppington is no longer associated with the empire who just declared war on you. So you must remember which _color_ empire Tuppington used to be...and then find _that_ empire to figure out who you are actually at war with.

But light criticisms aside, I loved this game. Buy it and support the guy for doing a great job.

For a game that's made by one guy, it is nothing short of a masterpiece, which is made even better by its DLC.

You get to build your own units - be it airships, ground vehicles or buildings - block by block, adding colors and decorations as you see fit. It's probably the one game i've played (besides maybe Stellaris) where i've REALLY felt that my faction is truly my own.

There's also a lot of 4X elements, and while conquest is still a very valid strategy, there are other ways to win the game, such as diplomacy, or completing cultist rituals, etc.

I cannot recommend this game highly enough. It's been my go-to comfort game for a while, where i'll sometimes just relax and refine my ship designs.

Get the DLC too, it's absolutely worth every penny.

Torpedo go boom, troop take, moon chunk? Doom.

What a delightful game to play. I had a really good blast for the first 20 hours or so however I quickly got burned out and bored. The DLC is really needed as it brings so much more content and events to the campaign.

I sort of wish there was a bit more content—which is kind of tricky to say because there is so much. Something feels missing but I'm not really sure what specifically..

Overall I will definitely be spending a lot of time with this game and hope the developer continues with it!
8/10

:D

Airships, landships, and towers, What more could you ask for? but seriously this is such a well made game and if you want a hearts of iron lite mixed with a very good vehicle builder then you have it here. GET THIS GAME!!!

The ship building mechanics have an amazing about of depth and nuance, while the variety of weapons and tactics keep things fresh. A great game for builders, artists, and optimizers alike.

I love Airships conquer the skies, probably the best 2d game ive ever played and for its price its a steal, wish they added naval combat though

Good game, asked me to review so I did. Played earlier, still playing. The kind of game I want to make someday if I can. Support this guy.