A story-driven variation of the 2015 game Endless Sky, the spiritual successor to Escape Velocity. You can still explore other star systems. Earn money by trading, carrying passengers, or completing missions. Use your earnings to buy a better ship or to upgrade the weapons and engines on your current one. Blow up pirates. But now you can Truly pick a side in the Civil War.
Endless Sky is a sandbox-style space exploration game similar to Elite, Escape Velocity, or Star Control. You start out as the captain of a tiny space ship and can choose what to do from there. The game includes a major plot line and many minor missions, but you can choose whether you want to play through the plot or strike out on your own as a merchant or bounty hunter or explorer.
See the player's manual for more information, or the home page for screenshots and the occasional blog post.
Currently Endless Sky Civil War are only availible from our Releases page.
Official releases of Endless Sky itself are available on Steam and as direct downloads from GitHub. A PPA is available for Ubuntu and for Debian. Other package managers may also include the game, though the specific version provided may not be up-to-date.
Endless Sky Civil War has the same very minimal system requirements as Endless Sky. Meaning most systems should be able to run the game. The most restrictive requirement is likely that your device must support at least OpenGL 3.0+
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| RAM | 350 MB | 750 MB |
| Graphics | OpenGL 3.0 | OpenGL 3.3 |
| Storage Free | 65 MB | 170 MB |
For now, the build instructions are the same as for Endless Sky. For full installation instructions, consult the Build Instructions wiki page.
Endless Sky Civil War falls under the same open-source, public-domain style of development and contributing as Endless Sky itself. Those who wish to contribute are encouraged to review the wiki, and, most importantly, join our Discord
Endless Sky and Endless Sky Civil War are both free, open source games. The Endless Sky source code and Endless Sky Civil War source code are available under the GPL v3 license, and all the artwork is either public domain or released under a variety of Creative Commons licenses. (To determine the copyright status of any of the artwork, consult the copyright file.)
Please note as this is simply side project to Endless Sky, and although it is lead by another, this is still Michael Zahniser's intellectual property and universe.