Airships: Conquer the Skies

A literal blast.
Build intricate airships, defensive structures and giant tanks that are simulated to the extent of pathing the crewmen to carry resources like ammo and water around the structure. Build beds and sickbays, targeting computers that run on coal, enormous single-use rockets, ballistas, mechanical tentacles to rip out enemy crew from other ships, or just giant tank treads that let you run over castles. Even air resistance, weight-to-lift and distance-to-keel are part of ship design. And much more!
Then you fight a realtime, pausable, 2D battle where ships can be riddled with cannon holes, have whole sections broken off, boarded with marines and hijacked. The scale of the conquest game is like a 4X civilization-building game where you take over towns and develop them, conquer enemy cities and engage in diplomacy. You can even risk your fleets against enormous mythological monsters or mad scientists with robot armies.
It's so much fun and well worth the price.

I like this game because you can make cool and normal looking airships, but you can also make the horrors.

Airships: Conquer the Skies is great for a number of reasons:

1. The shipbuilding and design part of the game is very intuitive and well done, with many possible ship designs ranging from little fighters to gigantic flagships spewing rockets and bullets. The ships you use for each play through usually have to be designed for each situation due to rapid changes in resource availability and new research into better ways to kill people, with everything from just dropping rocks to cannons the size of a small apartment to steampunk laser beams , you will always be finding new weapons and other tools to redesign your ships around. This is great because the ship building is arguably the best part of the game and most everything in game revolves around it.

2. The combat is very engaging with fights not being determined by who has the best ship and fleet make-up but also tactics play an important role. you can't just build a giant stack of gigantic city dwarfing destroyers and march them right up to the biggest defensive building on the map, because that's how you get ripped apart by flack cannons. for every fight you have to consider how to best maneuver you ships so all of your weapons can hit them and few of theirs can hit you. beyond staying out of range of enemy fire, you can also command your ships recourse use to an extent, choosing to conserve or quickly rush through ammo depending on the situation. both of these considerations in tactics are amplified by random weather effects and the occasional monster fight, which challenges you to think differently about how you fight, sometimes even requiring a small fleet built just to clear one giant nest in a few of the more end game monster infestations cough cough moon disk cough so the fights never get old because there is no one strategy you can use to triumph over every situation. This is probably further expanded on by the DLC, but I don't have it (yet) so I cant speak on it, but just know you do not need it for the fights to be very varied and fun.

3. The style and art in this game is amazing, and the game does a great job taking advantage of the simplicity of pixel art while also making every bit of the environment, ship, and character design feel detailed and in line with that 1800-1900s brand imperialism, especially with the little details like the sea monsters and blemmyes on the campaign map. The monster design is also great with some of them literally towering over head making all but the biggest of ships look like mere ants in their wake.

the biggest problem I have ever had with the game is during end game fight where some of the AI decide to just spam rifles on their defenses, which can in very very large numbers start to make the game slow down, bu I have never had any problems with crashes and it mostly only slowed down in 3x speed.
Overall, great game, very empire, would recommend.

This game in amazing.
Ever since the young age of four, I've been infatuated with ideas such as imperialism, militarism, industrialism, and above all... AIRSHIPS
This game has quenched my unending thirst for destructive dirigible. The idea of giant metallic glories laying hell upon there enemies from the heavens no longer sits at the back of my mind but it is something I can engage in thanks to this hidden gem made by the honorable developer DAVID STARK!

At first glance, this might appear highly priced for an otherwise simple indie game. It is anything but. Complex, performance friendly - even addicting. This is easily among my favorite games already, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone on the fence.

In truth i have played for many years..never multiplayer..cant deal with the rudeness of people...not i know in this game but in general ...but this game just keeps giving...I have played since it was in development...lost the plot come back..played again..its the whole package..love it..

A game that really lets you create and dream so many different things - the satisfaction of designing and refining a ship is so immensely and eternally enjoyable. This game has a ton of depth if you want to engage with it, which truly allows you to come with some crazy airships. It can get pretty granular if you want it to be - stuff like aerodynamics, or ammo travel time are all taken into account when a ship is designed - you can make a perfectly functioning ship without looking at these things, but they're cool and beneficial to look at.
The game either takes place in one of two ways - the conquest mode, where you are managing an empire and expanding your fleets, managing your income, relations and defenses across multiple cities OR there's the free play modes, which is just put stuff together. There's also multiplayer! I personally enjoy the conquest mode, as it forces you to improvise with your budget - some seriously sketch ships produced on a budget have driven me to victory many a time. Super fun game if you like designing shit, highly recommend.