Vectored Armada
– Design ships out of individual destructible blocks
– Compose fleets of your ships, within your allocated budget.
– Colour your fleets as you like.
– Watch automated battles with loads of ships. You are the Architect, not the commander.
– Singleplayer campaign; budgeted challenges. Send your fleets to fight escalating battles to take down The Oppressor.
– Asychronous Multiplayer – alright alright, not true async-multi, but you can share your fleets with other people and import their fleets to battle against.
Build ships out of individual building blocks, using a gridless port system that allows you to build in either straight and orderly fashion, or wobbly and wonderful ways.
Each block can be broken individually, allowing ships to shatter into pieces. How you build your ship is very important to its structural integrity.
Many shapes of block, allowing you to build in rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, and penrose styles.
Many weapon types, filling the needs of anything from brawler battleships to elegant artillery vessels.
Ships have movement physics requiring you to think a little about where you put your engines.
Ship systems use energy, requiring you to plan out what you can and cannot afford to have on board.
Compose fleets using your ships. Place them in strong formations, or just splay them out across your allotted space. Either way, fleet tactics and force composition will win the day.
You don’t control the ships when they are in battle – you are only the Architect.
It’s up to you to design your ships, compose your fleet, and configure their behavior to perform to their best in battle.
Singleplayer Campaign
A large set of challenge battles that will test your skills in ship architecture and fleet composition. Battle against tough premade fleets, designed by myself and members of the VA beta tester community.
Inspired by Arthur Danskin’s Reassembly.
Game Discussion
Steam User 3
Vectored Armada is a game that has a ton of building options and allows you to build things far more complex and beautiful in structure compared to games like reassembly and nimbatus. the only real complaint i have is that the game is slower-paced than the previously mentioned games. if you wanted reassembly but more strategic and more focused on fleet play, this is the game for you - i personally like it and would recommend, but its not for everyone
Steam User 1
Pretty fun ship building/fighting game reminiscent of Reassembly, could use some finer AI tuning/more specific behaviors but I'm liking it so far.
Steam User 2
tl;dr: It's inexpensive, sandbox-y, and fun. Do recommend.
Vectored Armada is, on the surface, a relatively simple and straightforward sandbox shipbuilder and combat game. The blend of free-form building (comparable to similar games Cosmoteer and Reassembly) combined with the campaign intended to give a variety of challenges (not unlike Gratuitous Space Battles) place this game in a comfortable niche where low mental investment is required to play and have fun, but at the same time ruthlessly maximizing combat efficacy of ships is a plenty-valid way to approach the game.
But one of the ways where this game really knocks it out of the park is 'freedom'. The game hands the reigns almost completely to the player to allow them to customize the aesthetics of their fleet. From coloring individual blocks of the ship to mounting weapons on hardpoints placed on blocks that normally wouldn't allow it, the game lets you, the player, have the final say.
Steam User 3
Honestly, for an early access game that follows Reassembly quite nicely yet with a different tone and I like the hands off nature of the combat, seeing it as it is now makes me very excited for the future of the game, I hope others find it as enjoyable as I have so far!
Steam User 1
I've only played a little bit of VA, but it's pretty alright so far. My biggest complaint are simple UI/control issues. They're the sorts of things that can be fixed easily, and I've already passed my feedback on to the developers in their discord.
Games in this little niche genre are vanishingly rare. I really like the ability to attach custom UI to the ships, and watch them battle it out auto-battler style. So far, this game has a lot of promise and I look forward to seeing what it becomes.
Steam User 1
Very fun even at this early stage and seems perfect for future development
Steam User 2
Proud of you Luke!