Void War

Tundra / Jun 2, 2025 / Adventure, Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy

Singleplayer

windows
Steam Deck Playable

169 playing now

That's more people than live in the Pitcairn Islands.

Command an ancient starship and fight your way to the heart of a dying Empire. Fend off attacks from demented cultists, craven space pirates, and xenophobic Imperial soldiers. Discover powerful artifacts and use them to build your ship into a fearsome war engine.

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What's new

Patch #23: The Oblivion Update

2026-09-29

Greetings Commander, The latest update has been released: Release v1.5.2a - Oblivion This update adds the final variant of the Oblivion Cruiser, Chernobog, a half-living ship possessed by an infernal force and the product of forgotten sorceries. All commanders who enter the dreaded Chernobog gain the ability to possess new crewmembers and convert them into demons. Version Number: Release v1.5.2a Content • New ship: Oblivion Cruiser C • New system: Demon Throne • New unit: Ghoul Archmagus • New unit: Ravenous • New crew equipment: Tlazol Symbiote • New module: Bilious Growths • Added 6 new Shrine encounters • Added Demonic Indoctrination Gameplay • Redesigned Indoctrination • Provisional fix for units occasionally losing the effects of faction-specific modules when mind controlled • Provisional fix for Seeker Missiles occasionally activating when purchased Visual

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• Added Abominable portrait art Text • Fixed typo in Lazarus Kit ability • Fixed wording inconsistencies in several abilities • Miscellaneous typo fixes

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What players say

Very Positive

94% positive, 3,541 reviews

Recommended2 hrs played

G*mes W*rksh*p can blatantly rip-off Dune, Starship Troopers, Aliens, BattleTech, Judge Dredd, and literally every other sci-fi IP from back in the day and get away with it, but god forbid an indie dev is inspired by some of the designs in 40k. tl:dr Void War is good.

850 found this helpful, 2026-02-08

Recommended62 hrs played

99% rip off of FTL mechanics with 95% rip off of 40k aethstetic and lore. 100% would buy again. please release more.

244 found this helpful, 2025-10-09

Recommended101 hrs played

Great game, FTL with a bit more granularity in a grimdark setting. Love to the dev who can't stop getting screwed over by Steam/GW. Played a lot of the pre-release, and also at launch. Came back a year later and there was a bunch of new content, put in another 60 hours.

149 found this helpful, 2026-02-06

Recommended32 hrs played

The reductive description is that it's FTL set in a legally-distinct Warhammer 40,000-like universe, replete with mutants, psykers, and daemons, with a dev team that will come across as earnest FTL fans who have only ever beaten the game with boarding strategies. And your initial run your initial impressions, will be indistinguishable from the above description, all the more when it's prefaced with a mandatory...