Onboard combat against hostile intruders is a messy business
Explore a detailed and deadly universe
Embark on a perilous journey through a procedurally generated universe and explore massive space sectors crawling with exotic lifeforms. Engage in action-packed tactical combat against hostile ships, boarding parties and inter-dimensional space monsters.
Each ship comes with its own strengths and weaknesses
Master the art of survival by customising your ship with modular components and perks. Choose from a range of spaceships and manage life within your vessel - from crew, pets and drones to ship modules and weapons. Shape your journey through hundreds of multiple-choice events, featuring unique hand-drawn illustrations.
Shortest Trip to Earth features unforgiving permadeath, but you can unlock perks to increase the odds of survival on your next run.
Key Features
- Master the art of survival in unexplored space!
- Explore a procedurally generated universe, packed with content
- Collect resources, craft modules & upgrade your ship
- Epic real-time tactical space battles
- Onboard combat, featuring hostile intruders, drones and battle-hardened pets
- 500+ ship modules, a variety of ship weapons and nukes
- 30+ unique crew weapons
- 50+ types of crew, drones & combat pets
- Hundreds of random events with unique illustrations and outcomes
- Every ship starts with a cat
- Shortest Trip to Earth Linux [479.18 M]
- Shortest Trip to Earth - Supporters Starting Pack Linux (1172131) [180.63 M]
- Shortest Trip to Earth - New Enemies Linux (1392711) [87.15 M]
The new "Easy Tiger" ship that we unveil today will provide you an easier start & more modular space for the long run. Additionally, we introduce some further quality-of-life upgrades, and a new round of balances. For example, all playable ships, cannons and gatling guns are now better. See the changelog below for a complete overview.
New content and features
- Added new ship: Easy Tiger (along with new crew, exotic weapons, modules and ship-specific perks)
- Added new functionality: you can now mutliselect all crewmembers assigned to a job (for example select all firefighters or select all lab workers) with a single click
- Added new DIY plastics nuke
- Tigerfish and Nuke runner are now available only in challenging/hardcore difficulty
- Some extra sector lore/story is now visible between levels (used to be readable only from sector selection)
Balance-related updates
- In challenging/hardcore difficulty: module max hp damage now happens less, in 10% cases instead of 15%
- Made many cannons slower to reload but more accurate
- Made drones/humans a little faster
- Made many containers better
- Made medical cryosleep even better
- Gave all player ships new craftable nukes
- Added empty misc slots to Rogue Rat & Weirdship in place of old module storage.
- Most playable ships now start with more credits (420)
- Majority of cannons and gatling guns are now more accurate and consume less explosives
- Reduced cost of converting explosives to fuel
Fixes & misc changes
- Crew repair stopped message now appears only for player own crewmembers
- Endurance and Roundship cargo slot fixed: added new misc slot to its place
- Fixed cryosleep 3x medical navigation
- Changed navmesh for Pirate Kalev to fix a nav issue
- Fixed endurance perk
- Fixed a misplaced door on atlas ship
- Changed weapon decoy module graphics
- Changed button sounds on crew assignments panel
Minimum Setup
- OS: Linux
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or equivalentMemory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD4400 or dedicated DX11 GPU (1280x720)
- Storage: 600 MB available space
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu LTS
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalentMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 1050 (1920x1080)
- Storage: 600 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Large screen highly recommended (24" or better)
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