Posted: 2 years ago, last updated 15 months ago.
Author: @GeekDadGamer and Jo Robertson.
Overview
Space Crew is a strategy game where you use a team of characters to control a spaceship and explore the galaxy. Unlike other space flight games, you don't directly control your craft but get your crew to look after different aspects of the mission. It's like helming your own Starship Enterprise or Millennium Falcon.
From the same developer as Bomber Crew and is a similar style of game. Rather than World War II though, players are tasked with defending Earth against a mysterious new alien menace by carefully recruiting crew members, designing their own spaceship and venturing across the cosmos.
What's so much fun about the game is selecting and training your crew, then working out how best to use them in each mission. The new space setting allows much more player freedom and campaign unpredictability than the World War setting, with much greater mission variety and deeper strategic gameplay.
You have to deal with alien boardings, getting sucked out into space, running out of oxygen, system failures, ship fires and whatever else the campaign can throw at you.
From the same developer as Bomber Crew and is a similar style of game. Rather than World War II though, players are tasked with defending Earth against a mysterious new alien menace by carefully recruiting crew members, designing their own spaceship and venturing across the cosmos.
What's so much fun about the game is selecting and training your crew, then working out how best to use them in each mission. The new space setting allows much more player freedom and campaign unpredictability than the World War setting, with much greater mission variety and deeper strategic gameplay.
You have to deal with alien boardings, getting sucked out into space, running out of oxygen, system failures, ship fires and whatever else the campaign can throw at you.
Game Details
Release Date: 15/10/2020, updated in 2021
Price: 80% off
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Content Rating: PEGI 7
Players: 1
Genres: Role-Play, Strategy (Action, Adventure, Shooting and Simulation)
Accessibility: 13 features
Developer: Curve Digital (@CurveDigital)
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Duration
Play Time: It takes between 5 minutes and 45 minutes to play a round of this game. Missions vary in length depending on difficulty and how far you are in the campaign.
Play Style
This is a single-player game.
Costs
Space Crew usually costs £17.99 to £19.99.
There are no additional in-game purchases, loot boxes, adverts or subscription costs.
Space Crew: Legendary Edition expands the original game and can be purchased seperatley. If you brought the game originally you get a free update with these features:
Space Crew
Space Crew: Legendary Edition
![]() | PC | £19.99 | £6.79 until 06/02/2023 | – |
![]() | Switch | £19.99 | – | – |
![]() | Mac | £19.99 | – | – |
![]() | PS4 | Free | – | Free PS Plus Extra |
Space Crew: Legendary Edition expands the original game and can be purchased seperatley. If you brought the game originally you get a free update with these features:
- New campaign where you take on a droid army led by rogue androids previously allied with the United Defence Force.
- Away Team missions where you leave your ship and venture on foot for the first time with three of your crew onto outposts and large vessels.
- Legendary Crew members to build and personalise your ultimate crew. They are discovered and rescued in missions and offer new abilities and superior stats, to bolster your efforts against the enemy threat.
Accessibility
Our Space Crew Accessibility Report documents 13 accessibility features:
A lot of small subtitles for dialogue. There is a Large UI option although this isn't enabled on Switch.
You can slow down and speed up time in the game to reduce pressure, although this is a combat game where pressure is designed to be part of the challenge.
A lot of small subtitles for dialogue. There is a Large UI option although this isn't enabled on Switch.
You can slow down and speed up time in the game to reduce pressure, although this is a combat game where pressure is designed to be part of the challenge.
Diversity and Inclusion
We haven't documented diversity and inclusion information for this game yet.

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