
A relaxing game about space exploration that can be played full screen or at the bottom of your screen. Trade, fight, mine and salvage your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Let the game idle while your autopilot handles business and builds your fortune.
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Welcome to the Canis Major dwarf galaxy! We hope that your trip through the Great Gate was a safe one; many of the fortune-seekers that embark on this dangerous journey never make it this far. After all, an unauthorized jump of 25,000 light years through a heavily guarded artificial wormhole is bound to cause some issues – both technical and legal. Thankfully, now that you’re here, it’s time to get straight to business.
Choose your own playstyle
Combat: Fight enemies using a wide range of weaponry.
Mining: Scrape asteroid surfaces or blow them to bits to harvest their core.
Salvage: Discover and salvage derelict ships and wreckage.
Trading: Find the best trade routes. Buy low, sell high.
Play the game full screen or place it on the bottom of your desktop
You can let the autopilot play idle or take a more hands on approach.
Find and collect loot
You'll find powerful gear and rare items that allow you to push further into the sectors.
Buy and upgrade new ships
Choose from a wide variety of ships, ranging from small miners to large destroyers.
Dynamic NPC captains
From rival pirates and traders to helpful miners. Interact, ally, fight or avoid them.
Refine raw ore/salvage and craft your gear
Raw resources can be refined into materials. Use these materials to craft powerful gear to boost your ships and level up your game. Or sell them for a handy profit.
Level up your captain and hire crew
Pick from multiple skill trees and unlock powerful abilities or focus on becoming an industrial powerhouse. Crew with different professions provide passive perks and unique bonuses that enhance your skill trees.
Explore a vast, procedurally generated galaxy
Travel using the gate-network.
Story & dynamic missions
A wide range of different missions that will require you to diversify your ships.
Play Vanguard Galaxy full screen on a second monitor or place it at the bottom of your screen. It stays out of your way when you need to focus on something else (work, play another game, or watch a video). Engage the Autopilot and your ship’s ECHO system will complete most basic tasks on its own, with minimal input required from you.

You are let loose in a procedurally generated world where corporate interests clash with the galaxy’s established population. Pledge allegiance to one of the corporations, or stay neutral and forge your own path. The world reacts to your actions and builds its own storyline as you explore new systems and make a name for yourself.
Level up your captain and crew, and equip all of your space ships with top-of-the-line components. The deepest reaches of the galaxy may be savage and unpredictable, but with sufficient preparation you’ll be ready for any challenge it can throw at you.
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Languages: English
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 48 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
I played the game for over 300 hours then they did an update and made the game totally garbage they're making the crafting system overall in the game suck and a lot of skills useless 50% of the hours on this game I actually played actively myself I don't really like using the AI cuz it kind of sucks and other reason why I'm dropping this game also drones are now kind of useless this is impossible to find officers that will allow you to deploy drones faster anymore so you'll die before you kill all the targets cuz it takes too long for your drones to come out the game is evolving in a direction I don't like so I'm done I might check it out again in the future but it's pretty much not for me anymore
I thought this looked interesting, and it was on sale, so what the hell. This game has two buttons: Left click to go, right click to sell. If you're expecting something deep (or even slightly complicated), you'll be disappointed. Others compared this to EV Nova or Eve Online; it's utterly simple and can't make up its mind to be an idle game or an active game. As a result, it's the worst thing a game can be: boring. And since the game uses AI art throughout, it's also the second worst thing a game can be: lazy.
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I wanted to like the game, I really did. It's a beautiful concept, full of nice ideas. The "idle" part is a really nice feature. ...But... it shoots itself in the foot way too many times. 1. AI mines asteroid fields by itself, but: ignores claimed asteroid fields (prefers public ones), hauls the minerals to the nearest station (if it has no Forge, you're screwed). 2. Manual mining and salvaging are EXTREMELY boring. 20 minutes to salvage 5K worth of stuff, while I stare at an empty screen with nothing to do? 3. Attacking a pirate station was extremely frustrating. Your ship actively fights you, flying every which way, mostly failing to avoid enemy rockets and nibbling at the wrong station parts 90% of the time, despite having a clear designated attack area. 4. Upgrading is a TEDIOUS process and improvements are not nearly making a visible impact. +1.5% to fire rate is not worth the sweat. 5. Some items disappeared from my Cargo until I restarted the game. Early access, I know, but man, the game needs some core design reconsidered. I will revisit it at release, but, as it stands right now, I increasingly wondered "why am I even playing this?", to the point where I stopped.
This game is a cat. You can play with it, then go to school/work, and leave the cat at home, to play with itself. Then you come back home and continue playing with a cat. Just leave some food for it in the bowl and it will feed itself while you're away. Day after day after day. Has asteroids, ships, pirates, shipwrecks, guns, space stations, forging, refining, buying, selling and Explosions! Best cat ever!
I have played EvE Online nearly since launch, and I still love it, but becoming a parent limits time drastically. Since I can't truly AFK EvE without a good chance of coming back podded, especially with Goon Squad's lust for random destruction, jerks, I needed a fix, something worthy of EvE, even if on a temporarily smaller scale, i'm sure this game will grow, and I found it with Vanguard Galaxy. I literally just bought the game a few weeks ago and I have 42 hours played with my busy schedule. I love it, the afk mode is flawless and I can actually be entertained while parenting, like watching a favorite show. Highly recommended for parent gamers who love EvE and space games in general. Ship variety is awesome!! The music rocks as well!!
Love it, just wish it was a persistent online world
Still in active development, but surprising I haven't run into any bugs yet. Very enjoyable space adventure with well paced upgrades and new ships to discover and purchase. The variety of materials to find and the crafting system are solid. New features should be coming soon to further expand options post -fights. If you enjoy space exploration and customizing ships to certain roles, give it a shot!
Looking forward to this one!
Outstanding game so far and I haven't even used any automation features yet.
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