
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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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.57/day in the week to Aug 27 → 2.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
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.
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
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Reviews
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Reviews
Combat is a bit clunky, the game is very grindy and the graphics aren't spectacular. However, the gameplay loop is very addictive and satisfying. It makes you earn your progress, which could be a turn-off for some people, or digital crack for others like me. Love it and cannot wait to see how it all comes together in the future. One other standout feature of the game, absolutely great soundtrack. Stellar job with that! Oh and the price is a steal too.
Fun desktop idle game, Definetly worth a playthrough
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 112 reviews with recorded playtime.
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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!!
a very cute semipassive desktop toy. tweak your ship's loadout, let it run some missions, check back in and see what's turned up in terms of new gear, credits, and experience points. you can get more involved if you want to, and some parts of the game require active management to engage with, but otherwise this is a very pretty and physical-feeling incremental game that can play some parts of itself. if you're looking for one of those as a second-monitor kind of thing i strongly recommend vanguard galaxy!
Not a bad game but if you are looking for a true idler I would probably look elsewhere, at least as of right now.
boring after a few hours
Love it, just wish it was a persistent online world
Great bones. Game has what it takes to be a classic. I loved EVE but I wasn't a PVP'r this feels very similar, but better. Also the Dev is actively engaging with community on Discord which is a huge win IMHO.
The wife of Adam can eat her heart out, she lost me to the Vanguard Galaxy.
This idle game lets you start a space career in mining or salvaging, then you can advance into combat. Idling all night yields a small amount of money. I'm into space games and give this one a thumbs up.
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