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From one of the most successful Mobile Game Kickstarter campaigns of the year comes Pixel Starships!\n\n\nPixel Starships is the world’s first total spaceship management game in an 8bit massive online universe. In Pixel Starships, you command every aspect of your ship from construction to battles in a single persistent world.\n\n\nFeatured Reviews -\n\nTouch Arcade - Pixel Starships tasks you with outfitting your very own ship with resource rooms, staff, and weapons. This looks Awesome!\n\nMMGN - The graphics in this 8Bit indie game is the best we've seen in a retro style game for a long time\n\nPocketTactics - I’m intrigued by the cutaway side-view of the starship with turbolifts and transporters at the ready \n\nTechTimes - The World’s First 8-Bit Total Starship Management Game Hits The Online Universe\n\nThe Discovery Channel - A fully immersive starship captain experience.\n\n\nKey Features -\n\n● Build Epic Starships of your own design.\n● Many races, aliens, factions to command and conquer.\n● Battle it out with other real players in a single massive online universe.\n● Manage diplomacy, recruitment, research, exploration!\n● Control ship's power and limited resources. Discover epic weapons.\n● Build and deploy support ships to support your Starfleet.\n● Cross section full ship control and battles.\n● Explore planets, discover secrets of space.\n● Form alliances and battle with your friends to achieve victory!\n● Program situational AI commands to systems and crew allowing automatic combats and offline play.\n\n\nIf you're a fan of Star Wars and Star Trek; if you enjoy games like EVE, Clash of Clans, FTL, or Homeworld, you'll love Pixel Starships!\n\nNote -\n\nPixel Starships is totally free to play and is designed for perfect balance for all players. However, there are in-app items that can be purchased for real money to help speed up progress or offer cosmetic improvements. If you don't want this feature, please disable in-app purchases in your device's settings. \n\nNote on Auto-Renewing Subscription - \n\nPixel Starships contains a optional Subscription Membership. Members receive extra missions, bonuses, and daily rewards. Membership content is regularly updated. \n\nThe Monthly Membership Subscription cost is USD $3.99 per month or a similarly adjusted currency price in your local region. Please refer to IAP menu or in app display for localised pricing. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. \n\nThe subscription is auto renewable and will renew monthly unless cancelled at least 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription can be cancelled via iTunes subscription manager. There is also a 7 day free trial for the membership; the free trial period is not transferrable and any remaining free time is cancelled if a paying subscription starts.\n\nSubscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.\n\nEULA: http://www.pixelstarships.com/eula\nPrivacy Policy: http://www.pixelstarships.com/privacypolicy\n\nAs per Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, you must be at least 13 years of age to play or download Pixel Starships.","facts":{"developer_id":295726257,"developer_url":"http://www.pixelstarships.com/","first_released":"2016-01-06T08:33:01Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"0.999.65","release_notes":"Level 14 Ships take flight! New Missions, Ship Hulls, Room Types, Crafts, Missiles, Torpedoes, and much more! 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