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Desktop Space Battles playtest
by Phat Phrog Studios
Your desktop is the battlefield. Build and customise a fleet of 25 ships, command towering Capital Ships and unleash spectacular online space battles across your screen. Watch fighters clash, missiles hunt and hulls shatter as you challenge rival commanders on Steam.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Oct 20, 2026
- Planned release
- Q1 2027
- Developer
- Phat Phrog Studios
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Multiplayer, Online PvP, PvP, Single-player
- Languages
- Arabic, Dutch, English, Finnish and 15 more
How to join the Desktop Space Battles playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Desktop Space Battles playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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How AI is used
A few visual assets (UI), translations and promotional materials for Desktop Space Battles were created with the assistance of generative AI tools. All AI-generated content was reviewed, refined, and integrated by the developer to ensure consistency with the game's artistic direction and quality standards.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Desktop Space Battles
YOUR DESKTOP IS THE BATTLEFIELD
Build your fleet and unleash space battles directly on your desktop. Watch fighters trade laser fire, dodge missiles and clash alongside powerful Capital Ships.
You choose the strategy. Your ships fight it out.
START SMALL. BUILD YOUR ARMADA.
Begin with a Battlecruiser and two Scouts, then earn rewards and grow your fleet to 25 powerful fighter ships. Keep up to 100 ships in your Hangar and arrange your starting formation.
Fit weapons, engines, shields, armour plating and tactical equipment. Assign crew, customise your Capital Ship’s four turrets and balance power between weapons, shields and thrusters.
GIVE THE ORDERS
Defend your Capital Ship, flank enemies or hunt distant targets. Set each ship’s priorities and choose how close it fights.
Watch shields collapse, turrets break and damaged ships spin out of control. Destroy the enemy Capital Ship before they destroy yours.
CHOOSE YOUR SIDE
Join the Crimson Directorate or the Veyran Compact, customise your own unique Banner and challenge other commanders through Steam. Build your fleet’s power and climb the ranks.
FIT THE BATTLE AROUND YOUR DESKTOP
Adjust ship opacity and mark fly-under zones around important areas of your workspace.
Your fleet. Your tactics.
From the game's Steam page.
