Airmen
Released Jul 2017
Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.
76% positive · 362 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Where to buy
Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
Airmen launched on July 25, 2017 and has received a long series of incremental updates over the years. The developer maintained a fairly consistent pattern of smaller feature patches and the occasional larger content drop, such as seasonal events and gameplay system overhauls. The most recent developer communication of any kind was a feature patch on April 1, 2023, which added cosmetic color options for ship piping. Prior to that, updates arrived roughly every 2–4 weeks throughout 2022 and into early 2023. The developer explicitly noted in June 2022 that the cadence was shifting to biweekly updates. However, since April 1, 2023, there have been no further posts, patches, or announcements of any kind — a silence now stretching past June 2026, more than three years with no developer communication. Given the previously active biweekly update cadence, this prolonged silence well exceeds any reasonable expectation of a gap between updates. No future content has been announced, no unreleased DLC exists on the store, and there are no outstanding developer commitments visible. The game appears to have reached the end of its active development cycle, with the April 2023 patch marking the practical conclusion of post-launch content work.
Evidence
Version 1.23.24 added cosmetic piping tint options and fixed color variation bugs. This is the last known developer communication.
Spookening seasonal event content shipped, including new bone beam parts and walker legs.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Airborne Games
Achievements
17
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · PvP
About this game
Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Start with an empty hangar and build your ship piece by piece. Crew you ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the Archipelago. Fill your cargo hold with wood, aetherium, magnesite and more to upgrade your ship. Mine resources or raid the cargo holds of other players or AI air forts. Take the wheel, mount the turrets, grab an axe for boarding action, or keep the engines running with a repair hammer but beware: every component of your ship can be destroyed so be sure to extract in one piece.
Features
- Build your own airship, landship or watercraft from scratch with a growing catalog of 300+ parts!
- Join your friends and build a ship together with co-op building.
- Arm your ships with aimable cannon batteries, pigeon-guided missiles, rams, harpoons, player operated turrets and more.
- Propel your ship with traditional propellers, wheels, tank tracks, walker legs and even a domesticated mechalodon.
- Build ships from 3k to 30k mass to create quick cargo haulers, versatile brawlers, or combat juggernauts.
- Explore the many islands of the Archipelago in search of rare resources to upgrade your ship.
- Run deliveries, hunt quarries, harvest resources and defeat AI installations all across the open-world Archipelago.
- Form a fleet to take on powerful world bosses like the Mechalodon and Ghost Ship.
- Complete contracts to gain reputation with multiple factions across the Archipelago.
- Crew your ship with any number of friends or fly solo against enemy crew and AI controlled encounters across the Archipelago.
- Board enemies and commandeer their ship using grappling hooks, knives, axes, revolvers, rifles and boarding charges.
- Destroy ships by destroying individual components: a ship without engines can't power it's guns!
- Unlock 60+ player cosmetics by completing in-game challenges.
- Share your ships and download others' through the Steam Workshop.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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