Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Airship: Kingdoms Adrift

Released Sep 2023

Welcome to Suthseg! As the newly commissioned airship captain, forge a mercantile empire across the archipelago, until the great powers of Europa turn their attention toward it. Build up a fleet, chart trade routes, establish industries, and explore the frontier at your airship's helm!

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Evaluation

Airship: Kingdoms Adrift launched on September 21, 2023 and received a strong run of major post-launch updates: Major Update #2 (November 20, 2023), Major Update #3 (December 15, 2023), Major Update #4 "The Ending Update" completing the main storyline (January 19, 2024), and Major Update #6 "The Anniversary Logistic Update" (September 15, 2024). Both listed DLC items — the War Corvettes DLC and the Soundtrack — shipped on January 19, 2024. On September 4, 2025, the developer published a detailed roadmap post acknowledging that the core team had moved on to a new project but committed to returning to Kingdoms Adrift to address player feedback. This kicked off a new phase of active work: a major beta update (Beta 1.8.0) shipped on May 13, 2026 delivering combat performance improvements, a new manual firing mechanic, expanded automation, a new test drive experience, fast travel, and numerous bug fixes. Follow-up beta patches continued through June 20, 2026 (Beta 1.8.12, adding an in-game tutorial) and July 29, 2026 (Beta 1.8.36, addressing hotfixes). The developer has been explicit that this beta branch work is intended to be promoted to the default branch once the tutorial and a few remaining items are finalized. They have also acknowledged that some roadmap items — including EXP/crew progression reworks, ship loadout templates, map-driven UX improvements, and German localization — have not yet started. The developer is actively communicating and shipping updates as recently as July 29, 2026, and has not declared development complete.
Evidence
Beta 1.8.12 added an in-game tutorial system and major physics performance improvements, described as ongoing work toward a major update coming to the default branch later this year.
news post · Jun 20, 2026 source development ongoing
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Beta 1.8.0 delivered major roadmap improvements: combat CPU optimization, manual firing mechanic, click-to-command targeting, expanded automation, fast travel, and a new test drive experience. Developer notes some roadmap items (EXP rework, loadout templates, map UX, German localization) have not yet started.
news post · May 14, 2026 source development ongoing
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2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Publisher
indie.io
Achievements
143
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · PvP

About this game

  • Experience a story of politics and intrigue, as Suthseg becomes the flashpoint for another Sky War.

  • Customize, upgrade, and pilot 25 various airships, from graceful sailing vessels to ironclad dreadnoughts.

  • Assemble a crew of officers among 25 distinct personalities, each with their own abilities and personal stories to tell.

  • Explore and trade across a vast archipelago with 70 locations and over 300 types of trade goods.

  • Set up camps, mines, and factories, to create a mighty industrial empire producing goods and equipment and dominate the economy.

  • Become the greatest of the skyfaring captains, controlling an entire fleet of airships and deciding the fate of the Kingdom.

Airship: Kingdoms Adrift is an airship trading and combat simulator, set in the wake of a Great Sky War that ripped through the steampunk world of Spheara. An uneasy cease-fire holds between the Aecerlian Kingdom, the New Viridian Republic, and the Teutonic Confederation. As they lick their wounds, their suddenly jobless soldiers and skyfarers look for new opportunities among the desolation.

Enter the Suthseg Archipelago. A far-flung frontier ruled by an aging king, it was spared from devastation of war and is a land full of riches and opportunity. It is here that fortunes will be made, loyalties tested, and skyfaring captains will get the rare chance to carve out a future of their own.

You are one of these captains, commissioned to establish a trading company in the Archipelago, and soon pulled into a game of grand politics… and grave danger.

Suthseg is a vast archipelago with over 70 known settlements and untold riches awaiting intrepid explorers. Pilot your airship across the expanse, seeking out new partners to trade with, resources to exploit, and hostile vessels to send plummeting to the ground below.

Select from more than 30 distinct types of airships, each customizable with scores of weapons, armor types, special equipment, and more. Will your airship be a lumbering ironclad bristling with weapons? Or a nimble monitor that could punch out an opponent well above her weight class.

Then take your personal ship and tackle more than 500 handcrafted encounters with dastardly pirates, competing merchants, local militias, and skyfaring manowars of the great powers.

Seek out merchants and deal in over 300 different trade goods, from essential supplies to cutting edge airship weapons. Buy low, sell high, and amass profits to make even the richest merchants green with envy!

Industry and armaments are the backbone of the economy. Establish mines, lumberyards, foundries, and pour these resources into your own factories, to fund and maintain the greatest skyfaring fleet in the archipelago.

Devise one of a kind strategies! Will you be the bane of pirates, seizing their ill-gotten gains? A titan of industry, carefully carving out an industrial empire? Or a heroic trader, charting trade routes where nobody would dare?

What starts as a straightforward commission will soon draw you into the world of treachery and grand politics, as dozens of rival factions clash over the fate of the Kingdom!

Navigate across the treacherous currents of modern politics and the dramatic changes wrought by the ceasefire that finished the Great Sky War.

Most importantly, take control and change the course of history. Who will be your foe? Who will ultimately prevail in the skies of the Suthseg Archipelago?

Play online in 1vs1 or up to 3vs3 multiplayer PvP mode. Hop into your favorite gunboat and set up a match with your friends, or join our community and field your best Battle Cruiser in epic battles. Set a budget limit and challenge your shipbuilding skill, put it to the test against online competitors. Select from various map sizes and layouts which impose different design challenges to your ship and even more!

Last evaluated Aug 19, 2026
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