2025-12-20 21:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Nova Oportunia
This update (version 1.4.5) fixes module presets and also considerably lowers evasion of the Spideraa (and some high-level module evasion bonuses). Please note it will also likely fix module presets in your ongoing run, but this cannot be guaranteed and in some cases, the game might require starting a new run to apply the fix. Thank you for reporting these quickly and have a merry wintertime!
2025-11-28 17:25 UTC · Community Announcements · Nova Oportunia
The DLC is here! Please check out the steam page:As promised, this DLC provides a new boarding-themed playable warship as a starting option. This giant dreadnought comes loaded with an army of heavy tanks, mechas & battle robots. Using internal combat offensively in the right conditions can be quite rewarding (but still risky!) thanks to the fresh boarding loot feature introduced with the previous game update.Our idependent studio Interactive Fate is also fighting for survival so anyone getting the DLC will directly support our noble cause of continued existence and game development. We're gra
2025-11-21 10:53 UTC · Community Announcements · Nova Oportunia
Changelog:New feature: player gets bonus credits (and sometimes other resources) if enemy ships self-destruct due to losing their crew (the're will be a special notification).Fast forward button will be available at all timesWeapons rebalance: most weapons are faster and better now (leading to slightly faster battles) and some guns consume less resources.Pirates & slavers rebalance: less point-defences and weaker shipweapons but more intrudersLogic: Pirates and slavers are ambushers, poor and not very stategic. It is logical they worry less about intruders, and therefore use less point-defence
2025-11-11 18:09 UTC · Community Announcements · Nova Oportunia
Hello space surivors!Shortest Trip to Earth will soon be updated with quality of life improvements, a small new feature plus various rebalances/fixes we've been working on. A partial sneak-peek:Fast forward button will be available at all timesA new feature related to boarding enemy ships Module stats updates and rebalancesCrew navigation fixed in all remaining cryosleep & garden modulesScrapping & storing modules that provide ship HP was already disabled if removing these would destroy the ship, but this did not include loading module presets. With the coming update, loading module presets ge
2025-10-11 13:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Nova Oportunia
Hellloo fellow survivors!The world has gone crazy but we are back! We can share some Shortest Trip update news soon!In the meantime, a short summary of Interactive Fate's journey so far, starting with the release of Shortest Trip to Earth (our debut title) in 2019, after 5+ years of development. Before and after Shortest Trip's development, we also created the cute graphics for Circle Empires (released 2018) and Circle Empires Rivals (released 2020). Both are very accessible fast-paced tactical RTS titles by the fellow Estonian gamedev studio Luminous, popular to this day.After releasing Short
2021-10-18 17:16 UTC · Community Announcements · [ICE] Daemsco
Hey everybody! It’s that time of year when sales come at you fast, so here’s another one! From now until October 25th, we’re a part of the Iceberg Interactive Publisher Sale. You can grab a ton of great titles at up to 90% off. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41241215/716e7990339faeb270f5a9e487a4f9c8fc4b89cc.png Tell your friends/family/cat/lizard -- you can pick up Shortest Trip to Earth at 66% OFF for a full week! https://store.steampowered.com/app/812040/Shortest_Trip_to_Earth/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1172130/Shortest_Trip_to_Earth__Supporters_Pack/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1392710/
2021-07-01 13:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
Third playable ship added to Supporters Pack DLC Shybeetle This exotic military vessel was built by the Kha-Wat, a distant Insectoid civilization known for their love of artistic chirping. The ship is built to employ the hailstorm tactic, overwhelming enemy ships with a hail of synchronized projectiles & missiles. This requires management of ammo, and regularly producing or buying extra explosives or other materials necessary for projectiles. Comes with nukes, and crew of various insectoids. In addition to the ship, this update provides a valuable update to localization, plus a fix to a notori
2021-02-22 15:36 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33318363/cbc006bc8795dfbff121937bae9c6ea535d14dff.png Core Weapon Slots Operational This regular update brings some improvements and a number of smaller fixes. Most importantly, weapon slots can be now upgraded to core weapon slots, and some enemy fleets are a bit stronger. We are still creating more content for the game. Changelog Weapon slots can be now upgraded to core weapon slots, giving +1 ship HP Small updates to make some enemy fleets stronger, including those in Old Enemies DLC Fixed builtin exotics converter slider step size Fixed zoom in and out keys Fix, fire is
2020-11-25 11:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33318363/cbc006bc8795dfbff121937bae9c6ea535d14dff.png Hello again, space survivors! Todays update expands and improves significantly modding options. It's quite technical and we won't get into details here, but we're as excited to see what more the modders can cook up. As usual we've also made a number of smaller fixes to the game. Changelog Improved and expanded modding options significantly fixed trading options with new fleets in the Old Enemies DLC fixed 3 perks that didn't unlock properly fixed smaller issues on multiple ships Connect with us to stay up to date! {STEAM_
2020-11-11 13:10 UTC · GamingOnLinux
Shortest Trip to Earth, a roguelike spaceship sim that somewhat resembles FTL but with far more depth to it has a second expansion now available. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/11/shortest-trip-to-earth-gets-a-second-dlc-expansion-with-new-content
2020-11-06 14:26 UTC · Community Announcements · [ICE] Daemsco
Hello space captains! Today we bring you something from a dark past: Old Enemies! This brand new DLC introduces 20 new enemy ships across 3 major new factions. Explore 10 additional planets with their own unique game-changing events and take command of a new playable ship - The Exception. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1392710/Shortest_Trip_to_Earth__The_Old_Enemies New playable ship (The Exception) This mysterious alien craft was excavated from a deep ravine on Mars. Its asymmetric hull contains an enormous energy weapon plus other advanced systems and technology, including an exotic gard
2020-10-05 13:17 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
As promised, we have added a new playable ship to Supporters Pack DLC, the Riggy. This Mobile Maintenance Rig starts in a bad shape due to years of rough use, but holds promise for those patient enough to upgrade its weaponry and defences. The spaceous vessel starts with poor technology, but large crew, and containers full of raw resources. We've also made smaller improvements and removed a cosmic creature (called "anomaly") from level 8 that was so anomalous it occasionally managed to break the entire universe of Shortest Trip and break the game for some players. Who would have thought anomal
2020-09-07 14:55 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
This update adds 10 new weapons/modules, sprinkled across levels, events and enemies. This means you might not encounter them every run. Level 3 quest is now optional (though skipping it remains economically questionable). We've also made a fair amount of balancing changes (generally making the runs more survivable) and numberous fixes. Please keep recommending Shortest Trip to your friends :) Changelog New stuff Added 10+ new weapons & modules Replaced more crew deaths with (permanent on temporary) crew wounds in majority of events (crew deaths can still occur due to events, but less often, a
2020-04-09 17:50 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
The Linux version is now available from Steam (and GOG, soon). You are very welcome to savour the fine desperations encountered in Shortest Trip, honourable Linuxers! And PC-preferring folk, please recommend Shortest Trip to your Linux-friends. New players is what keeps our development going. We also added a few improvements and fixed some small issues for everyone. Stay tuned for more in the future. Changelog UI improvement: Hovering resource leak warning on top of the screen now shows LEAK text directly on top of the leaking module Help panel updates: warp hand doors help pages Fixed an issu
2020-04-09 16:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Rogue Ambassador
Dear players (and survivors!) of Shortest Trip, we are proud to bring you a major update which will allow you to save & load module profiles with push of a single button, together with Scoreboard vs Self and other improvements. NB! >>This important news announcement here got accidentally deleted today, so we're reposting it. There will be also a surprise update coming later today.
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