Solar War

Released: Jan 6, 2015
Platforms: WindowsLinux
Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 08:31 GMT

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01 Apr 2018Developer post
Solar War design document now available
Here's a little easter present for all of you who still follow this game. I posted my original design document from before I actually started main development work online at This contains a peek at a few ideas that did not make it into the game, more details on some that did, as
01 Apr 2018Developer post
Solar War design document now available
Here's a little easter present for all of you who still follow this game. I posted my original design document from before I actually started main development work online at This contains a peek at a few ideas that did not make it into the game, more details on some that did, as
20 Sep 2016Developer post
Solar War 1.14b released
Just a tiny fix for a problem recently reported. Turns out the game wanted to look up keys in data that was not yet loaded at that time. Which is bad. I hope not too many of you actually ran into this. Bugfixes Fixed a crash when hitting keys on the "Loading" startup screen
Just a tiny fix for a problem recently reported. Turns out the game wanted to look up keys in data that was not yet loaded at that time. Which is bad. I hope not too many of you actually ran into this.
Bugfixes
Fixed a crash when hitting keys on the "Loading" startup screen
Original post
20 Sep 2016Developer post
Solar War 1.14b released
Just a tiny fix for a problem recently reported. Turns out the game wanted to look up keys in data that was not yet loaded at that time. Which is bad. I hope not too many of you actually ran into this. Bugfixes Fixed a crash when hitting keys on the "Loading" startup screen
Just a tiny fix for a problem recently reported. Turns out the game wanted to look up keys in data that was not yet loaded at that time. Which is bad. I hope not too many of you actually ran into this.
Bugfixes
Fixed a crash when hitting keys on the "Loading" startup screen
Original post
31 Oct 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.14a released
Bugfixes Fixed ships escaped from battle being unable to act on their next battle Added missing tech descriptions
Bugfixes
Fixed ships escaped from battle being unable to act on their next battle
Added missing tech descriptions
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31 Oct 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.14a released
Bugfixes Fixed ships escaped from battle being unable to act on their next battle Added missing tech descriptions
Bugfixes
Fixed ships escaped from battle being unable to act on their next battle
Added missing tech descriptions
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23 Oct 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.14 released
Enhancements Interface and battle sound effects Added partial resource recovery from destroyed ships (gated by tech) Bugfixes Display of resource gains for planets is now more precise
Enhancements
Interface and battle sound effects
Added partial resource recovery from destroyed ships (gated by tech)
Bugfixes
Display of resource gains for planets is now more precise
Original post
23 Oct 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.14 released
Enhancements Interface and battle sound effects Added partial resource recovery from destroyed ships (gated by tech) Bugfixes Display of resource gains for planets is now more precise
Enhancements
Interface and battle sound effects
Added partial resource recovery from destroyed ships (gated by tech)
Bugfixes
Display of resource gains for planets is now more precise
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15 Mar 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.13a released
Bugfixes Fixed the problem where base commanders killed off in an attack remained available for the attacker until reload Fixed base commanders not being unassigned when you manually demolished a base Fixed the base commander button appearing when you only had fleets in orbit of
Bugfixes
Fixed the problem where base commanders killed off in an attack remained available for the attacker until reload
Fixed base commanders not being unassigned when you manually demolished a base
Fixed the base commander button appearing when you only had fleets in orbit of a world
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15 Mar 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.13a released
Bugfixes Fixed the problem where base commanders killed off in an attack remained available for the attacker until reload Fixed base commanders not being unassigned when you manually demolished a base Fixed the base commander button appearing when you only had fleets in orbit of
Bugfixes
Fixed the problem where base commanders killed off in an attack remained available for the attacker until reload
Fixed base commanders not being unassigned when you manually demolished a base
Fixed the base commander button appearing when you only had fleets in orbit of a world
Original post
07 Mar 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.13 released
Enhancements Added base commander slots to colonies, providing various bonuses to that colony Officers assigned to any slot now have their free daily experience gain increased by 50% Ships spawned by a certain event chain now get proper names Bugfixes Skill gains from free experi
Enhancements
Added base commander slots to colonies, providing various bonuses to that colony
Officers assigned to any slot now have their free daily experience gain increased by 50%
Ships spawned by a certain event chain now get proper names
Bugfixes
Skill gains from free experience now have a higher chance to go to the main skill for the current assignment (like already happened for combat experience)
Added some missing tech descriptions
Original post
07 Mar 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.13 released
Enhancements Added base commander slots to colonies, providing various bonuses to that colony Officers assigned to any slot now have their free daily experience gain increased by 50% Ships spawned by a certain event chain now get proper names Bugfixes Skill gains from free experi
Enhancements
Added base commander slots to colonies, providing various bonuses to that colony
Officers assigned to any slot now have their free daily experience gain increased by 50%
Ships spawned by a certain event chain now get proper names
Bugfixes
Skill gains from free experience now have a higher chance to go to the main skill for the current assignment (like already happened for combat experience)
Added some missing tech descriptions
Original post
10 Feb 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.12 released
Version 1.12 is a quality of life update focused on saving you a bunch of clicks and fussing about when managing your fleet. Most importantly, your subordinates will now highlight ships in need of your attention to you, so you will no longer have to dig through so many dull ship
Version 1.12 is a quality of life update focused on saving you a bunch of clicks and fussing about when managing your fleet. Most importantly, your subordinates will now highlight ships in need of your attention to you, so you will no longer have to dig through so many dull ship status reports.
Enhancements
Added various ship status overviews to the navigator, defaulting to alert reports
Fleet stats (warp capacity and fleet supply) are now shown in the navigator when a single unit is selected
Module tech requirements are now listed in the Solarpedia
Bugfixes
Fixed crash on selecting "(no character)" in character swap mode
Original post
10 Feb 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.12 released
Version 1.12 is a quality of life update focused on saving you a bunch of clicks and fussing about when managing your fleet. Most importantly, your subordinates will now highlight ships in need of your attention to you, so you will no longer have to dig through so many dull ship
Version 1.12 is a quality of life update focused on saving you a bunch of clicks and fussing about when managing your fleet. Most importantly, your subordinates will now highlight ships in need of your attention to you, so you will no longer have to dig through so many dull ship status reports.
Enhancements
Added various ship status overviews to the navigator, defaulting to alert reports
Fleet stats (warp capacity and fleet supply) are now shown in the navigator when a single unit is selected
Module tech requirements are now listed in the Solarpedia
Bugfixes
Fixed crash on selecting "(no character)" in character swap mode
Original post
09 Feb 2015Developer post
Steam Trading Cards added
They may be a month late to the party, but the set of Steam Trading Cards for Solar War just went live. Go play and collect them to get at the shiny badges, profile backgrounds and emoticons.
09 Feb 2015Developer post
Steam Trading Cards added
They may be a month late to the party, but the set of Steam Trading Cards for Solar War just went live. Go play and collect them to get at the shiny badges, profile backgrounds and emoticons.
09 Jan 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.11 released
Enhancements Added Casual and Super Elite difficulty levels. Casual completely disables time limits on missions. Info on number of crew on shuttles added to various tooltips as well as the Solarpedia Solarpedia and diplomacy windows now have more info on how council scores are de
Enhancements
Added Casual and Super Elite difficulty levels. Casual completely disables time limits on missions.
Info on number of crew on shuttles added to various tooltips as well as the Solarpedia
Solarpedia and diplomacy windows now have more info on how council scores are determined
Added -resetsettings command line parameter to skip loading the settings file
Bugfixes
Disabled crash saves while in battle, those don't work and the start of battle is autosaved anyway
Removed "not implemented" message from Combat AI screen
Fixed launch options not working on Linux
Original post
09 Jan 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.11 released
Enhancements Added Casual and Super Elite difficulty levels. Casual completely disables time limits on missions. Info on number of crew on shuttles added to various tooltips as well as the Solarpedia Solarpedia and diplomacy windows now have more info on how council scores are de
Enhancements
Added Casual and Super Elite difficulty levels. Casual completely disables time limits on missions.
Info on number of crew on shuttles added to various tooltips as well as the Solarpedia
Solarpedia and diplomacy windows now have more info on how council scores are determined
Added -resetsettings command line parameter to skip loading the settings file
Bugfixes
Disabled crash saves while in battle, those don't work and the start of battle is autosaved anyway
Removed "not implemented" message from Combat AI screen
Fixed launch options not working on Linux
Original post
06 Jan 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.10 released
This is the first version of the game released on Steam. Another big Thank You to everyone who supported Solar War on Greenlight! Enhancements Steam achievement support added (Steam version only) The main officer list can now be sorted by promotion eligibility If the game crashes
This is the first version of the game released on Steam. Another big Thank You to everyone who supported Solar War on Greenlight!
Enhancements
Steam achievement support added (Steam version only)
The main officer list can now be sorted by promotion eligibility
If the game crashes, it will now try to autosave before shutting down
Bugfixes
Fixed a crash when selecting locations that were collapsed in the navigator
Fixed a crash when dragging from an empty table in the Combat AI popup
Disabled tutorial popups while autoresolving a battle
Original post
06 Jan 2015Developer post
Solar War 1.10 released
This is the first version of the game released on Steam. Another big Thank You to everyone who supported Solar War on Greenlight! Enhancements Steam achievement support added (Steam version only) The main officer list can now be sorted by promotion eligibility If the game crashes
This is the first version of the game released on Steam. Another big Thank You to everyone who supported Solar War on Greenlight!
Enhancements
Steam achievement support added (Steam version only)
The main officer list can now be sorted by promotion eligibility
If the game crashes, it will now try to autosave before shutting down
Bugfixes
Fixed a crash when selecting locations that were collapsed in the navigator
Fixed a crash when dragging from an empty table in the Combat AI popup
Disabled tutorial popups while autoresolving a battle
Original post