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Spaceward Ho!

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4.4
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App Age
13y 9m
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Last Update
Feb 21, 2021

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4.41
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Number of Ratings (Voted)
169
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App Age
13y 9m
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Price
$5
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Number of Screenshots
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Spaceward Ho!
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Spaceward Ho! is a strategic game of awesome scope. You control the entire military and economy of a spacefaring race. Your goal: explore and colonize the galaxy. Unfortunately, you are not alone. Alien enemies bent on galactic conquest will oppose your expansion. You fight them by developing new technologies and expanding your empire, or you can ally with them to turn enemies into friends. Terraform newly discovered worlds or mine their natural resources. Maneuver your starship fleets, both in defense of your own systems and in offensive strikes against the evil aliens. Your strategic decisions will determine the fate of the galaxy. Based on the original Mac/PC/Palm game and updated for iOS. For new players, read the Help file and also watch the tutorial video online. Please contact us on Twitter @SpacewardHo or Our Website, or send us email.}
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Rating
4.4
169 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Makosuke
02 Nov, 2025
5
This app hasn’t been updated in nearly a decade, but it still runs nearly perfectly on a modern iPad, and even on a Mac. It handles being resized just fine, although in a perfect world it would return to the Mac (the proper Mac version is PPC only so hasn’t been usable in decades) with a more flexible layout designed for a bigger screen. The game plays exactly like I loved it back in the 90s, feels completely natural on a touchscreen—probably better than with a mouse!—and even includes the Easter eggs like special hats that appear on holidays. The only bugs I’ve ever encountered are very rare and only annoyances—inability to tap on things—and quickly solved by restarting the app. For old-schools have noticed only two differences, one good and two negative but cosmetic. The good is that if you set a fleet to scrap at the same time as evacuating a planet, it no longer dumps the metal on the abandoned planet, which never made sense. The bad is that aging ships no longer start to look rusty and old. The other negative one is more a UI change than problem; zooming in and out are super fluid and natural, but while the old desktop version. Would eventually shrink the planet icons down to mini sizes at distant zoom, the min icon size here is relatively large so with big galaxies the “big picture” view looks cluttered and confusing instead of expansive. It’d be nice to have it continue to zoom out instead. The one thing I miss is save-scumming; if you’re doing a massive galaxy a game can take many hours to complete, and there are two issues: One, if I make a stupid UI mistake like forget to set a colony ship to delayed arrival, it can literally end a tight game I’m 3 hours into, with absolutely no takebacks. That is, frankly, not fun, especially since the delayed arrival controls are a bit finicky. And two, sometimes I get an interesting situation but make some bad decision early on that ends up with a loss, and I’m always REALLY curious if the game was winnable had I taken a different strategy, but there’s now no way to find out. I really miss that.
Waltlaw
16 Jan, 2025
5
I’ve played this game since the 80s, and hope to play it in my 80s.
Codewarrior1
04 Jan, 2025
5
Really enjoy the game. The original game designers should know that their efforts have brought fun and relaxation into likely thousands of people’s lives. Well done and thank you!
wadedidit
11 Sep, 2024
5
I played this on my brother’s apple Mac 35-40 years ago and I still enjoy the game.
Carole fan
25 Jan, 2023
5
i’ve been playing this game for 30 years. it still manages to be an excellent game every time.
Gousha
09 Apr, 2021
4
This is most of what I loved from the Delta Tao game we had back in the 1990s. I’ve had a blast playing it on my iPad hundreds of times. Alas, it appears to be abandoned. The game crashes outright on iOS 14 due to new security checks, and the listed support page for Ariton Software is gone. I am sad to see this end, and I’d love to see it updated again, but I’m not holding out much hope.
J2Photo
22 Nov, 2020
5
I first started playing this game on my Macintosh SE/LC II back in the early 90’s and it’s still enjoyable. A classic! Now if I could only find Sky Shadow for iOS I’d be all set.
Gazzyttt
26 Aug, 2020
2
I loved this game when I was younger but the experience and playability on iPhone is only a few notches above terrible. Granted the UI is limited by the amount of screen space, but this could’ve been done much better. I expected MUCH more for the money.
nexus6gs [ve3myz]
31 Jul, 2020
5
Fun to watch the autoplay mode. Fun way to fill some time in😃👽👾🤠👨🏻‍🚀👨‍💻🛸🚀🛰🌌📡🔭

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Rating:
4.42
Voted: 169
App Store Link:
Price: 4.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy: -
Categories: Games, Simulation, Strategy
Size: -
App Age: 13 years 9 months
Release Date: Mar 28, 2012
Last Update: Feb 21, 2021
Version: 1.20.4
Version history
1.20.4
Feb 21, 2021
Various SDK updates to prepare for iOS 14.
1.2.9
Aug 31, 2017
64 bit compatible! Rejoice! Plus, some other bug fixes. And fixing the accidental deletion of games after Aug 8th. Thanks to our beta testers who helped out: Benoit Nadeau, Bill Maguire, Cameron Hills, Dan Danis, David Williams, Derik Hertel, Doug Weathers, Elio Varela, Fred Bockmann, George Fievet, Joe Casadonte, Josh Botts, Kevin Shiner, Matt Short, Owen Fitzpatrick, Richard Connamacher, Richard Goldsmith, Sascha W., Terry Dunnigan, Tim Steffens
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