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Positive — 85% positive (20 reviews)
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Spaceship is a small-scale technical demo showcasing high-end rendering of the Unity Game Engine. It presents a 5 minute long sequence of narrative first-person game play, You can also download the open-source project and open it using Unity Editor to learn how it was made.
Action, Adventure · 2021 · More free games
Experience immersive first-person gameplay and learn Unity's advanced rendering techniques through Spaceship's short but impactful narrative sequence. Developed by Unity Technologies, this demo offers both a playable experience and an educational tool for aspiring game developers.
About this game
You will play a 5-minute long first-person narrative sequence: While escaping an alien attack, your spaceship has warped into uncertain space and you need to find an escape route, before your pursuers catch up with you. Roaming into the spaceship, and Interacting with holographic terminals maps, you need to find a way to land into safe space... or is it already too late?
You can run the demo using different graphics quality levels and test some graphics features of Unity High Definition Render Pipeline. Also, we provide a benchmark mode that runs a simulation of the demo and reports simple results.
If you are interested on how the project was made, you can also download the full Unity project to learn, mod, reuse, or explore the content. It is available as open-source directly on GitHub.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4460, AMD FX™-6300, or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760 or AMD Radeon™ R7 260x with 2GB Video RAM, or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1100 MB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-3770, AMD FX™-9590, or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 with 8GB VRAM, AMD Radeon™ RX 580 with 8GB VRAM, or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1100 MB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
December 2 Update - NVidia DLSS / AMD FSR / Other Supersamplers Support
Updated Spaceship build to Unity 2021.2 Added Support for Full Screen Upscalers (DLSS, AMD FSR, TemporalAA Upsampling, Contrast-Adaptive Sharpen, and Catmull-Rom) Added support for Lens Flares Note: NVidia DLSS Support is currently available on Windows buildsRead full article on Community Announcements (Unity-ThomasI)Patch NotesOfficial
Update notes for October 8
Updated Unity logoRead full article on Community Announcements (Unity-ThomasI)Patch NotesOfficial
Update notes for October 5
Small FixesRead full article on Community Announcements (Unity-ThomasI)






