Endless Sky is a 2D space trade and combat game Inspired by the classic Escape Velocity series. You start out as the captain of a small spaceship and you can choose what to do from there. The game includes a great plot and many missions Minors, but you can choose whether you want to play through the plot or strike out yourself as a merchant, bounty hunter, or scout.
Endless Sky is free, open source and cross-platform (Windows, Mac and Linux). Over time, the game universe will expand as contributors add new missions, story lines, alien species, places to explore, sound effects, and artwork.
About Endless Sky
You can earn money transporting passengers or cargo, escorting convoys, hunting bounties or looting and capturing enemy ships. You can also fight a civil war or ignore the plot and just enjoy exploring the galaxy and blowing up pirates.
Fortunately, there are hundreds of different 'teams' (weapons, engines, power generators, cooling systems and much more) that you can buy to upgrade your ship.
The main story line takes around 8-16 hours to play. The galaxy contains hundreds of star systems and planets, and several alien species with their own unique technologies.
You can choose from over fifty ships and several hundred ship upgrades. The system allows anyone with a text editor and graphics program to create new ships, weapons or missions and the galaxy editor can be used to add new star systems and planets.
Besides all this, it is possible to add add-ons to the game which you can download from the following web.
Minimum requirements to run on Linux
- Memory: 350 MB RAM
- Graphics card: OpenGL 3.0
- Hard disk: 65 MB available space
Recommended requirements for running on Linux
- Memory: 750 MB RAM
- Graphics card: OpenGL 3.3
- Hard disk: 170 MB available space
How to install in Endless Sky in Ubuntu and derivatives?
To install from this game on our system, we can do it by different methods so you can choose the one you like.
Install from deb package
The first method we can use to install is from a deb package. We are going to download this with the help of the wget command as follows.
64-bit system users are going to run the following command in a terminal:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/endless-sky/endless-sky-data_0.9.8-1_all.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/endless-sky/endless-sky_0.9.8-1+b1_amd64.deb
Now for those who are users of 32-bit systems, what they are going to execute is the following:
wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/endless-sky/endless-sky_0.9.8-1+b1_i386.deb wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/endless-sky/endless-sky-data_0.9.8-1_all.deb
Once the packages have been downloaded, we are going to install them with our preferred package manager or from the terminal with the following command:
sudo dpkg -i endless-sky*.deb
And we solve any dependency with the following command:
sudo apt -f install
Installation from FlatHub
The second method we have to install this game on our system is with the help of Flatpak packages. Hence they must have the support to install these types of packages on their system.
The installation will be carried out from a terminal by executing the following command:
flatpak install flathub io.github.EndlessSky.endless-sky
And ready with it, you can run this game on your system. They just have to look for the launcher in their application menu.
In case of not finding the launcher, you can run the game from the terminal by executing the following command:
flatpak run io.github.EndlessSky.endless-sky
Installation from Steam
Finally, the last method with which we can install Endless Sky on our system is by adding the game from Steam.
So that The only requirement we must have is to already have the Steam client installed on our system.
We can search for the game within the Steam client to add it to our account or go to following link and add it from the web browser.
Finally, We just have to download and Steam will take care of the installation. At the end of this, we can launch the game to start enjoying it.