Defect overview

Overview

Defect comes from Three Phase Interactive Pty Ltd and is published by Three Phase Interactive Pty Ltd. It arrived on Steam on Jul 28, 2016, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Defect's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 05:45:24 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 74% positive across 57 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Defect is available in 6 languages including:

5 regional rating boards including esrb, pegi, usk, oflc, and dejus

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Defect has sold up to 3,417 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $37,540. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Defect overview details

Defect combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

As a lowly captain on a dead-end planet, you must build a ship, complete a mission and wave it goodbye when your crew defects to the other side. Then design a new ship to hunt down those mutinous traitors in an endless cycle of punishment and revenge. Don't make your designs too good, because odds are you'll be fighting them pretty soon. Unprecedented freedom of creation - Create the most powerful ship in the galaxy piece by piece, with more than 180 components available and many more to come. Exploit your designs - Create the perfect design to complete the mission, but remember to build in a weakness you can exploit later when your crew inevitably turns against you. Epic scale - Unlimited combinations available from tiny fighters up to battle stations the size of a small moon. Fight your friends' ships - Upload your successful ships and take on the best designs the community has to offer. Dynamic Music System - Compose a distinct musical theme for your ship based on the components used to build it. Shipyard The game has two phases: Construction and combat. The construction phase involves placing a power core that determines the size of the ship that can be built, and then adding a selection of ship components. These can be placed, scaled and rotated in any arrangement and will operate according to game rules/physics, affording you a high degree of creativity. Ship components have a range of stats and behaviors based on their main function. There are three main visual styles; TriStage components are very industrial and mass produced, SSN is a streamlined vision of the…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Defect is listed as a game with $5.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Action, Indie, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 12 September 2026 - 05:45:24 UTC, a tracked peak of 2, and 74% positive reviews.

Overview tags

StrategyActionIndie2DSci-fiSpace

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Support and legal notes

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