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title: "Spaceward Ho! - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "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. A"
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# Spaceward Ho! — United States

![Spaceward Ho! App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/5a/2d/77/5a2d775c-2f51-5912-ab65-f2262165ab35/mzl.nygsowxs.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Christopher Cotton](https://apptail.io/developer/christopher-cotton-naic)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.6/5 (95 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.ariton.spacewardho
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.2.9 (released 2017-08-31)
**Original Release:** 2012-03-29
**Languages:** English, French, Turkish

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id510527152)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/united-states)

## Spaceward Ho! Description
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.

## Spaceward Ho! Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/8a/9c/93/8a9c934e-2192-14f5-3efc-9df195c2a364/mzl.nkrykmns.png/960x640.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/1b/2b/c0/1b2bc0d4-8d5e-f3f2-97e0-392929b7d0c8/mzl.eevmlwaz.png/960x640.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/2d/41/d6/2d41d6c2-68c7-804c-a7de-4e8bcc013a70/mzl.gztkevtp.png/960x640.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple128/v4/b4/c4/3c/b4c43c8e-add9-52b1-44b6-cc7907ac57d1/mzl.fhmclmsm.png/960x640.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple118/v4/81/7c/6d/817c6dbf-125b-f8d0-7a6f-c4acbf3fc880/mzl.orgtngko.png/960x640.png)

## Spaceward Ho! Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 78 (82%)
- 4 stars: 6 (6%)
- 3 stars: 4 (4%)
- 2 stars: 4 (4%)
- 1 stars: 3 (3%)

## Spaceward Ho! Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Fond Memories"
I remember playing this on my Mac Classic back in the 90s, and was thrilled to see it rebooted for iOS. Clever, minimalist graphics, and a subtle sense of humor make this a charming strategy game.
Unfortunately, AI wasn’t really a thing in the 90s, and it still isn’t with this app: As with many games of the era, such as Civilization II, the challenge doesn’t come from facing an clever opponent, but rather one who controls the board. Beyond a skill level of 53 or so, the game just plain cheats: It knows exactly how many ships you have, where they are, and what strength. By fiddling with a tool that allows one to save and replay a game (something not actually allowed for in the game), I was able to determine that it will actually shift defenses from one planet to another AFTER the battle has started. So it’s basically impossible to beat beyond level ~53. 
Still, three stars for clever visuals and some nice nostalgia. It would be interesting to see what competent programmers could do with this code base, and add in true AI tools instead of being lazy and cheating. Maybe someday.
-- bentleymrk, 2026-03-02

### ***** "Still kicking after all these years"
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.
-- Makosuke, 2025-11-02

### ***** "Timeless"
I’ve played this game since the 80s, and hope to play it in my 80s.
-- Waltlaw, 2025-01-16

### ***** "Fantastic game! Have played it nearly daily since 1998."
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!
-- Codewarrior1, 2025-01-04

### ****- "Great game but if on Mac w/ Apple Silicon audio problem"
This is an amazing classic game. thankfully brough back to life some years ago.  now, needs and update to properly work on macs.

thanks for keeping this game alive. cheers.
-- The Dude (aka Mr. Lebowski), 2024-08-05

### ****- "So Much Fun, But Multiplayer?"
I would rate this 5 stars for the sheer enjoyment of the strategy against various AI levels and endless galaxy combinations, but one of the joys of Spaceward Ho! from the 90s was the ability to play against friends. I know there hasn’t been a development update in years, but allowing us to play against friends - even if it was through Bluetooth only would be a huge plus (preferable would be through WiFi). It would definitely earn 5 stars with that feature update.
-- Susi-Sama, 2022-07-07

### ***** "So, I guess you aren’t keeping stats anymore?"
Leaderboard and achievements haven’t moved in months!
-- Sempil, 2022-02-10

### ***** "Spaceward Ho! Back on the Mac."
This game is an uncomplicated explore and conquer game with a sense of humor. There's enough variety to keep me coming back. 
I first played Spaceward Ho on the Mac (multi-player, even) in the early 1990s, then later the excellent PalmOS port. This version continued that tradition faithfully on iOS, where I play it regularly. Now thanks to the M1 I can play it on my Mac again.  Thanks, Ariton, for keeping it alive and coming full circle.
-- bpsm, 2021-12-12

### ***** "Great strategy game..."
Now finally working in the latest iOS.
-- Agag1111, 2021-04-21

### ****- "Abandoned!"
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.
-- Gousha, 2021-04-09

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## Spaceward Ho! Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/united-states)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/germany)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/france)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/canada)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/australia)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/united-kingdom)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/italy)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/switzerland)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/austria)
- [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/sweden)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/belgium)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/russia)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/japan)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/singapore)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/indonesia)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/israel)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/denmark)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/netherlands)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/new-zealand)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/spain)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/portugal)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/turkey)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/taiwan)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/united-arab-emirates)
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- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/algeria)
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- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/spaceward-ho-yjwj/nigeria)
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