Hostile Space is a massively multiplayer online role playing game that takes place in a vast persistent galaxy. Players take on the role of a starship captain facing the growing threat of the Brood, to explore planets, mine for resources, take on bounties, smuggle goods, and fighting aggressive alien creatures. Rewards include ship upgrades, new weapons, psionic abilities, new skills, and alien technology. Gameplay is focused toward small team play as well as solo play, and combat is twitch-based.