Space Crew: Legendary Edition

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

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Keyboard Controls
By Zombra
A quick rundown of the keyboard controls, since the game doesn't tell you.
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The controls
Space Crew is not great at communicating its controls, and there is no manual.* This is a quick & dirty rundown of what I have gathered from reading the Steam forum and from in-game experimentation.

Number keys 1-6: each selects an individual crew member.
(Goes up to 7 if you use that option.)

H: send the selected crew member to the medical bay.

W: zoom camera in.
S: zoom camera out.

Z: toggle camera between ship interior and exterior. NOTE: this replaces the SHIFT key from Bomber Crew.

SHIFT: hold to look at a CCTV view of the ship interior. Use A/D or L/R arrow keys to switch cameras. Note this mode appears strictly cosmetic - you can't use other controls here. But it does look cool.

Do nothing: if you leave your game idle, it will switch between all CCTV cameras within the ship as a kind of "screensaver". Cool! Touching any game control leaves this mode. (e.g. W or left click will leave this mode, but J or M won't.)

That's all I know for now. Did I miss something? Quite possible. Please comment below if you're aware of other controls and I will update the guide as appropriate. Thank you for reading.
24 Comments
Bernye_CZ 23 Apr, 2024 @ 6:59am 
Anybody tell me please, how I can quit space map (unpause game).
Klord68 29 Jun, 2022 @ 3:43am 
there is a section in the help section ingame that lists the keybinds but your guide covers more than just the basics. i noticed the screen saver ingame but didnt know you can hold shift to do it. it wasnt listed in game. so still a very good guide.
:lunar2019grinningpig:
Yeazzal 3 Jun, 2022 @ 5:56pm 
"I know things the greybeards will never teach you!"
Solid 17 Mar, 2021 @ 3:39pm 
oof i liked the shift from Bomber crew, oh well
Ole Cranky Gamer 13 Mar, 2021 @ 10:41am 
Thank you very much!
Harmon710 9 Jan, 2021 @ 3:21am 
Neat
Hamstirly 3 Jan, 2021 @ 4:30pm 
Nice guide! Thanks!
Malidictus 17 Nov, 2020 @ 4:27pm 
Agreed. Be nice if we could, but I can live with Z being my switch key :)
Zombra  [author] 17 Nov, 2020 @ 2:20pm 
Now this is just getting confusing, so I bit the bullet and actually looked for myself!

Yeah, there is no in-game list of keyboard controls so the guide should still be useful.

I don't think anyone has mentioned customizing keyboard controls until today. :d4_strange: It's never been allowed in the game and probably never will be. It'd definitely be nice, but the game isn't complex enough for it to be necessary. Learning 3 keys isn't too much to expect in my opinion.
Malidictus 17 Nov, 2020 @ 1:31pm 
Well, I assume based on the phrasing - "before you start and you get into the start menu." Only the Unity Launcher exists in that space, that I could see. The in-game "Controls" menu has no customisation option, only a list of fixed controls. I should check the PCGamingWiki just in case they have a means of keyboard customisation that I'm not aware of, actually...