Retro Spaceship Engines

Analog future, plasma propulsion, and lo-fi realism meet in this retro-futuristic spaceship engine library.

This high-performance sound effects pack delivers 195 engine sounds built for spacecraft—both imagined and believable. From fast accelerations to gritty plasma idle loops, this library is packed with character: sputtering takeoffs, stylized decelerations, left-to-right passbys, and charged plasma engines all crafted with a cinematic sense of weight and texture.

Organized by engine type and behavior—including alien, cargo, fighter, plasma, and hovering vehicles—you’ll find clean loopables, dynamic ramps (slow to fast, normal to idle, fast to slow), and sweeping stereo passbys that bring movement and mass into play.

Ideal for game cutscenes, sci-fi UI engines, generative audio layers, or worldbuilding for retro-exploration titles.

Includes:
• Charged plasma engines, fast/slow loops & cinematic transitions
• Engine behaviors: Idle, Accelerate, Decelerate, Break, Charged, Passing by
• Vehicle types: Cargo, Fighter, Alien, Massive, Hover, Jet, Racer
• Stereo passing: Right to left / Left to right flybys
• Loopable layers for idle, slow, normal, fast, and RPM variants
• Mix-ready for Unity, Unreal & middleware engines
• UCS-compliant, 96kHz/24-bit WAV, stereo

Every sound designed to travel—from vintage sci-fi pulses to heavy fighter thrusts.
Find the true sound of the retro-future.

What else you may need

You may also want to check out our Spaceship Radio Chatter library, featuring 348 male and female vocal phrases such as alerts, warnings, inter-vessel communications, flight requests, distress calls, station notifications, human radio exchanges, ship announcements, and more.

Cinematic Whooshes & Transitions is another great fit, featuring 294 designed sounds for transitions and motion— including swipes, futuristic sci-fi textures, tonal sweeps, pass-bys, power-ups and downs, mechanical movement, and more.

Contact us at info@vadisound.com to get more information or give feedback.