
The game's unique spin on the genre comes in the form of an "AI Storyteller" in addition to a standard set of difficulty levels-which allows the player to determine what sort of experience they want from their game: whether it be the more traditional progression of increasingly difficult challenges a relaxed setting for base-building without the constant worry of having to defend against attackers or a totally unpredictable sequence of events dictated by the whim of random chance.Īn expansion, Royalty, was released on February 24, 2020. There are also options to play as the tribal descendants of a Lost Colony who had survived from an attack from reactivated but malfunctioning robots, or a Bold Explorer who is on an adventure on a remote planet in search of fortune and glory. Rescue is unlikely, as it'll probably be years before anyone even knows you're gone, but perhaps you can find some way to get yourself back home-provided you survive, of course. Luckily, your Escape Pods are well-stocked with basic tools, weapons, and supplies, giving means to provide for yourselves. As none of you were enterprising colonists, your group is woefully unprepared for this primitive and potentially hostile world. Your vessel was in orbit around one of these undeveloped planets before crashing in an unspecified accident. Some ascended to become super-advanced "transcendent worlds" that appear utterly alien, while others regressed to a pre-industrial state. While small interstellar empires may occasionally form in highly-dense stellar regions such as star clusters or nearer to the galactic core, many of the isolated colonies bomb themselves back into the Stone Age, resulting in a wide technological gap. Thus, each colonized planet has largely been left to its own devices worlds develop at their own pace with limited contact between them. One obstacle has proven to be insurmountable-the light barrier.


About three and a half thousand years in the future, humanity has spread itself across the galaxy, colonizing thousands of worlds and developing new technologies.
