In development · Early Access planned · PC on Steam · Windows & Linux planned
A turn-based space tactics game about keeping one fleet alive.
You plan every move, lock it in, and watch the whole fight play out in 3D. In between battles you're patching ships back together with whatever you could salvage and figuring out where to head next.
How it plays
A lot of this game is about what you can and can't see. Sensors, stealth and cloaking decide who spots who first, and if nobody has eyes on anybody, you're both making your moves blind. Getting that first look is usually half the fight.
Once you lock in a turn, that's your turn. There's no undo and no dice rolling behind the curtain, just the plan you made playing out. Nobody's racing you, so you actually get to sit back and think it through.
The grid is fully 3D, so the way a ship is pointed really matters. You'll want your big ships turned to bring their guns around, your fast ones picking at the edges, and your point-defense covering everybody else. Get caught facing the wrong way and you'll feel it.
There are 55 hulls in the game, and what makes each one tick is what you put in it: reactors, drives, sensors, weapons, all of it. You almost never have the exact part you want, so you end up getting creative with what you've got.
When a fight ends, the damage doesn't just go away. A ship you lose stays lost, a ship you capture joins the fleet, and whatever you pull out of the wreckage is what you'll be building with next time.
Every ship has a captain, and the stations on board have officers of their own. They get better the more they fight, pick up new abilities, and sometimes get hurt. If you lose one, they're gone for good, so you really do start to care about them.
The campaign
You play a brand-new TCSF captain who's just been handed the battlecruiser Gallant and a couple of frigates to go with it. Your first job is supposed to be an easy patrol out near the Mori border. We'll stop there, because what happens next is way more fun to find out for yourself.
Concept art
Roadmap
The fleet combat is built and working, along with ship fitting and all the tools behind it. That was the hard part, and it's done.
You can already play through the campaign, save, and pick it back up later. Right now we're filling out the map, the story missions, and how each fight feeds into the bigger picture.
Next we're cleaning up the combat UI so it's easier to read, then putting out a public demo and a Steam Playtest so you can get your hands on it and tell us what you think.
After that it's a round of balancing and polish, better presentation for your officers, and a proper pass on the art, effects and sound.
We built the combat with multiplayer in mind, and a prototype already works. Once the campaign is in good shape, head-to-head play is something we'd love to open up.
We'll launch into Early Access once the game is worth what we're asking for it, and keep building the rest of it with you from there.
The studio
Daniel Noel
Studio Head / Programming
Dillon Noel
Game Director / Story
Jesse Noel
Programming / UI
Nick Russo
Sound / Music
Braydon Noel
Graphic Design / Modeler
Kiril Dushin
Programming / VFX
Luz Lopez Marcano
Programming / Graphic Design
Coming to Steam Early Access
If this sounds like your kind of game, adding it to your Steam wishlist really helps us out. You'll also be the first to hear when the Playtest opens, and you can help shape where it goes from there.
