Explore and colonize a vast universe. Twenty one galaxies filled with countless stars and planets and other things await your discovery.
Start as an indigenous person on an undeveloped world. Hunt for food. Survive wild animals. Build a home.
Discover natural resources. Build mines and wells to gather resources from the land.
Establish an empire to govern your work.
Found a city to manage its buildings. Build more buildings to manufacture things from natural resources and other things.
Advance your civilization. Make space rockets to explore space. Venture out into your home solar system.
Discover exotic natural resources in dangerous environments on other worlds. Build cities there to harvest resources and send them to factories on the home world.
Travel directly to any star in the sky using a space rocket, a daunting task.
Develop technology to make starships that can travel instantly through wormholes to other solar systems. Walk aboard them. Operate their controls. Command a crew of NPCs. Lift off. Fly up through the atmosphere to outer space. Land on other worlds, anywhere, not at designated places.
Discover natural resources on other worlds, on land, beneath seas, in rings like those of Saturn, in coronas of stars, and in seas of liquefied gases on giant worlds like Jupiter.
Design unique spacecraft and buildings with the built-in 3D modeler. Make them function, with operable doors, landing gear, lights, turbo lifts, transporters, engines, shields, weapons, and more. Share your designs with others in the Steam Workshop.
Not everyone is a 3D modeler; it is not easy. The Steam Workshop offers a growing assortment of fantastic spacecraft and buildings designed by people with a gift for 3D modeling. Their work is there for you to enjoy.