Resources19
Six raw resources, eight refined, five special. Each one has its place in a chain.
How Astra Genesis plays
A strategy and management game with patient progression. You keep a colony running, you deliver to the Directorate, and the galaxy opens up as your industry grows.
Extract, process, deliver
Every game fits in these four moves. The rest of the game, research, exploration, defence and trade, helps you do them better.
- 01
Extract
Mines, wells and extractors pull ferrite, silicate, coal, oil, helium-3 and lanthanides out of the ground.
- 02
Process
Factories turn them into ingots, plates, glass, optical fiber, circuits and plasteel. That takes power, and staff.
- 03
Deliver
The Project Directorate expects specific deliveries. A tier is completed once they are made, with no countdown.
- 04
Unlock
Each tier opens buildings, ships, quests and a piece of the story. Twelve in all, from Awakening to Genesis.
What it takes to make a circuit
A chain from the game, as the factory graph draws it. Three lines, eight buildings, and a bottleneck that can hide at every step.
Circuit chain
FerriteFoundryIngotPlate PressPlate
SilicateGlassworksGlassFiber MillOptical Fiber
Lanthanides
Circuit FoundryCircuit
Alternate recipe “Cast circuit”: two ingots and one glass make a circuit, skipping optical fiber. Like every alternate recipe, it is earned through exploration.
The extraction sites
What is in the game
Everything below already exists in the game, with figures taken from its data.
Buildings29
Seven families, unlocked tier after tier.
Extraction · 6
Power · 6
Factories · 7
Research, defence, infrastructure, orbit · 10
Workforce8
Eight trades. Each worker has an output, a capacity, a wage in Scrip, and an age (young, veteran or elder) set when hired: nobody grows older while you sleep.
The first one, Rurik Voss, is the same for every player.
Research64
Sixty-four technologies across eight branches.
At tier X, an exclusive and final doctrine: Expansion or Bastion.
Fleet6
Six ships, each carrying six genes: hull, propulsion, shield, weapons, hold and sensors.
Ship fusion is in the works; its preview is already in the hangar's Fusion tab.
Galaxy5,000
A hundred systems on the arms of a spiral, five thousand planets, fifty sectors per planet. The fog lifts as you scan.
Calendar
The dates leading up to version 1.0. If one of them moves, it changes here first.
Steam Playtest
Free testing opens on Steam. Request access from the game's page: places open in waves.
Demo
A free demo lands on the Steam page, so you can try the game before release.
Steam Next Fest
Steam's festival of upcoming games. Astra Genesis will be there with its demo.
Early Access
The game launches on Steam at €11.99, for about six months of Early Access shaped by your feedback.
Version 1.0
Early Access ends and the price moves to €14.99. Your progress carries over.
What exists, what is coming
What the game already contains, what is being built before release, and what will come after.
Already in the gameDone
- Several colonies per account
- All 29 buildings, the factories and their settings
- The 64 technologies and both doctrines
- Expeditions, map and seven missions
- Incursions, defence and the control centre
- Raids between players, with their safeguards
- Counter, Player exchange and leaderboard
- Alliances
- The Compass, a guide for the first hours
- Vacation mode
- The game in French and English
In the worksBefore Early Access
- The Steam Playtest, open on 20 November 2026
- A demo for Steam Next Fest in February 2027
- Early Access on Steam, on 5 March 2027
- Ship fusion
LaterDuring Early Access, then after
- A choice of game modes, from peaceful with no PvP to hardcore
- More languages for the game
- Steam achievements
- Version 1.0, in September 2027
- Alliance raids, up to twenty players
- A mobile app
Nothing is set in stone: this list follows the game, version after version.
PvP that respects your sleep
Raids between players exist, framed by rules the server enforces: no attacks at night, nothing destroyed, and protection against being targeted over and over.
Curfew from 10 pm to 8 am
A fleet can leave at any hour, but never reaches you at night, in your colony's local time.
Nothing gets destroyed
No building, no ship, no technology lost. Damage to defences gets repaired.
Looting limited to surplus
Loot is capped by the attacker's hold and by a protected reserve: 40% of your stock, plus your tier's floor.
Six hours of respite
A colony that has just been raided cannot be targeted again for six hours.
Newcomers kept safe
No raid on an account less than seven days old, nor on a player who holds two colonies or fewer.
Warned at launch
You are warned as soon as a raid heads your way, and each side receives a detailed report.
Next step: PvP will become a choice of game mode, from a peaceful mode with no PvP at all to more demanding modes. Whatever the mode, nothing is ever destroyed. Alliance wars will only happen on a declaration accepted by both sides.
What Astra Genesis is not
A few clarifications, so you know what to expect.
No pay to win
€11.99 in Early Access, €14.99 at version 1.0. Nothing for sale gives an advantage in play: the in-game shop will only offer cosmetics.
Not a game that punishes absence
No resources that rot, no night raids, and daily quests only give cosmetics: nothing essential is lost if you skip a day.
Not a race to conquest
The galaxy is there to explore, a planet is there to share. Nobody repaints the map in the colours of their empire.
Not finished
The game is in development and this page will change with it. What is written here describes the current version.