Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

The plague is coming.

It started on Earth, in a lab, as a virus called the Panacea. Nobody agrees what it was for. It got out anyway.

What it does to people is called the Rot. Where it has burned through, whole worlds go silent. Lights out, ports dead, nobody answering. That silence is the Pall, and it moves from system to system like a tide.

You can't fight it. You can only outrun it.

At the far rim of the galaxy, an ancient ship the size of a city has woken up. It broadcasts one line on every channel: THE ARK DEPARTS. CLEAN SHIPS ONLY.

You have a small ship, a frightened crew, and the whole galaxy between you and it.

The old trade lanes are full of refugees. Pirates feed on the collapse. Station clerks will still haggle with you over fuel while the lights go out behind them. And then there are the Turned. They still fly their ships and remember their names. They are calm and warm, and they would very much like to come aboard.

Anyone you take on could be carrying it. Carriers can feel fine for a long time. The Ark scans everyone, and it only needs one.

Features:

• Crew your ship from nine species, each the best at one thing and paying for it somewhere else

• Keep your ship alive room by room: power, oxygen, fires, repairs and weapons

• Race the Pall across a generated galaxy as the systems behind you go silent

• Trade, fight and talk your way past pirates, refugees and frightened quarantine officers

• Decide who to trust, who to hide and who to leave behind, then face the Ark's boarding scan

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI was used as a coding assistance tool during development to help write game engine and system code.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Pixel-art combat depicting crew members taking weapon damage and dying. Optional text-based event choices describe hazardous or violent sci-fi encounters. Top-down tactical combat featuring blood, explicit text descriptions of violent space encounters.