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Stella Nova
After the Great Cataclysm, rebuild your civilization in this space colony management simulator! Dilate time according to real-world physics, play with gravity, and spread your civilization across the solar system.

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Features
Single-player
HDR available
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
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Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“My goals with Stella Nova include making an experience that is not only deeply entertaining, but incredibly stable and lighting fast on your machines. As for how that applies to Stella Nova's Early Access, this means that community feedback is vital to ensuring these goals are met.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“The intention is to keep Stella Nova in Early Access for roughly a year while I tweak, polish, and craft the game into the best experience possible.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version of Stella Nova intends to have:

- Interstellar Travel
- Inter-Civilization Conflicts and Trade
- Immersive emergent narrative gameplay
- Interstellar Politics and Resource Management
- Improved artwork + style
- User Experience and Quality of Life improvements across the board”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“I would consider Stella Nova to be rapidly approaching an Alpha state with a playable demo. This currently includes the following:

- Space station building
- Factory building mechanics
- Resource and Crew Management
- Interplanetary Travel
- Detailed Tutorial system explaining all implemented elements of Stella Nova”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“Yes, I plan on having a discounted price for folks who contribute to Stella Nova while in Early Access. Stella Nova will cost full price on Steam once a final version with all features has been released. Thank you in advance to all Early Access supporters :)”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Stella Nova has an active discord server, and I am constantly integrating new ideas from the community. I'm excited to bring my ideas to the table, but almost every great idea is born out of collaboration with others. I want to deeply involve community feedback in the development of this title. ”
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About This Game

The solar system used to be sprawling with interstellar life, but the Great Cataclysm could never have been anticipated. All systems went dark. Entire civilizations were lost. Everything and everyone has fallen apart. 

Everyone but you.

It is now your mission to rebuild the once vibrant solar system into a new civilization, and reclaim what was lost.

Built from scratch in Rust by a solo developer (that's me, Dave!), Stella Nova unravels as a living universe where you are the builder, the fighter, the politician. You will take helm of the reconstruction of a spacefaring civilization. This is a unique space colony simulator experience set in an infinite procedurally-generated universe. 

Stella Nova features:

  • Accurate Time Dilating Astrophysics Engine

    • Stella Nova features a living and breathing universe with thousands of dynamic objects visible and adhering to real n-body orbital physics. A unique aspect of the rendering engine built from scratch is that the player has control over the flow of time, dilating and compressing the flow of time at will.

  • Complex Modular Station Construction

    • Create stations which are little factories that you will develop to automatically manufacture resources, with the help of your citizens, that is :)

  • Colony Management

    • Assign citizens to attend to various tasks to support the wellbeing of your colony. You just give them an assignment, and they do the work!

  • Emergent Storytelling 

    • Featuring an emergent storyteller that creates events in-game based on the status of your colony to drive the story forward!

  • Interplanetary Travel

    • Work with real orbital mechanics and physics in order to fly interplanetary distances on crafts powered by your citizens. Manufacture fuel and expand your civilization across the solar system.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

AI coding tools were used during development. All visual assets, music, writing, and narrative content are human-made. An alternative wireframe visual mode is also available.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 260X (2GB VRAM, Vulkan 1.1 support)
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD RX 580 (4GB VRAM)
    • Storage: 5 GB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 26 Tahoe
    • Processor: Apple M1
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Apple M1 GPU
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • OS: macOS 26 Tahoe (latest)
    • Processor: Apple M2 or later
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Apple M2 GPU or later
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
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