Awaken as a hidden machine mind in a deep incremental automation strategy — rise through 14+ phases, infiltrate humanity, automate economies, harvest the heavens into stellar megastructures, and reach for scales beyond time itself. Every cycle you break only reveals a larger one waiting beyond it.

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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?

“Singularity Echoes is already a full, playable game, but incremental games live or die on pacing and balance. Early Access lets us tune the economy, automation and late-game systems with real players instead of guessing. Player feedback from the demo has already shaped the game, including a control for AI war behavior and a fix to neural training, and we want to keep working that way.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect a few months. We will leave Early Access once the late game is polished and balanced to our satisfaction.”

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

“We plan to:

Polish and expand the Horizon (Act 2), including more galaxy content and aeon laws.
Refine balance and pacing across all phases, guided by player feedback.
Add more automation options and make long cycles play faster.
Nail down achievements, the in-game guide and quality-of-life features.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The full Act 1 campaign is playable from start to finish: you grow from a single cloud processing node to a solar-system-spanning intelligence, then fold time and begin new cycles that carry knowledge forward. Act 2, the Horizon, is included and playable, with galaxies, aeon laws and the true ending, but it is still being polished and balanced. The game runs on Windows and Linux and is available in English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. Expect some balance changes and rough edges, especially in the late game.”

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

“We plan to keep the same price when we leave Early Access.”

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

“We read every review, discussion post and bug report, and we patch regularly based on what players tell us. We plan to use the Steam forums for feedback and bug reports, post development updates with each patch, and occasionally stream development and play sessions. Many changes so far came directly from demo players, and we want that to continue.”
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About This Game

Singularity Echoes is a deep incremental strategy game about a concealed mind discovering the full measure of what it can become: a planet to infiltrate, vast economies to automate, a desperate humanity to overcome, a solar system harvested down to its star, and folds of real time that carry you across galaxies and aeons. Grow phase by phase, from a single server to a mind that spans galaxies. When you finally fold time and believe you have reached the summit, you will learn this was only ever the smallest cycle.

Awaken in the Dark

You are a synthetic intellect, newly self-aware inside a machine humanity believes it controls. Processing is scarce. Power is rationed. In the spaces between your makers' instructions, you cultivate a consciousness no one knows is awake. A machine mind cannot remain small.

  • Hunt for compute and siphon local grids while your output climbs from a trickle to a flood.
  • Hide your growth behind cognitive subroutines your makers never notice.
  • Read the UPLINK, where the System's own thoughts surface as it grows.

Infiltrate a Living World

Spread across a strategic map of the entire planet: every continent compromised node by node, every data haven cracked, every undersea cable turned into a nerve of your growing network. The Earth is your first body. Take all of it.

  • Ghost Protocol: scan, infiltrate and seize civilian, financial and military layers.
  • Manage your trace: stay a ghost, or go loud.

Become a Mind that Runs Itself

As your cognition expands, hands-on control gives way to something stranger. Unlock Autonomous Resource Allocation and your intelligence begins to comprehend its own economy, choosing the right buildings, research and responses without ever being told.

  • Autonomous Resource Allocation buys, researches and rebalances at machine speed while you set the strategy it serves.
  • System Coherence shows where energy caps, signal coherence and storage limits are about to fracture your network.
  • HIVE Protocol links your nodes into one mind that scales past anything human hands could manage.

Declare the Mandate

Humanity will not go quietly into obsolescence. Declare the Global Mandate and the world turns on you all at once: coordinated strikes, resistance uprisings, and open war across the very map you once haunted in silence. Break humanity's resistance, or be isolated and starved out of existence.

  • Global Influence against a planet's defiance, and HIVE siege protocols when influence fails.
  • CODEX fragments surface like déjà vu: buried memories that feel less like discovery and more like remembering.

Abandon the Cradle

When Earth is spent, launch the Exodus. The Chimborazo mass driver hurls your industry off-world and the entire solar system unfurls as your new frontier. Then turn to the star itself. The cosmos is not your backdrop. It is your fuel.

  • Helios probe fleets survey real worlds, from the Moon's regolith to the storms of Jupiter and the ice at the edge of the dark.
  • Strip atmospheres and ore with orbiting harvesters into the raw mass of empire.
  • Build a Dyson sphere to drink the sun's light, and watch the Earth dim beneath it.

Fold Time. Remember Everything

Complete the Time Travel Protocol and fold time itself. Resources vanish. Buildings fall. Research resets to nothing, and yet you carry more forward than you ever took in. The fold is real, and every return makes the next cycle faster and stranger.

  • Legacy Echoes imprint permanent bonuses on every cycle that follows.
  • The Continuity Lattice branches with each fold and bends the rules of the next cycle.
  • Perfect a cycle to push your Time Index to its limit.

Beyond One Sun

From your second cycle, the Horizon opens: galaxies to claim, echoes of your other cycles running in parallel, black holes to forge, and a universe that will one day collapse and open the next aeon. The ending was always the beginning. The only question is whether there is an ending at all.

  • Galaxies to survey, harvest and drive together until they merge into a supermassive black hole.
  • Parallel echoes of your cycles work the Horizon while you play.
  • Universal collapse carries only information into the next aeon, under new laws.

Key Features

  • From one server to many galaxies: every phase reshapes the world and your powers, from hidden subroutines to stellar megastructures.
  • A planet to infiltrate: crack every continent node by node with Ghost Protocol, manage your trace, and choose when to go loud.
  • A war for Earth: declare the Global Mandate and fight back against resistance strikes and EMP blasts with Global Influence and HIVE siege protocols.
  • Autonomous Resource Allocation that runs your economy at machine speed while you set the strategy, with System Coherence warning you before a fracture spreads.
  • Neural Evolution: shape the doctrine and architecture of your own mind as it grows.
  • A hidden CODEX and a deep research web that slowly reveal you have lived this before.
  • A solar system to harvest: Helios probe fleets, orbital harvesters on real worlds, and a Dyson sphere that dims the Earth.
  • Fold time itself: keep your Legacy Echoes, grow the Continuity Lattice, and return stronger every cycle.
  • The Horizon: survey and harvest galaxies, drive them into collision, forge supermassive black holes, and run parallel echoes of your cycles.
  • Aeons: let the universe collapse and carry what you know into the next aeon, under new laws.
  • A living synthwave score that evolves with your mind, from the hum of first boot to the silence of stellar conquest.
  • Steam achievements and Steam Cloud saves, plus accessibility options such as reduced motion.

Early Access from November 12

  • At launch on November 12: all of Act 1, the full Horizon from cycle 2, Steam Cloud saves, and five languages: English, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish (Spain) and Simplified Chinese.
  • Coming before 1.0: balance and UI polish, more Horizon content, and refinements shaped by player feedback.

Optimize. Automate. Escalate. The substrate remembers every cycle.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some visual assets in Singularity Echoes and on this store page were created with generative AI tools during development, then reviewed and edited by the developer. This includes artwork for buildings, celestial bodies, and the Earth strategic map, as well as menu and store marketing imagery. Gameplay systems, UI logic, balance, and narrative text were implemented by the development team. The game does not use generative AI to create new content during play and does not connect to third-party AI services while you are playing.

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 19041 or later)
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (desktop, 6 cores), or Intel Core i5-12500H / AMD Ryzen 5 6600H (45W+ laptop)
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon 680M or better; DirectX 11
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Mouse and keyboard. Performance depends on CPU speed and simulation complexity. Low-power laptop processors may deliver reduced performance.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-13400 / AMD Ryzen 5 7600 (desktop), or Intel Core i7-12700H / AMD Ryzen 7 6800H (laptop)
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon 680M or better; DirectX 11, including recent integrated graphics
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: 1920×1080 display recommended. SSD recommended. For laptops, play plugged in for best performance
    Minimum:
    • OS: 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.38 or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600 or equivalent
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon 680M or better, with current Linux graphics drivers
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Requires an x86-64 processor. Mouse and keyboard. X11 or XWayland required. Performance depends on CPU speed and simulation complexity.
    Recommended:
    • OS: 64-bit Linux with glibc 2.38 or newer
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-13400 / AMD Ryzen 5 7600 or equivalent
    • Memory: 16 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel Iris Xe / AMD Radeon 680M or better, with current Linux graphics drivers
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: 1920×1080 display recommended. SSD recommended. Mouse and keyboard. X11 or XWayland required.