About This Demo

You are among the last surviving crew of a decimated interplanetary civilization. To bring your people back from the brink of collapse, build modular stations out of the wreckage, manage a thriving crew of citizens, and manufacture vital resources. Make fuel and move your colonies across procedurally generated solar system in a massive N-body gravity simulator. 

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. The custom physics and rendering engine (WarpCore) is super lightweight, taking up less than 500mb on disk, and capable of rendering thousands of entities on screen without skipping a beat. 

Stella Nova features:

• Accurate Time Dilating Astrophysics Engine - Off-rails physics

  • 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.

• Modular Station Construction (Crossword Puzzle Style)

  • 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!

• Stories from the Cataclysm

  • Featuring 30 unique citizen stories written with the help of my girlfriend :)

• Plan Real Hohmann Transfers between Planets

  • 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.

• 6-Tier Crafting Chain ::: 52 resources, 41 recipes

  • Build automated factories for developing more advanced processed resources!
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• Localized in 17 Languages (German, French, Hindi, and Klingon among them)

  • Build automated factories for developing more advanced processed resources!

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.