About This Demo

Your own Alliance never fired a shot at you. It simply stopped sending. Admiral Edric Vance rerouted every convoy and fuel shipment to his stronghold at Greywall, so you break away with four ships and start taking the rim from him.

This free demo covers the first half of the Outer Rim, the opening sector of this turn-based space tactics roguelite. A run is one attempt to reach the halfway point, where a defend battle ends the demo. Lose a run before then and you start again with every ship, module and blueprint you collected.

WHAT YOU PLAY

You start with four Alliance ships: two Frigates, a Destroyer and a Scout. New hulls and gear come from the fleets you beat, and the map previews each fight's reward before you warp.

Battles are fully turn-based, with no grid and no timers. Both fleets share one turn order, and any of your ships can hold its turn until the end of the round. Asteroids block shots, and ships outside your radar cannot be targeted, so scouting comes first. Hover a target to see the hit chance before you fire. The Mining Laser in your starting fleet lets you mine asteroids mid-battle, but every shot at a rock is a shot not fired at the enemy. Admiral Orders are fleet-wide abilities, each usable once per battle.

The fleet-building and territory systems are the full game's. Claim worlds on the sector map and build on them, turn blueprints into ships and modules, buy more blueprints from the Blueprint Broker, and unlock Commander upgrades that stay with you between runs.

HOW IT ENDS

The final defend battle is a normal fight, and you can win it. Win or lose, the route forward stays locked and the demo ends there. Steam achievements are off in the demo.

PLAY IT AGAIN

Once you reach the end, start a new profile (there are four slots) and build a different fleet on a freshly generated map.

The demo also includes Roguelike Endless, which opens on the main menu once you capture or build your first Trade Post in the campaign. Each run starts over with four ships, ends when your whole fleet is destroyed, and in the demo stops after 10 warps. Your campaign is saved separately.

IN THE FULL GAME

The full game carries on to Greywall, then through the Mid Reaches and the Inner Worlds to the Galactic Core, where the Sehn, who came from outside the galaxy, are waiting.

• Ships from 14 factions, mixed in one fleet
  
• 85 hulls, each with its own ability
  
• 81 modules, 47 ship perks and 23 Admiral Orders
  
• 22 battle objectives on 49 world types
  
• 4 campaign sectors with boss strongholds, plus two Endless modes
  
• 35 Steam achievements and 2 leaderboards

Wishlist The Last Admiral to hear when it launches.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

AI tools helped create some of the art and audio, which I then reviewed and hand-edited. The game itself was not generated: every faction, system, and battle was designed and tuned by me over months of development. No AI generates content while you play.