Free demo of Genesis: From Water to Stars, a card-combining game of resource management and automation. Start with water, wind, earth and stone. Discover recipes, build a civilization, assign workers, place orders and move goods as the Witness reacts. Play up to, but not including, the Chief card.

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About This Demo

About This Demo

This is an automation game centered on resource management and card-based crafting.

This demo includes the first two chapters of the full game. Starting with four elemental sources—Water, Wind, Earth, and Stone—you will discover life, food, tools, and early-game infrastructure, gradually transforming a blank canvas into a self-sustaining, living world.

Game Overview

In this world, cards don’t just sit idly by. People walk, trees shed leaves, fires billow smoke... The world you create comes to life, producing resources and cycling through day and night.

A Unique, Innovative Way to Interact

Crafting is the core of the entire experience. It’s not just for materials; menus, settings, facilities, and the very rules of the world are all accessed through the same card-based interaction system. From the moment you start, you’ll learn to understand this world by dragging and dropping cards.

What’s in the Demo?

Begin with Water, Wind, Earth, and Stone to discover the first recipes for nature and life.

Combine two, three, or even more materials to unlock food, tools, and structures.

Watch as animals, fire, and other elements move and evolve across the canvas.

Construct early-game facilities like crafting stations, farms, and storage units, transitioning from manual crafting to automated production.

Who Is This Demo For?

Fans of automation games.

Players who enjoy card-based crafting and resource management.

Those who love building a world from scratch, one discovery at a time.

Players who want to experience the dawn of human civilization.

Place related materials together—starting with simple natural elements—to uncover food, tools, buildings, and early technologies. Some recipes require only two items, while others may need three or more; every new creation could become the starting point for an entirely new crafting chain.

At the start, the world is incomplete; facilities, shops, and the day-night cycle must all be brought into existence by your own hands. Each new card you craft might introduce a brand-new way for the world to function.

As your canvas grows increasingly busy, you’ll no longer be looking at a static row of icons, but at a living world you’ve built piece by piece.

From Manual Crafting to Automation

Initially, everything must be discovered and crafted by your own hands. Eventually, you will be able to synthesize "people." You can then entrust them with the recipes you’ve mastered, allowing them to handle repetitive production. By utilizing your organized storage to manage an ever-growing supply of materials, you can transform scattered, individual synthesis tasks into a cohesive, self-sustaining production chain.

People need sleep; machines do not. This demo marks your first step toward automation—a path that continues to unfold in the full version. In fact, the end of this demo serves as the starting point for the complete journey.

This demo focuses on the game’s initial stages, offering a full experience of the core synthesis mechanics, early-game facilities, and the foundations of automation.

The full game’s journey extends far beyond these beginnings, leading you toward the development of advanced civilizations, industrial systems, energy grids, the information age, and eventually, the distant stars.

If you enjoy the world you’ve created, please consider adding the full version to your wishlist.

See what kind of world you can bring into existence.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 / AMD FX-6300
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 530 / NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 / AMD Radeon R7 240(OpenGL 3.3 / Vulkan 1.0)
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any
    • VR Support: Not supported
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. OpenGL 3.3 compatible graphics required.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 / 11 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 560
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Any
    • VR Support: Not supported
    • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system. OpenGL 3.3 compatible graphics required.
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