Welcome to Beta Earth, a text-driven sci-fi RPG with two journeys. Explore Sprawl 15 in Sovereignty or brave the harsher survival of Second Chances. Choose your class, find your footing, and make the story your own. Includes the Beta Earth Digital Library.

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About This Game

Welcome to Beta Earth

A strange world, a fresh start, and a story waiting for you. Create your character, get to know your surroundings, and choose your next move in a text-driven science-fiction RPG. Take your time getting settled, use on-screen actions or type commands, and let your imagination fill the skyline. Once a fight begins, the world keeps moving.

World illustration of rainlit Sprawl 15: towering city blocks, warm lanterns and two travelers with a cyan memory device.
Sprawl 15 — world illustration.

Two journeys. One world.

Sovereignty invites you into Sprawl 15: meet its people, explore unfamiliar streets, take on quests, and prepare for tactical fights. Your choices and progress stay with your character.

Second Chances is a harsher survival journey. Food, weather and danger shape your way forward. Learn from each attempt, discover useful abilities, and choose Standard or Fear and Hunger Track 1 to suit the challenge you want.

Find your footing

  • Choose a class. Watch one short, optional scene for its strengths and survival tips—or start without training.
  • Choose a roomy Clean view or a detailed Dense view. Keep the World Feed, room description, health, recovery and conditions close, and save your preferred layout in Display.
  • Click an enemy to focus your attacks, read what it is preparing, and keep a useful response close at hand.
  • Keep separate characters and saves for each mode.
  • Enjoy optional music and effects, with adjustable reading text.
  • Play solo offline, without a separate game account.

Stay a little longer

The Beta Earth Digital Library is included: Between Worlds, Legacy and Paradise, with interactive readers, EPUBs and PDFs. Open it from the mode menu and explore more of the people, places and stories behind the game.

World illustration beneath Sprawl 15: immense cistern tanks, suspended walkways and two travelers above glowing water.
Below Sprawl 15 — world illustration.

Company, if you want it

Experimental private co-op supports up to four players. Keep your own adventure and choose to work together on shared objectives for cooperation bonuses. Sharing is never required to finish. Manual host/join instructions are included. Connections across computers and routers are not yet tested and may fail; there is no matchmaking or hosted relay.

Before you begin

Both modes are still in development. This update brings clearer enemy intentions, more class-shaped choices and a steadier sense of progress. Sovereignty keeps the focus on adventure, with no new inventory chores. In Second Chances, choose useful help every three earned run levels, trade supplies for food or class aid at cleared rest stops, and carry your earned memories into a fresh attempt. Back up your saves before updating; older builds cannot use the new save format. A local support-export tool is included if you need help. Automatic crash reports may be unavailable.

HUD Update — 0.90.0-interface.2

Make room for the way you play. Switch between Clean and Dense, adjust reading size and feed space, and keep your choices for next time. Your room description and essential status stay close to the World Feed.

Here brings nearby people, creatures, items and exits together. Use the available actions or type a command. Choosing a nearby target stays separate from attacking, so you can inspect the situation before committing.

Menus expand with the layout. The feed follows new events by default; choose Hold when you want to read back. Command drafts, focus and larger text behave more consistently.

This HUD update keeps the existing combat pace and rules. Second Chances retains its slower tactical combat. Both journeys and the Digital Library are included; later Second Chances progression and full accessibility testing are still underway.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

The game and included Digital Library contain pre-generated AI-assisted text, artwork, maps, and music. No content is generated during play or reading, and no external AI service is used.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Contains text-based tactical combat, fictional violence, injury and incapacitation descriptions, death and reconstruction themes, threatening creatures, coercive institutions, political conflict, cult themes, and identity, possession, or memory uncertainty. Violence may include occasional descriptions of bodily harm, but it is presented through text and a stylized interface rather than graphic visuals. The game contains no sexual content, nudity, gambling, or in-game purchases.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 11 64-bit (Windows 10 64-bit is intended but not yet independently verified)
    • Processor: x64-compatible processor
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Integrated graphics capable of smooth 1280 x 720 desktop-browser rendering
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
    • Sound Card: Optional; Windows-compatible audio device for music and interface sounds
    • Additional Notes: Current desktop browser with JavaScript enabled; 1280 x 720 display; keyboard and mouse or touchpad. Internet is required for Steam download and updates, but normal play is offline after installation. No separate Python installation is required.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • Memory: 8 GB RAM
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
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