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About This Game

Build a home inside an asteroid belt.  Then find your way back to Earth.

A routine mining job turned into an emergency when your ship crashed.  You escaped your ship aboard your mining robot, R-01, and found yourself stranded in an asteroid belt.  With your assistant G-06 alongside you, it's time to gather resources, build your base, and find a way home.

R-01 is a 2D space survival sandbox about exploration, building, and the life forms you find along the way.  What starts as a place to survive will become more of a home.  You'll meet creatures, some friendly, some not.  Do you want to protect them?  Do you want to just keep pushing to get to Earth?  That's your choice as you work your way towards building your rocket home.

Explore an Endless Asteroid Belt

R-01 procedurally generates a unique asteroid belt every time you start a new game.  Asteroid layouts, mineral distribution, and varied terrain create all kinds of opportunities to explore and build.  Changing space weather adds another challenge to your expeditions.  Each new game means charting new routes and discovering what lies ahead.

Base Building In Space

R-01 has about 70 structures, each with its own unique purpose to help you build out your base.  While you build your base, your Companions will do the same for theirs with their own set of 20 unique structures.

Make R-01 Your Own

If you damage R-01 while working your way home, you can always build a Robot Garage to repair it.  While you're in there, you might as well make R-01 your own by using the in-game editor to create your own design.  Share your creation with the Steam Workshop and download other people's creations as well!

Meet The Companions

You're not alone for too long.  As soon as you seal off an asteroid and fill it with air using your Earth Tower, life begins to form. Your first batch of companions spawn with 11 different genome traits - everything from how playful they are, to how curious they are, to their mood is embedded in their genome.  As they grow, they'll find their mate, form a nest, and start having children.  Children inherit the traits of their parents, and when you build the Xenobiology Station, you start to understand them and can view their family tree.

As their numbers grow, they'll start asking you to help them grow their colony.  They'll eventually learn to build on their own, which will lead them to want to expand their colony.  It's up to you whether you help the companions or focus on getting yourself back home.

Face the Dangers of Deep Space

You can't stay in your starting biome forever.  In order to build your rocket home, you're going to need minerals from far off biomes.  R-01 has 11 different biomes - everything from Lava, to Ice, to Radiation, to Gravity wells.  You'll have to upgrade your R-01 in order to make your way through all of them.  45 different creatures, many unique to their biome, will be either helpful or harmful to you on your journey.  Up to you on how you want to handle them.

Just when you think you've got things worked out, you'll have to defeat three different bosses to obtain the unique items you'll need to finalize your rocket.  Each boss will be their own separate challenge, and you'll have to find the right mods to apply to R-01 to fight them back.

Find Your Way Home

Once you've gotten all your materials to build your rocket, you get to head back home.  It's a long journey ahead, but you're up for the task.

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AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

LLMs were used for language translation and localization.