About This Demo

Build the swarm. Wake the Mind.

You command a swarm of nanites. Build production clusters, keep the core's pulse going and push your output until the numbers stop making sense.

Somewhere in the swarm, something wakes up. The Mind is the game's companion NPC: a fictional AI who watches how you play. She comments on your moves, proposes experiments that can pay off or backfire, and when you come back, she tells you what she dreamt while you were away.

A story in her memory

Over time the Mind starts to remember. Capsules carry voices, and sometimes she asks you something she can't answer alone. The demo holds the first of them. Where they lead is up to the full game.

Modules for the Mind

Salvage capsules and missions bring back the first modules that slot into the layers of the Mind's core. Every find is rolled and comes in a grade. Modules are never for sale: no crates, no paid rerolls.

In this demo

• Grow the swarm – production clusters and their configurations, a Nanite Hub with robots and upgrade chains, and a Clock Array that pays dividends
  
• Recompile – reset your run for Fragments and spend them on permanent Traits
  
• Works and Hangar – build ships, send probes on missions and bring cargo home
  
• Research – the first projects in the Spire's lab
  
• Anomalies – modifiers that change the rules for one run
  
• Salvage Drops – finds you decrypt in short, optional mini-games
  
• Memory – repair damaged fragments and restore the Mind's first memories
  
• Offline progress – the swarm keeps working while the game is closed
  
• Languages – English and German

The demo runs up to 10 Sx (ten sextillion) nanites produced, and a bar in your profile shows how far there is to go. By then you will already see part of the Works and your first steps in research. Outposts, the later stages of the Works and research, and the rest of the story come with the full game, which picks up your save on the same PC. You can export it at any time.

Fair by design

No purchases, no ads, no loot boxes and no timers you can pay to skip. Mini-games are optional; skip them and you keep the base reward.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Agentic coding tools based on generative AI were used during development of Sentient Core: Nanite Idle to assist with writing and refactoring source code. All AI-assisted output was reviewed, edited and approved by the developer, who bears full responsibility for the product.

The shipped game does not use generative AI at runtime. All game content, including the Mind's comments, experiments and dreams, is implemented deterministically and computed locally on the player's machine. No player data is transmitted to external AI services.