You were born in an unassuming star system but your fate lies in

The Heavens


Carve a path through the stars, conquer asteroids, colonize planets, and unearth the mysteries of an ancient alien race as you build your stellar empire. Your ultimate goal? Chart a course to the edge of the known universe! 

The universe awaits — are you ready?

Controls & How to Play

Master your controls to navigate the cosmic playground:

Directional Pad

Thrusters: Hold the UP button to engage.

Turning: Use LEFT and RIGHT to maneuver your ship.

Mini-map: Hold DOWN to view your galactic surroundings.


Mechanics

Tools Menu: Press the V key to access your tools menu, featuring your Cannon, Fuel Collector, Settlement, and Hyperdrive. Select the tool with the directional pad.


Ore: Obliterate asteroids to collect Ore.


Ammo: Automatically replenishes over time

Fuel: When close to a fuel source such as a gas giant or the sun, equip your Fuel Collector from the tools menu and activate it with the C key.


Hyperdrive: Once unlocked, grants you the ability to traverse between solar systems. 

To Use: Equip it in the Tools menu, hold the C key to charge, aim your ship at the desired star, and release the C key.

Resource Management: Balance your resources—blue Fuel, green Ammo, and yellow Ore—to power your journey.

Colonization: Gather enough yellow Ore and land on an uncolonized habitable planet, and you can establish a new Settlement. 

To Use: Equip the Settlement from the Tools menu. Hold the C key until colonization is complete.

Colonizing solar systems also increases your hyperdrive capability.


Settlement Platforms: Platforms on Settlements replenish your fuel.

Solar Expansion: Start new runs from any of your colonized solar systems. Expand out into the galaxy to further your progress.


Probes: Collect alien probes to enhance your ships systems and extend your warp range, guiding you to the last star.

Star Map: Open your star map by pressing the V key when your mini-map is open

Activate your selected tool with the C button.

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
AuthorRE:Skob
GenreSurvival
Made withPICO-8
Tags8-Bit, Asteroids, Difficult, Gravity, Lo-fi, Open World, PICO-8, Pixel Art, Retro, Space

Development log

Comments

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You made a fantastic game. It reminds me of a game I loved on Android many years ago: Last Horizon. Oh, if you have some tokens left, you should definitely add a dark outline to the text :)


Thanks! Yeah, seeing Last Horizon videos I could see how that comparison is made :D. I'll try and get that text issue resolved soon. Apparently I could make an outline without any additional tokens so I'm going to look into that.

ok, fixed in v1.0.2

Yeah! Or space rpg4 or galaxy genom! Great job!

Thanks!

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nice, but pretty tough and at times unfair. like when you can't mine because asteroids were sucked up by the gravity of the sun.

Thanks for the feedback. I updated the asteroid distance checks in 1.0.2. Might make it more fair. I should revisit the function for finding empty areas altogether, but hopefully this helps.