We take the colony sim genre into the future, onto a lush planet where humans are making their foothold. Characters and alien wildlife are brought to life through a rigorous simulation and the game plays out as a tug-of-war between humans and nature on a planet full of opportunities and dangers.
Understanding the alien environment is crucial - discovered resources and crafting options enable you to adapt when food gets scarce, equipment breaks and alien animals attack.



Your role / indirect control
In this game you will not feel like a commander issuing orders, because the settlers have no command chain but rely on voting if they disagree. You will get the sense that you're part of the community, organizing your group’s decisions, not bossing them around. You do this by using the Pioneer Planning Unit, an instrument issued by the Tau Ceti Mission. You will feel like a member of the group, sharing their victories and failures.

Setting
The game takes place in a realistic sci-fi setting, in a plausible future without Faster-than-Light travel. Humans landed on a Tau Ceti planet in 2238 after a 100 year journey. Over the generations, the Tau Ceti colonists lost the advanced equipment which was brought to the planet and the descendants formed simple frontier societies based on farming, fishing and trade.

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Sandbox maps and scenarios
In various scenarios and maps we explore the history of the planet's colonization. We continually develop new scenarios with different objectives and features.

Fields of Tau Ceti is a sandbox map that takes place in a primitive future centuries after planetfall. You begin with a community equipped for either hunting, farming or fishing and work off the land. Apart from an old robot, the people use predominantly simple technology, such as smithing, small scale farming and black powder.


Muckroot Research Station is a sandbox map where a group of scientists explore an unknown biome. (Work in progress)


Twinkler Island is a scenario with a team of planet explorers that have crash-landed on an island. There will be attacks by pack predators, the so-called “twinklers” which emerge from the caves littering the island. To repel them you can construct ranged weapons and build fences, but to permanently end the threat you must locate their nests and come up with a way to clear them out.


Castaways is a tutorial scenario that teaches you the game as you guide a group of stranded sailors to find food, fight 'bush dragons' and build a signal pyre on top of an island.


-The maps and scenarios are hand-made with randomization of starting location, number of resources, camp members, enemies etc.

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Known bugs/issues:
This is a management game with indirect control, which means that you're not supposed to directly command a character to carry out a task. But, if ordered tasks are not being carried out, (the characters are just standing around) and you don't know why, then it's either a bug or a feedback problem (the game should explain the reason to you). We take these issues very seriously and will work to address them whenever they show up.

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