Ad Astra

Build a space-faring corporation, expand across the entire solar system, and be the first to colonize the hidden ninth planet — before your rivals beat you to it.

Ad Astra is a 2D real-time-with-pause strategy game. You start on Earth with a single spaceport and grow, decade by decade, into an interplanetary industrial power. Mine the asteroids, harvest ice on frozen moons, refine fuel, manufacture components, research ever-better drives, and push outward — from Mars to the Jovian moons, the Kuiper belt, and finally to Persephone, an Earth-like world at the very edge of the system. But you are not alone: rival companies race for the same prize, and the clock is ticking.

What you do

• Colonize sites on all planets. Every world splits into distinct sites with their own ore, fuel, water and radiation shielding. Habitability drives colony income — and rivals can settle the same planet.
• Run an interconnected economy. Real production chains: Mines → Factories → Components → Labs → Research; Ice → Fuel; rare Helium-3 from gas-giant moons. Freighters haul raw goods to your hubs.
• Research a deep tech tree. Ion, Fusion and Antimatter drives open new regions and speed up ships; tiered upgrades for every building.

• Trade on a living market. Every trade moves the price — a sudden spike often means a rival is stocking up for an expedition.
• Outrace cunning rivals. Two AI corporations chase their own goals — one racing you to Persephone, another flooding the market to crush your income.

The endgame

Reaching Persephone is no single click. Discover it with a special deep-space project, build a Shipyard at a forward outpost, then assemble a colossal Ark module by module — a vast investment of credits, Helium-3 and fuel. Launch it on the long voyage outward, and its arrival wins the game. Get there first, or watch a rival claim humanity's second home.

Features

• Real-time with pause + up to 8× speed
• ~30 real celestial bodies, incl. the Kuiper belt and the hypothetical ninth planet
• Procedurally rendered planets & ships and an ambient soundtrack
• Rival AI companies, a dynamic market and random events (solar storms & more)
• Save / Load, and full English / German localization
• A decades-long campaign

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Ad astra — to the stars.