Roadmap

What's in the game, what I'm working on, and what comes after. Plans change, so nothing under Next or Later has a date.

Updated 11 November 2026

In progress

Being worked on now

Diplomacy
Diplomacy, the last pieces
The rest of the Diplomacy screen and a few more of its rules.
Economy
Tuning the economy
Long simulated games to get wages, prices and upkeep right over a whole game.
Politics
Government screens
The rest of the redesign: revolutions on screen and more ways to stir trouble in rival empires.
Speed
Smoother frames
The last long pauses at high speed.
Ships and war
A first 3D ship
One test ship in two styles, before any wider ship art is made.
Interface
Bug reports from the game
One key packs up what happened so a bug can be sent in. Built, and being tried out.

In the planned order

Diplomacy
First contact
Meeting another species in four stages: a signal, a search, a meeting with a patchy translation, then understanding.
Diplomacy
Ambassadors who talk
Written conversations in each species' own language, translated on screen.
Diplomacy
A Galactic Council
Votes and sanctions between empires, and after that a Federation.
Galaxy
Pirates, natives and creatures
Things in the galaxy that belong to no empire.
Politics
More crises
Invasion, a coup, rogue machines and lanes that collapse, plus more situations and species challenges.
Galaxy
Travel between galaxies
A long crossing by void ship first, then a pair of gates.
Interface
Goals for a long game
An advisor, ambitions for your empire, and an optional end date with a score.

Planned, in no fixed order

Worlds
Double and multiple stars
Systems with more than one star.
Ships and war
3D ships with themes
Ship styles, and parts that snap onto the hull in the designer.
Research
Ring worlds and more megastructures
Including a structure built round a black hole.
Art and sound
Species portraits
A portrait for each of the 60 species. One is done.
Art and sound
Music and sound
Ambient music and sounds for the interface.
Interface
A tutorial
A guided start for new players.
Research
Mod support
Loading new content from outside the game's own files.
Interface
Settings
Rebindable keys, graphics presets and translations.
Release
A public build
The first build you can download, and the Steam store page.

In the game now

Galaxy
Fully 3D galaxies
Seventeen shapes, up to six galaxies in a universe, and 106 real galaxies to start from.
Galaxy
The real neighbourhood
The Sun and 142 real nearby systems, where they really are.
Galaxy
Exploring and fog of war
The galaxy starts dark. Probes and surveys show you what is out there.
Read the devlog
Worlds
Star systems and worlds
232 kinds of world, live weather, and cities you can see from space.
Read the devlog
Economy
A market economy
Businesses pay wages from what they earn, every world has its own prices, and there is no stockpile.
Read the devlog
Politics
Peoples and politics
Cultures, faiths and classes, interest groups pushing for laws, and 185 decisions.
Read the devlog
Research
Research without eras
475 technologies you can take in any order their parents allow, and four megaprojects.
Read the devlog
Ships and war
Ships and war
A ship designer, fleets with crews and supply, battles in the star system, and ground war.
Diplomacy
AI empires and diplomacy
Up to eight rivals, relations you can read, treaties, envoys and spies.
Read the devlog
Interface
Every panel redrawn
One style across the game, tooltips inside tooltips, an outliner and an alert bar.
Read the devlog
Interface
Spectate
Hand your seat to nobody and watch the AI play every empire.
Read the devlog
Speed
Faster at high speed
A game year runs in under half the time it took, with shorter hitches at speed 5.
Read the devlog