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About Beyond Astra

REVIEW

“Stellaris has a new challenger in ‘90s inspired space 4X game Beyond Astra.”

— PCGamesN

“Beyond Astra makes space strategy more exciting than ever.”

— Gamestar (translated)

Key Features

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Simultaneous Planet Surface and Space Gameplay: Seamlessly navigate from the galaxy view to the surface of any planet without any loading screens.

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Customization: Tailor your species’ adaptability to climate, origin, and traits, while defining your civilization’s political regime, government, names, and visuals.

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City Building and Space Station Construction: Choose buildings to construct, produce what you need, and ensure the satisfaction of your population.

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Economy: Establish a thriving economy by managing budgets and priorities, while making strategic decisions on city composition, resource exploitation, and environmental considerations; build robust trade networks and acquire shares in sectors from other civilizations.

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Military: Raise your ground units and space fleets to conquer planets, besiege cities, defend your territories on the ground and in space, adapt your strategies, and engage in epic battles to assert supremacy over other civilizations.

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Diplomacy: Meet other civilizations, use Influence to forge reliable alliances and face threats, engage in espionage, and form the principal alliance in the galaxy.

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Science: Build laboratories and research new technologies in an extensive tree to enhance your civilization buildings, armies, and ships, explore and discover the mysteries of the universe.

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Culture: Promote your ideology (Idealist, Pragmatism, Subversive) and gain bonuses for your civilization, build remarkable wonders and attract tourism and population from the entire galaxy.

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Religion: Create and tailor your cult to the beliefs and practices of your citizens, spread it across the galaxy through targeting and emissaries, bolster your faith gauge, and unlock powerful passive and active powers, enabling miraculous events.

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7 Victory Conditions (including soft power/ fight without war path): Economic, Military, Diplomatic, Scientific, Cultural, Religious, and Score-based.

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Threats and Iconic Pioneers: The game’s replayability is enhanced by the diverse crises you’ll face throughout your playthroughs and the unique character encounters, each offering distinct bonuses that unveil new facets of the game’s universe and its mysteries.

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3 Unit Types: Armies on land, spaceships, and orbital units.

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3 Trees: Science (technologies), Culture (ideology), and Religion (powers).

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20+ Resources: Used for building construction, unit creation, population satisfaction, and scientific research. Some resources are global, while others are local and must be transported between stocks.

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Ecology: Manage pollution and waste and maintain high planetary life to ensure good habitability.

About the Game

Beyond Astra revolutionizes space 4X by seamlessly integrating gameplay both on 3D planets and in space. Planets enhance immersion in expansion, exploration, and resource extraction, while also introducing ground and space RTS battles, and city-building.

Grow your starting city into a multi-system empire, manage your economy, research, military, politics, and culture, and expand your civilization through conquest.

The game invites you to embark on an endless odyssey among the stars and live your own space opera.

DEEP AND DIVERSE EXPLORATION

Each game begins on an uncharted planet, full of potential for your civilization. As you advance technologically, your civilization becomes ready to explore the galaxy, discovering new planets, celestial bodies, and other life forms. The universe is filled with wonders, mysteries, and dangers, pushing the boundaries of your civilization’s knowledge.

VAST MANAGEMENT FREEDOM

Seamlessly navigate from planetary surfaces to the entire game map and its strategic insights with a simple scroll, no loading required. Your decisions drive everything: direct economic and technological priorities, city specialization and resource exploitation. Engage with your citizens by navigating politics, addressing their needs to ensure satisfaction, promoting ideologies, and spreading beliefs across the stars. Take bold actions, from claiming a moon inhabited by Hyppotaks to constructing your Dyson Swarm, orchestrating resource transport across the galaxy, and much more. All supported by intuitive interfaces, templates, and macro tools designed to streamline galactic governance.

EPIC GALACTIC WARFARE

Engage in intense real-time battles on planets and in space. Design and command units, each with unique advantages and fully customizable components (defense, weaponry). Confront diverse threats, from dangerous local wildlife and enigmatic entities to rival civilizations. Against these empires, you can also employ indirect tactics like espionage, economic disruption, and population destabilization. Strategic coordination and adaptation are vital for your success.

LATEST TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS...

...propel the 4X Genre to New Horizons: An enormous, continuously evolving map features hundreds of visitable worlds and ships in motion; this scale is achieved through a core focus on performance using modern optimizations and multi-threading. Each planet provides instant pathfinding calculations on its surface and allows for the smooth handling of billions of citizens. Combat features physics-based interactions with advanced collision management that even allows interception of mid-flight missiles.

JOIN US IN THIS SPACE ODYSSEY

Beyond Astra is a passion project coded by a solo developer. We warmly encourage you to share your thoughts, suggestions, and critiques. We deeply value your feedback and are committed to listening.