Where we are.
Where we're going.

Available now

You can already do these things in Stellar Nexus:

• Singleplayer skirmish — pick a faction, generate a galaxy, play against AI opponents.
• Hex galaxy exploration — chart nebulae, asteroid fields, ion storms, star systems, and rare wormholes through fog of war.
• Living deep-space backdrops — drifting nebulae and twinkling, gently glowing starfields bring the galaxy map to life, with a reduced-motion option for comfort.
• Colony founding — settle habitable systems, balance income and maintenance.
• Fleet combat — six ship classes with counter relationships; battles resolve over multiple rounds.
• Tech research — early-tier technology across military, economy, and exploration branches.
• Four asymmetric factions — Terran Directorate, Nyx Collective, Orion Hegemony, Vanguard Nomads.
• In-game notifications and event cards — turn events surface as colour-coded toasts, persist in a notification log, and mid-turn anomalies open interactive event cards with multiple choices.

Shipping next

These are the next features queued for release:

• Async multiplayer (preview) — submit your turn, walk away, come back. Friends-only at first.
• Polished colony screens — production queues, building chains, garrison defence, happiness modifiers.
• Tech tree explorer — visualise prerequisites, plan a path, queue research orders.
• Combat readout — combat log, casualty breakdown, formation previews.
• Soundtrack and effects — original score and combat sound design.

On the horizon

Beyond the next few releases:

• Diplomacy — non-aggression pacts, defensive treaties, trade agreements paid in influence.
• Public ranked multiplayer — matchmaking, ladders, seasonal rewards.
• Procedural events — anomalies, derelicts, first-contact encounters that branch the campaign.
• More factions and ships — at least two new factions and a fifth ship class category.
• Mod support — community-authored factions, tech trees, and balance overrides.

When you can play

There’s no public release date yet. Stellar Nexus is being built in the open — this site reflects what’s actually shipping. If you want updates, check back here.