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Stellar Nexus

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Every picture on this page is a real frame of the game running on a desktop machine. Nothing here is a mockup, a render, or a painting over the top. The only edit is a crop to remove the operating system’s own window frame.

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The interface in these pictures is being replaced

Stellar Nexus is mid-way through rebuilding its interface onto the command-console language this website is drawn in — machined plates, absolute chamfers, brass rules, bone text, and one continuous strip for empire status instead of eight separate badges. The screenshots below are the interface that language replaces.

Showing you the build as it is beats showing you a mockup of a build that does not exist. Each frame is tagged and dated so you can tell how old what you are looking at is.

Title screenIn development
The Stellar Nexus title screen: the game name over a wide nebula, with New Game, Continue, Multiplayer and Settings listed beneath it.
Where every campaign starts. The background is the same painted nebula art the galaxy map draws from, so the menu and the map are one place rather than two.Captured 2026-06-17
The galaxy planeIn development
A hex galaxy map on deep navy: a colonised star system at centre with a selection bracket, blue nebula clouds across several hexes, a gold outlined hex marking a move target, and the ragged edge where charted space gives way to the unexplored dark.
Seven kinds of terrain bloom across the hex grid — nebulae, ion storms, asteroid fields, star systems, black holes, wormholes and open space. The ragged edge is the boundary of what your scouts have charted.Captured 2026-08-24
Selecting a fleetIn development
The galaxy map with a fleet selected. A panel down the right edge lists the fleet’s stance, current order, destination, cargo, movement, hull condition, supply, reach, upkeep, attack and defence, plus the ships it contains.
Select anything and it opens as an instrument: what it is, what it has been told to do, and every number behind that order — in one column, in a fixed order, so you learn where to look once.Captured 2026-08-24Known limitation: a fleet sharing a hex with a star system is currently drawn behind it, so the selected fleet here is hidden under the system marker. Keeping fleets visible above colonies and systems is part of the world-plane work in progress.
Map layersIn development
A sheet of map layer switches over the galaxy map — territory, trade routes, fleet paths, fog boundary, resource heatmap, structures, and movement and terrain cost — each with an on/off toggle.
The map answers different questions depending on what you turn on. Territory, trade routes, fleet paths, the fog boundary, a resource heatmap, structures and movement costs are all separate overlays.Captured 2026-08-24
A small windowIn development
The game running in a small desktop window: an abbreviated resource strip across the top, the hex map filling the middle, and zoom, layer and End turn controls around the edges.
Shrink the window and the resource strip abbreviates rather than scrolling, so a shortage can never slide off the edge where you would not see it.Captured 2026-08-29
Phone widthIn development
The game at phone width: four resources across the top with a “+4 more” marker, the map beneath, a fleet panel peeking up from the bottom, an End turn button, and a six-item navigation bar.
At phone width the resources that need attention come first and the rest are counted, panels rise from the bottom edge, and End turn stays attached to whatever you have selected.Captured 2026-08-29

Want to know what you are looking at?

The Player’s Guide walks through a first turn, the eight resources, fleet combat and multiplayer. The roadmap says what is playable today.

Read the guideSee the roadmap