Adaptory

Adaptory is a physics-based simulation and base-building game about keeping four explorers alive after their ship crash-lands on a deserted planetoid in uncharted space. You must sustain the crew and find a way back home, while digging below the surface reveals challenges and mysteries that may take priority over rebuilding the ship.

Keep the crew alive

Each explorer is a distinct individual, procedurally generated at the start of each game, with their own skills, traits and opinions. You need to keep them breathing, fed, warm, healthy and happy. Their conversations and diaries help tell the story and show how to make the most of their skills in a difficult environment.

The crashed ship offers shelter, but long-term survival calls for a proper base and a resilient community. Provide places to sleep, eat, wash, heal and spend time together, while managing temperature, connections and plumbing. As the base and task list grow but the crew size stays the same, you will eventually need to automate the base.

Simulate the planetoid

Adaptory models gravity, temperature, density, viscosity and phase transitions through nearly 50 materials to learn about and use. You can generate power with solar panels, or boil water with molten rock to produce steam for generators, and direct natural gases to a turbine. Each game takes place in a new procedurally generated environment with its own challenges.

Face changing events

Random meteor showers, solar flares and earthquakes can damage your base, but may also expose rare materials, new veins or artifacts. Even when your base comes through unharmed, these events can push a crew member to breaking point or damage a relationship.

Uncover the story

Adaptory tells a self-contained story set in a larger universe. Crew diaries, artifacts found deep in the planetoid, system logs and random conversations reveal pieces of that universe, from the history of the crew’s home planet and their deep-space mission to the mystery of what happened.