Alpha Lyrae Discovery

Alpha Lyrae Discovery is an open-world game set on a resource-rich planet in the Alpha Lyrae galaxy. You explore, mine, build and defend a base against creatures drawn to industrial noise, while gathering information about the planet and constructing a large communication array to send your survival experience and findings back to Earth.

The planet

The planet has grasslands, ice fields, snow, rivers, lakes, seas, mountains, valleys, hills, forests, volcanoes, swamps, deep pits and deserts. Resource deposits include stone, clay, petroleum and magma, and different resources can be mined and used in different ways. You can pump water, build nuclear power plants and large pumping stations, refine metals near magma, generate geothermal power and make obsidian bricks.

Equipment lets you alter or expand the terrain, whose features can affect one another. A river flowing through magma turns it into obsidian rock, while magma flowing over ice melts it. You can dig valleys to create routes for magma or river water. The world has no boundary, so resources are effectively unlimited and you can build anywhere, including a very large base. Exploration covers seas, plains, mountains, hills and underground mining areas.

Defend your base

The planet’s abundant resources also support many large creatures, which usually live underground and react strongly to industrial noise. As your industrial activity grows louder, it attracts stronger enemies that can drill up through the ground, making a hard floor important for protecting your base. Swamps and pits have stronger enemies, and creatures tend to emerge from these areas. Expand cautiously, gather resources and establish defenses against attacks.

Build and explore

Drones complete work, and you can make more of them to increase efficiency rather than carrying out each task yourself. The game has no level settings; players determine its mode and progress. You can play multiple characters on the same map, with each character starting anew, and transfer resources between them by placing resources on the map.