Annihilate the Spance

Annihilate the Spance is a single-player real-time strategy game about building bases, managing an economy and directing fleets of autonomous starships. You make high-level strategic decisions while ships choose their own targets and fight independently. Set waypoints to guide fleets sent from your shipyards, and plan fleet composition, build cycles and positioning as battles shift across a three-dimensional battlefield.

The Spance

The game takes place in a future torn by conflict after the discovery of the Spance, a mysterious, ultra-dense, nebula-like anomaly. This ancient storm of matter and energy has roamed the galaxy for eons, dragging hundreds of solar systems into its depths. Navigation through it is treacherous because of extreme and inexplicable phenomena, but its riches have opened a lucrative frontier. Four interlinked campaigns follow the major factions as they pursue their goals in the Spance and its treasures, while you gain access to new units and technologies.

You learn the doctrines of the Kontaalen Armada, the united fleets of the Vaalkorei Coalition mercantile guilds and Emar's Tychon Division, whose forces use experimental technologies. The campaigns take you deeper into the Spance to uncover its secrets and fight both with and against each of the main factions.

Autonomous fleets

Shipyards produce units continuously, and each ship operates on its own, seeking opponents and prioritizing targets it is suited to fight. You cannot command individual units, but waypoint chains let you direct where shipyards send their fleets. Build a mixture of ships from across your available blueprints, exploit enemy weaknesses and adapt your plans as the battle changes; no single ship can win the fight alone.

The unlocked height plane lets starships move up, down and around their enemies. Battles can span multiple levels and shift as vessels with different capabilities arrive. Units range from tiny drones to capital ships kilometers long, capable of leveling entire bases multiple times over.

Campaign and skirmishes

The fast-paced single-player campaign contains over 40 missions, including battles against the horrors of the storm. Outside the campaign, you can play Skirmishes against AI opponents on custom maps and levels.

Create scenarios

An in-game level editor lets you create and share your own scenarios.