Beyond These Stars

Beyond These Stars is a city-building game about leading the Peeps, who live on the back of Kewa, a sentient Space Whale travelling across the universe. You build a city, manage its production and supply chains, and work to meet your people’s needs while maintaining a relationship with Kewa. As you travel between star systems, you explore new worlds, meet other species and uncover the shared history of the galaxy, the Peeps’ ancestors and the Space Whales.

Build on Kewa

Kewa is largely desolate and inhospitable when you arrive, apart from a small green patch by the water. You place homes and workplaces around the land’s contours, plan efficient production chains, and can reshape the terrain to gain adjacency bonuses and reduce travel times.

You can terraform the land by digging canals and adding topsoil for farming. Planting trees provides a steady supply of raw materials, while maintaining forests helps spread the atmosphere and supports the city’s expansion.

Balance the ecosystem

Researching technologies unlocks advanced goods, while your people’s needs grow and call for more complex logistics networks and mining infrastructure. Kewa’s land is fragile: over-exploitation can make your habitat shrink, and endless production can be as harmful as producing too little. You must balance survival, prosperity and progress with the need to care for Kewa’s ecosystem.

Kewa also has hopes and dreams for the journey and is more than a pet. Learning about its needs and desires helps you build a symbiotic relationship, collaborate and choose a path through space together.

Explore beyond Kewa

Kewa’s environment has useful resources but is limited in both materials and space. You can seek out other worlds and space stations for additional supplies and new resources, avoiding over-exploitation of Kewa’s habitat. Your relationship with Kewa affects how well you can predict how long you have at an outpost before it decides to leave a system.

You also encounter alien species that offer objectives and rewards, trade opportunities and technologies. Travelling from system to system reveals the galaxy’s shared history, the Space Whales’ past and the relationships that connect its inhabitants.