Ceres

Ceres is a single-player tactical space combat game. You play a young adventurer who has just acquired his first spaceship and wants to make a name for himself. A routine scouting mission becomes something more when he encounters an AI called Ceres.

A shattered solar system

Earth has been destroyed, leaving a vast ring of rocky debris. The Gate, built to connect humanity to other stars, malfunctioned after apparently linking to a star about to go nova. Gravitational waves obliterated Earth, and the Gate began connecting to random stars, bringing ashes from dying worlds, radiation from younger suns and alien lifeforms into the solar system. The region has since changed, and nobody knows why the Gate failed.

Humans and their machines persist in scattered pockets of civilization that have formed warring factions. Adventurers travel the cold wastes in spaceships, facing dangers that include reports of monstrous machines and alien creatures preying on ships. In a struggle for survival involving humans, monsters and machine-gods, the boundary between myth and the changing reality is uncertain.

Lead your squadron

You command a squadron of ships through a mission-driven story, choosing how to approach its missions. Combat uses a third-person view and a point-and-click order system. Your ships can attack with lasers and missiles, or launch hacking attacks to damage enemy ships or take control of them.

Develop your crew

You gain experience and manage your skills, while performing well can unlock special perks. You can hire captains and crews for your ships; they gain experience as they fight alongside you.

Customize your ships

You can acquire and command dozens of ship types, from corvettes to battleships. Customize them with equipment and weapons from different origins, and modify their modules, armor, weapons, sensors and countermeasures. Ships can suffer critical hits and system failures during combat.

Salvage and trade

You can loot objects drifting in space, trade items around the solar system for extra income, salvage wrecked ships and capture hostile vessels with boarding drones.