Element Space

Element Space is a turn-based tactical squad RPG set two hundred years in the future. As Captain Christopher Pietham, you lead a crew across the galaxy after being framed for a terrorist attack, seeking to clear your name and expose a genocidal conspiracy. Your choices shape how the galaxy sees you and can affect your alliances, crew and the campaign’s multiple endings.

Explore the galaxy

Travel through a universe with an extensive history and explore seven factions, each shaped by distinct cultures and traditions. They have their own units, tactics, architecture and perspectives. Real-time exploration connects the turn-based battles.

You can recruit from eight companions, each with a unique skill set, backstory and narrative arc. Help companions pursue their personal goals to unlock their secret perks and develop their potential in battle. Reputation with factions can unlock items and weapons, while your decisions also affect your reputation and available character roster.

Plan your battles

Combat calls for strategic squad movement, using cover, flanking enemies and combining your companions’ skills and abilities. You choose when to engage at close range and when to attack from afar. Free-form movement and skill combinations support different team tactics, while enemy units and squads pose varied challenges. Faction combat perks combine with their units to change the challenges you face.

You can equip your squad with 32 melee and ranged weapons, and develop characters through their individual branching upgrade trees. Weapons, equipment, skills, perks and companions allow for different play styles across playthroughs.

Shape the campaign

The single-player campaign has 24 handcrafted levels, with no procedural content, and takes 12 to 15 hours per playthrough. An ideological system tracks your decisions and actions, influencing faction reputations, your roster and other parts of the story. Your relationships with your party and standing with factions help determine the multiple endings.

Different playthroughs can reveal new missions, party members and storylines. Extinction Mode offers a hardcore challenge.