Exogate Initiative

Exogate Initiative is a management and base-building game set in the near future, when Exogates make instant travel anywhere in the universe possible. As head of an international initiative, you build an underground research facility, recruit a team and send explorers through the portals to investigate worlds beyond Earth.

Build the facility

Excavate anywhere on the map and add rooms and specialised equipment as the initiative expands. Provide for your team’s physical and emotional needs, and defend the base from hostile aliens. You can study those aliens to unlock new weapons.

Manage your team

Recruit and train specialists from across the universe. Explorers known as Gaters can be human or alien; each has a unique background and acts autonomously. New classes become available as you play, including scientists who study flora and fauna, scholars who decipher information and soldiers who protect the team.

Gaters need suitable equipment, food, shelter and emotional support. Team members can form relationships with one another and mourn when someone dies.

Explore the universe

Assemble teams of experts and send them through the Exogate on missions. Gaters carry out missions autonomously but consult you on crucial decisions, and you interact with explorers as you make life-or-death choices that can lead to different outcomes. Teams can make contact with alien life and bring back samples for research and development into new technology.

Factions and funding

The game includes dedicated 4X gameplay in which you resist, defeat or negotiate with other factions. Write reports about discoveries of alien life to secure financing, earn money for investors and help the initiative grow.