Gedel Escape

Gedel Escape follows Dominic Stewart, an adventurer exploring deep space aboard the SBS-M72 spacecraft. He searches galaxy after galaxy for traces of his father, who disappeared on an expedition several years earlier. During a trip, Dominic’s ship falls into a black hole and emerges in an unexplored system near the planet Gedel, where it is wrecked.

The time loop

Gedel’s star has gravitational instabilities that cause space-time distortions every 12 hours. Each distortion sends the planet back by one planetary day, leaving it trapped in the same day. Dominic must find a way to overcome the loop and escape.

At the end of each planetary cycle, everything in your inventory disappears except items placed in protected slots. You have only five such slots, so you must choose whether to preserve resources, crafted items or other supplies needed to survive.

Explore and craft

You have a jetpack from the start and can fly across Gedel to reach otherwise inaccessible places. It uses energy, so long flights require plenty of batteries. All items are available to craft as soon as you have the resources, but gathering them takes time and the cycle can end before you finish.

Survive and investigate

You must balance survival with completing quests, since time is limited and any cycle may be your last. Gedel is full of mysteries; solving them reveals the story and the planet’s history, and can provide useful items.

There are no living organisms on the planet, but its surface is still dangerous. Robots and mechs pose a threat, and Dominic is an astronaut rather than a soldier, so charging into combat is not always the best approach.