Generation Exile

Generation Exile is a society-building game aboard humanity’s first and final generation ship, an expedition on the brink of collapse. As the Caretaker, you manage finite supplies and rally the remaining survivors to build a sustainable society, restore the ship’s failing ecosystems and continue the search for a new home. You must also adapt to a strange ecological entity spreading through the ship.

Build a sustainable settlement

You plan settlement layouts and create detailed production chains to meet society’s needs. Resource distribution depends on structures’ ranges, so thoughtful placement can improve how supplies reach the settlement. You can upgrade existing buildings to increase their efficiency, repurpose resources as needs change, and discover technologies that improve structures.

The ship was intended to carry numerous Earth ecosystems, but past mistakes have left them close to ruin. You develop circular systems for the society, avoiding excessive extraction and unsustainable growth while working to revive the ship’s fragile ecosystems with the resources brought aboard.

Choices and consequences

Decisions arise throughout the journey, from assigning individual task crews to setting settlement-wide rationing verdicts. Narrative events offer focused interactions with characters in vignettes set within the ship. Your choices affect structures, the crew and their wellbeing, and determine the key challenges of the mission.

A changing crew

Characters age, form families and remember events they witness under your leadership. Their stories unfold across generations over hundreds of years. At the start of each playthrough, the game procedurally generates a new cast of characters, whose distinct skills, abilities and personality traits lead to different narratives and strategies.