Gravity Break

Gravity Break is a single-player, top-down space adventure about rocket physics, interplanetary trade and a future shaped by capitalism, cheese and competing societies. You are the first human to launch in a rocket since the AI Exodus, with your personal AI companion Olli guiding you as you learn to fly. Earth is nearing 16.7 degrees above the ancient Paris Accords after accelerating trade, unlimited capitalism and nuclear war have devastated the planet. Its ice is gone, life is dying across shrinking landmasses, and a few thousand humans remain, desperate to escape but forced to stay until they fix the damage or die trying.

A human breaks away

Generations ago, your parents and grandparents were forced to produce for the Machine. It later fractured and left Earth, deeming humans unfit for cyberization and hive-minding; other physiologies were better suited to hostile environments. You break the treaty that kept humanity behind, escape the caves and crystal palaces, and find an old rocket on a launchpad. After loading a program to teach you to fly, you set out toward a glittering piece of crystalized cheese orbiting Earth in front of the Moon at Lagrange 2.

Humanity has been made redundant by AI and driven into caves and secure domes. You want to leave hard labor behind and take part in the wider interplanetary world, where cybernetic rodents trade cheese from terraforming cows on the Moon. Cheese is heavy but calorie-rich, making it an efficient commodity for travel between planets.

Fly and trade

Rocket physics underpins your movement and handling. In this 2.5D top-down game, you use simple controls to manage inertia, make slingshot maneuvers and navigate a simulated model of rocket physics. Cargo weight affects how your ship handles, whether you carry light microchips or heavy wheels of moon-cheese.

You trade goods such as Earth’s water and Moon fuel, and use the changing marketplace to pursue booms and busts or trade for stability. The economy includes production and consumption, trade events and changes to individual planetary economies. You can upgrade six systems, including weapons, rockets and survival equipment.

Societies and encounters

As you travel, you meet other interplanetary species, including cybernetic rodents, cows with parasitic milking automatons, dolphins in exosuits and monkeys with very large hats. You can also try to clean up Earth’s legacy and show that humans are ready to join them.

• Olli: Your Pocketpal, who guides you through learning to fly a rocket.
• Bilby from Mercury: A disillusioned cybernetic bilby seeking help with an industrial revival.
• Arne de la Lune: A cow whose milk fuels the colonies.
• Captain Croissant: A Martian monkey with a very large hat and an appetite for piracy.

Combat and exploration

You explore planetary orbital environments, stations and simulated Lagrange points, encountering events and other characters along the way. Aggressive enemies can lead to close-quarters combat using Newtonian physics, and the combat and narrative challenges increase in difficulty.

The game includes interactive planetary economies across Mercury, Venus, Mars and several stations. Its dynamic music changes to reflect your distance from planets and points of interest.