GridEnergy

GridEnergy is an incremental management and automation game about building a power network to support scientific progress. You start with rudimentary tools and expand from manual power generation to orbital structures that capture energy from the stars.

Build your energy network

Begin with a manual crank generator, a hamster wheel, a light bulb for testing early circuits and a study desk for learning basic physics. As you advance, build wind turbines, solar farms, coal-fired stations and multi-tier oil refineries. Later technologies include uranium extraction, enrichment centrifuges, nuclear reactors with radioactive-waste cooling cycles, and high-temperature deuterium-plasma fusion.

At the largest scale, you can use launch silos to deploy solar sail swarms and microwave orbital receivers, which channel stellar power into your grid. Connect nodes with power cables and conveyor lines, balancing the network to avoid bottlenecks. The tech tree contains over 25 technologies and dozens of breakthroughs.

Manage your finances

You can trade shares in high-tech firms in real time, invest in term deposits and bonds, or take on high-yield, volatile startup ventures. The finance systems also include dividend income and contracts. Corporate R&D offers 19 specialized grants and technological upgrades that provide permanent production multipliers.

Analyze and restart

Feed matter into the Analysis Center’s laser chamber to earn Analysis Points (AP). Spend them to unlock omni-directional splitters and production buffs. You can also liquidate your corporation to earn permanent prestige multipliers.

Achievements

GridEnergy includes 44 Steam Achievements for builders, economists and space pioneers.