Hades' Star

Hades' Star is a strategy game in which you build and grow a space Empire in a persistent galaxy that changes over time. You expand your home system, develop its economy, work with other players and send ships into star systems with different objectives.

Yellow Stars

Every new player starts in their own Yellow Star system. As its owner, you can expand by discovering and colonizing planets, setting mining patterns, creating trade routes and neutralizing mysterious alien ships. Yellow Stars are stable systems where you can establish a permanent presence and plan your Empire's long-term economy.

You control what other players can access in your system. Through diplomatic relations, you can let them send ships there and set terms for mining, trade or military cooperation.

Red Star expeditions

Early in the game, you build a Red Star Scanner, which lets you send ships to detected Red Stars. Each Red Star lasts 15 minutes before going supernova. You cooperate with other players in the system to defeat NPC ships, retrieve Artifacts from planets and escape before the supernova.

Artifacts can be researched in your home star to provide resources for advances in trade, mining and combat. Higher-level Red Stars bring tougher enemies and better rewards.

White Star battles

You can form or join a Corporation, whose members can help one another and scan for White Stars. Each White Star match pits up to 40 players from two Corporations against each other in one star system, where they compete for Relics. Relics can be retrieved to upgrade the Corporation and give its members additional benefits.

A White Star match lasts five days, with time passing slowly so Corporation members can discuss and coordinate their plans. The Time Machine lets you plan future moves, share them with other members and view possible outcomes of future combat.

Blue Star combat

Blue Stars last five minutes, as the entire system collapses. Each player can send only one Battleship, and five players fight using their ship's modules and NPC ships to destroy one another's vessels and be the last one alive. Regular participants receive daily and monthly rewards to advance their Empires.