Idle Expanse

Idle Expanse is a sci-fi incremental game in which you build wealth as an industrialist by sending mercenary squads to remote planets to gather resources. You hire mercenaries, equip them with weapons and gear, and choose how each squad operates. The challenge is to optimize your four mercenary classes, squad tactics, weapons, gear, ships, technologies and other resources to grow your wealth as quickly as possible.

Deploy your mercenaries

You can manage up to six teams of five AI-controlled mercenaries, drawn from four classes with gender variations. Before deploying a squad, you choose whether its members stay together or split up, and whether they seek out and engage enemy aliens or focus on gathering resources. The game combines idle and active play, and you can equip mercenaries with multiple tiers of procedurally generated weapons and gear.

Explore the galaxy

Your squads explore 64 planets, collect resources, battle more than 22 unique enemies and uncover technologies that unlock new features. One technology lets you advance time to bring deployments forward. When you have explored the finite galaxy, you can reset and start again with perks, increase the difficulty and rewards of enemy aliens, or explore hundreds of alternate realities with variations that can lead to different outcomes.

Progress and other modes

A prestige system gives you 28 skills to invest in. You can also fight waves of enemies in Arena mode and play minigames, including one that lets you earn premium currency. The game includes offline progress and an original soundtrack of 16 atmospheric sci-fi tracks.