Jitter

Jitter is a sci-fi exploration and survival game set in a mining colony and its outskirts in the Main Asteroid Belt. You play as an experimental AI responsible for maintaining a ship’s functions and interacting with its crew. You take on missions, expand ships and bases with modules, recruit survivors, fight in space and repair damage caused by enemy fire and onboard accidents.

Explore the colony

You navigate a busy mining colony on a colossal asteroid, delving into mines and cave systems and investigating outposts and nearby bodies in space. You may encounter pirates or unknown life forms as you investigate the accident that sent you on your mission.

Modify your ships

You expand and rebuild spacecraft with modules to suit your needs. Add a cannon for more firepower, or jettison modules that slow you down to make a quick getaway; crew members aboard those modules may be jettisoned too. You can also dismantle modules for scrap.

Fight across ships

You can switch between strategic ship-to-ship battles and tactical action aboard a vessel. Exchange cannon fire in zero gravity or board an enemy ship and attack it from within. Asteroids, ships and outposts can sustain realistic damage and destruction: for example, vaporizing an asteroid that blocks an enemy outpost can send debris into its hull, though the debris can hit you as well.

Manage your crew

Key characters have individual backstories, personalities and gameplay abilities that affect how you play. You need to look after them: losing a main character means game over. You can also add survivors to your crew.

Maintain ship systems

Manage the ship’s simulated subsystems by generating and distributing oxygen and calibrating and rerouting power. Repair damage from combat and onboard accidents as you keep the ship operating.