Jumplight Odyssey

Jumplight Odyssey is a roguelite starship colony sim about leading your crew on an escape across the galaxy to the sanctuary of the Forever Star. With your home planet destroyed and your people lost, you must keep hope alive while fleeing Admiral Voltan and the warmongering Zutopans.

Life aboard the ship

As captain, you manage the crew’s needs, including socializing, sleep, food, water and air. Crew members eat, sleep, work and interact as brothers, sisters, lovers, friends and rivals. Their moods, ideas, relationships and incidents can spread through the crew and affect the ship, so keeping hope high matters.

You can promote everyday crew members to division officers, then contend with their differing management quirks. You also arrange corridors, set up management processes, decorate spaces and organize supplies across the ship, including the hangar deck, fridges and shelves. Resource production covers the water supply, gardens and farming spaces, while the warp core must keep running.

Survive the journey

You travel through different star systems, whose biomes affect your ship and crew. Emergencies include fires, electrical strikes, radiation and oxygen loss. Hostile boarding parties and intergalactic invaders also threaten the ship, and you can scramble starfighters to defend it.

Each voyage offers new encounters, events, characters and challenges. You learn from previous attempts and retool the ship for new circumstances before trying again.

A living starship

The game presents the ship as a dynamic, toylike sandbox, with a living crew and a focus on arranging and managing its spaces. Its inspiration includes 1970s star-spanning anime adventures such as Star Blazers, as well as the books Incredible Cross-Sections and What Do People Do All Day?. A pig lives aboard the ship, and you can pet it.