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Keng's Little Universe is a strategy game about keeping a civilization alive as it grows and explores across three voyages. Each voyage is a complete journey from ancient times to a cosmic civilization, set under different rules of the universe. You guide your people through unstable planetary conditions, dangerous star clusters and a galaxy where civilizations expand and wage war.

Three voyages

In Sky of Chaos, your civilization begins on a planet with more than one sun. The planet shifts between being captured by a star and drifting free, causing wild temperature swings, while red giants and white dwarfs push the environment to extremes. Guide your people from the ancient era to the cosmic era to leave this sky behind.

In Abyss of Suspicion, you arrive in a cluster of dozens to a hundred stars, where there are no reliable allies and signs such as trails, broadcasts or lost fleets can expose your position—or serve as someone else's bait. Build an expansion-and-strike chain using five fleet types: colony, explorer, monitor, combat and beacon. Manage energy and load, seize planets, terraform worlds, research technology and trade information advantage for survival, choosing whether to hide or strike first.

In Galaxy of Slaughter, thousands of stars contain civilizations that rise, expand and go to war. They cycle between warfare, technological explosions and exploration-driven expansion. Nova bombs and quantum cannons can erase stars, while projects and alliances help determine who survives. The map reshuffles as systems become free, occupied or destroyed, until one winner remains.

Story and anomalies

Story Mode connects the three parts into one continuous voyage. As you advance through its levels, the challenges intensify: Part I brings faster AI and more volatile multi-star gravity, Part II has larger clusters, and Part III has more intense warfare. Clearing 10 levels unlocks the Endless Universe, where celestial laws and civilization fates become stranger.

Deep-Space Anomalies change the rules of a run, including star counts, AI evolution speed, and the pace of information and war. In Story Mode, they appear only in the Endless Universe, with one selected at random for each entry. In Multiplayer and Co-op, the host can choose an anomaly or set it to random. Winning a match with an anomaly unlocks it permanently for direct selection in those modes.

Talents and automation

Before each Story Mode run, you can configure Talents. Earned permanent talents activate automatically and can provide extra starting build points, complete star data from the start, higher starting technology and civilization levels, or race-specific abilities for Beasts, Humans, Humanoids, Insects, Xenomorphs and Machines. Selectable talents use talent points to shape your opening strategy. The point limit increases with the levels you clear; failing at your highest level temporarily grants extra points through Adversity Ember. Talents apply only in Story Mode.

Auto Play hands control of your civilization to the AI. In Part II it prepares each round automatically; in Part III it assigns skill points and builds projects. Story Mode also has Auto Next Stage, which moves directly to the next part when one ends.

Multiplayer and co-op

Online matches support up to 10 players in a room, with any of the three parts available to choose. The host can set a separate anomaly for each part, and a chat room can be turned into a game room during a session.

Two-player Co-op starts both players as allies, and a teammate's victory counts as yours even if your civilization has already fallen. In Part II, players share intelligence unconditionally. In Part III, both players are placed in the same alliance against the AI.

Results and sandbox

Each match ends with a detailed results breakdown. The game also tracks win-count rankings, Steam achievements and more than 30 unlockable titles. A Story Mode ending creates a Chronicle of the Cosmos with data from all three parts, the anomalies encountered and the civilization's final fate.

After winning at least once, you can enable Admin Mode, a free-form sandbox that does not count toward your record. It lets you adjust solar collision volume and planet-devouring distance in real time, refill civilization points instantly, trigger nuclear war, war, plague and broadcast events, and use God's View, Blink and Super Game Speed. Admin Mode records no game data, so it does not affect wins, statistics or achievements.