Project: Aurora

Project: Aurora is a research expedition management game set on a newly discovered planet. As the mission’s captain, you manage research facilities at the base and direct expeditions into Aurora’s unexplored regions. The planet is battered by sandstorms and covered in wastelands and ruins from a long-forgotten civilization, yet something appears to be watching the crew.

Explore Aurora

Choose where expeditions go and what risks they take as they cross hostile terrain. Discoveries can change your understanding of the planet, and not everything you encounter will be friendly. You also search for traces of the previous expedition, whose last contact was a terrifying alarm signal.

Lead the expedition

Manage supplies, expand the base and develop its infrastructure to keep the crew alive. Illness, accidents and paranoia can threaten personnel, while expeditions sent without proper equipment face certain death. You must weigh risks and make decisions whose consequences affect both you and the crew.

Develop the base

Allocate resources to the main base and invest in technologies. Mines, refineries, power plants and laboratories support the mission; without energy, discoveries and minerals, the expedition may fail. Developing the base and its infrastructure is essential to the crew’s survival.

Uncover the past

Use the knowledge of scientists and specialists to investigate Aurora’s history, its long-lost inhabitants and the missing team that came before you. The game draws on biology, geology, archaeology and physics, and uses research techniques and instruments based on real expeditions and excavations. Decide whether to follow the established path or find your own as you face difficult choices and their consequences. The mission may be a scientific experiment, or another chapter in the history of cosmic horror; the obvious explanation may prove disturbing.