Red Sun Raiders

Red Sun Raiders is a strategy game about leading a clone salvage team aboard the colony ship Tarian, as it travels through the remains of a galaxy toward a dying sun that destroys everything in its path. You send clones to planets as they enter the sun’s habitable zone and try to earn as many credits as possible before each planet is consumed. Your score for each solar system is the credits you accumulate.

Salvage and trade

Missions last 30 minutes. You can harvest wood to build farms and mines, explore for treasure, find keys and gold deposits, and trade your loot for a good price. The game also includes levelling, resource management, looting and basic combat, though combat is not its focus. You can take wagers if you have enough credits and feel confident.

At the end of a mission, you must return all your clones to the gravity beam or lose them. Losing every clone ends the game. Between missions, you can sell your cargo and prepare for the next one; after the final mission, you must sell everything and submit your score.

Clones and skills

You need four clones to begin a mission. One unit of genetic material produces one clone. You start each solar system with five units of genetic material and a basic clone; you can recover more from dead aliens during missions or buy it on the open market.

You make clones by copying an existing clone, with the option to add enhancements that boost skills. Copying a first-generation clone creates a second-generation one, and the chance of replication errors increases with each generation. Each system begins with three random enhancement tokens and 12 skill points to assign across all clones. Clones can also gain skills by performing relevant tasks or opening cargo drops during missions.

Solar systems and scores

The game includes three replayable solar systems, each with three or four planets. You can play solo or challenge friends through a private leaderboard, with a high score tracked for each system.