Retrospace

Retrospace is a narrative-driven space horror game set aboard Aurora 5, a city-sized space station swallowed by a sentient black hole. In 2177, humanity’s last hope is the AURORA fleet, a convoy of stations searching for a new home. During the century-long mission, humans sleep while robots, androids and chosen janitors guard them. After Aurora 5 is pulled off course, its corridors fill with mutants and the station jumps between two time periods. You play a nameless janitor searching for answers and a way out.

Survive Aurora 5

Aurora 5 is a large, interconnected station with secrets, hidden areas, alternate routes and shortcuts that connect newly discovered areas to places you have visited before. You can return to a mostly peaceful central hub. Weird animal and plant hybrids roam the corridors, and enemies differ in their behaviours, abilities and weaknesses. You learn how they act and adapt your approach, while also dealing with environmental hazards and security systems that can be turned into traps or unlikely allies.

Choose your approach

You can sneak past enemies, hack systems, create diversions, lure foes into traps, find hidden routes or fight. Obstacles have multiple solutions, and you can avoid conflict entirely, set traps or use the station’s interconnected systems and hazards to your advantage.

Mutamods and cloning

Mutamods unlock mutations that improve stealth, combat, exploration and mobility, but may also cause unexpected side effects, some of them irreversible. Death is part of the journey: Aurora can create an unlimited number of clones, but repeated resurrection can lead to severe cloning degenerations. You can recover gear from your previous self after dying.

Disco-punk space horror

The game combines retro-futurism, cosmic horror, dark humor and exploration. Its setting includes a station caught in a time loop, mutants in the corridors and a nameless janitor trying to escape the void and its cosmic madness.