Solar Expanse

Solar Expanse is a space exploration and management game in which you lead an early 21st-century space exploration company. You plan rocket flights to reach planets, moons and asteroids, then mine and colonize them. Your long-term goal is to make moons and planets in different systems habitable.

Plan your flights

You schedule launches and manage their costs, accounting for the constant motion of celestial objects. Careful planning is crucial, and you can use gravitational effects to slingshot rockets farther. Deploy telescopes, arrays and probes to learn more about the system, find useful and profitable materials, and research new technologies.

Mine and expand

The asteroid belt contains many objects, some made of water and others that may hold precious metals. Send rockets to deliver asteroids to Earth or colonies, earn profits and grow your corporation so you can undertake larger projects. Contracts eventually task you with establishing permanent bases on various objects.

Build across the system

Construct fuel stations, launch sites, space catapults, elevators and entire colonies. Making moons and planets habitable takes centuries, enormous resources, advanced technologies and thousands of rocket flights. The game gives examples such as dropping water asteroids from the asteroid belt onto Mars and mining Io and Titan for resources.

Beyond the Solar System

After completing the Solar System, you can build an interstellar ship. The description says that, once the game is fully released, you will be able to explore real and generated systems, including Alpha & Proxima, Centauri, Trappist, Gliese and Kepler.