Stardust Exile

Stardust Exile is a real-time strategy game set in the Milky Way. It includes currently known stars and exoplanets with their real characteristics; the remaining star systems are procedurally generated based on the current estimated number of stars in the galaxy. You can rename stars and planets you control outside the Solar System, and design spaceships with an in-game procedural generator. A ship’s appearance does not affect its stats.

Persistent multiplayer

In the single-shard MMORTS mode, all players share one persistent universe. Compete to take back the Solar System and end your exile, fight over control of star systems, retreat to the periphery to rebuild your strength and fleets, or establish a trading empire by buying and selling spaceships and resources to accumulate credits. Alliances and bounties on pirates or other players are also available.

Your spaceships continue operating while you are offline: production ships harvest resources, while combat ships automatically engage invaders. You can build disruptors to slow enemy travel to your systems for up to 24 hours, giving you time to prepare defenses. Activity that takes place while you are away is recorded in recent-activity logs.

Single-player modes

Skirmish lets you generate galaxies with different sizes, densities, star systems and opponents. You can enable or disable the Research/Tech Tree, Planetary Outposts and Pirates. Choose a predefined mode or create a scenario with any victory condition, or none:

• End Exile: Make your way to the Solar System and end your exile.
• Quick Match: Play a small conquest game with a few factions and a low spaceship limit.
• Galactic War: Win by having the most stored resources when the time limit is reached.
• Simulation: Watch empires rise and fall without controlling a playable faction.

Systems and tools

The game includes markets for buying and selling spaceships and resources, research and a tech tree, pirate NPCs, upgradeable planetary outposts and leaderboards. You can also jump between locations in the galaxy almost instantaneously, without loading screens; images, 3D models, visual effects and animations are generated procedurally at runtime.