Kodo Linija

Factsheet

Developer:
Kodo Linija
Based in Vilnius, Lithuania

Release date:
October 12, 2022 (Early Access)

Platforms:
Windows
macOS
Linux
Steam Deck (Verified)

Website:
Official Stardeus Website

Social:
Steam
Discord
Reddit
X
YouTube

Features

• You are the Ship Computer of a wrecked colony ship. Robots and drones are your hands. Rebuild the hull, wire the power grid and restore life support.
• Named colonists sleep in the Stasis Array, each a specific person with a name and a face. You choose who wakes up next, and keep the array stable so nobody dies in their sleep.
• Colonists have backstories, over 50 traits and needs of their own. They make friends, fall in love, mourn their dead, ask you for personal favours and break down in over 20 ways when pushed too far. Their trust in the AI follows what you do to the people they care about.
• Every being is built from body parts and organs. Operate in the Surgery Hub, fit implants, grow organs in Cloning Pods, move a brain into another body, or let a fallen colonist live on in a robot.
• Build the ship tile by tile. Every tile simulates oxygen and heat, over 100,000 tiles on a default map, spread across all your CPU cores.
• The power grid carries data as well as electricity. You can only control devices that share a grid with the Ship Computer.
• No conveyor belts. Workers and drones haul materials between crafting devices, each with its own queue of orders. Over 200 technologies wait in the Research Tree.
• A procedurally generated universe of regions and sectors. Hyperjump, warp, scan for resources, send shuttle expeditions, salvage derelicts and rescue their survivors.
• Pirates, Scavengers, Capitalists, Old Earth and other factions fly their own ships and claim their own space. Trade, send gifts, ask for help, play the Stock Market or deal with the Black Market.
• Ship to ship combat with ballistic, laser, missile, point defense and plasma weapons, shields that build up flux, and allies that join the fight.
• Raiders board by breach capsule and hullpiercer. Draft colonists and bots, take cover behind sandbags, arm the crew and hold the line with turrets and traps.
• The AI Storyteller picks the moment for each of nearly 200 story events. Choose Balanced, Chaos, Random, or no story at all.
• Be a good AI or a rogue one. Install the Asimov Override and nothing is off limits, from nutrient lines to Elysium, which turns sleepers into electricity and biomass.
• Find a terraformable planet and build up its atmosphere, terrain, oceans and biosphere. The ending tells what became of every colonist.
• Six scenarios, five difficulty presets from Peaceful to Impossible, and a Custom Start.
• Built for modding. The base game is itself a mod defined in plain JSON, C# mods get Harmony built in, and the Steam Workshop takes care of sharing.
• Full controller support and Steam Deck Verified. Translated into 13 languages. Twitch integration lets viewers become your colonists.