Startron is an ASCII-based space colony sim where you can mine, harvest, build and automate your way across a procedurally generated cosmos. Lead a crew of sentient cats (or dogs) as they take their first steps out and discover the mysteries of the cosmos.
Automation
Build, colonise, then harvest the resources of the cosmos on a truly astronomical scale. Defend your infrastructure from other lifeforms - but try not to endanger the locals.
Procedurally Generated Cosmos
A sprawling web of interconnected stellar systems awaits you in your own unique cosmos. Binary systems, black holes, wormholes, pulsars & more play host to various hostile and friendly locations!
Fully Customisable Worlds
Each planet, moon, asteroid cluster and gas giant can be modified and manipulated to your needs. All formed from strange compounds which you'll use to your advantage.
Retro ASCII Graphics
Embrace the 90s DOS aesthetic with charmingly retro graphics, including fully 3D environments - all rendered in ASCII (Codepage 437 to be exact)!
Ever-Evolving
Startron is an ongoing effort, with new features being added as and when - and always for free.
Startron has been designed to bring you back to a simpler time - when games had grand scope, but weren't necessarily infinite. The cosmos in Startron is large, but not so large a single person couldn't get to most of it. The planetscapes and moonscapes follow a similar philosophy where there's plenty of space to do what you need, but not so much that it feels irrelevant. We hope we've got the balance just right!
The art style was chosen for similar reasons, as we found it affords players (and developers alike) more creative control to produce something truly wonderous.
Startron v0.152 has been released!\n\nTweaks & updates\n
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- Allowed swapping between salvage yard shop and the addon fitting screen with H and F regardless of context\n
- Sky whales are now rarer (they were intended to be a curiosity, but if every gas giant has them, they\'re just an invasive species/weeds)\n
- Allowed selling fuel pumps at salvage yards and trading potron at the flora shop\n
- Moved buying calron and silird from scrapyards to exotic dealers\n
- Added specific messages to explain template placement on industries\n
- Improved performance slightly when processing clouds on background entities\n
- Pressing home now centres the camera on your ship when flying around on an entity\n
- Tracked cargo & tracked recipe now persist between saves\n
- Added snowmen\n
- Moved the bar over in one of the planet ports so the arcade machine lines up better\n
- Added contaminated canisters to dark ships\n
- Corrected the border spacing on conversation dialog boxes\n
- Lithrogen now renders as a river when it\'s only one tile wide (makes bodies of water on entities looks a bit more natural)\n
- Everybody now has a pirate hat onboard a pirate station\n
- Zipship engines now poot out s when flying vertically and s horizontally\n
- Added a toggle for showing all signs while flying around on an entity or viewing the system\n
- Incinerators now produce pollution in oxorine atmospheres just like refineries\n
- The MazeBase level end and doors now have prompts to explain what they\'re for\n
- The shopping centre superstructure looked a bit basic so that\'s been spruced up\n
- The Unity/Steam versions now support all pitches of beeps found in the native game (so the end of the self destruct sequence sounds right now)\n
- Added a shimmer effect on chronc ore, chronc bars, gomium ore, gomium bars, valuables & gemstones\n
- Improved the grass variation\n
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- Fixed the darkenstone locking itself out from being uncovered (no wonder nobody\'s found it)\n
- Fixed alignment of the right selector arrow on the build menu (it was overlapping the last character of the resonating crystal)\n
- Fixed missing TVs in one of the station bars and one of the planet port bars\n
- Fixed bridge viewer effects lingering when leaving and coming back to the bridge\n
- Fixed bubble seeds showing as planted on yards\n
- Fixed the total score count in MazeBase (it was wrong most of the time)\n
- Fixed tiles in MazeBase not updating until the player moved off of the tile\n
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu or other x86 compatible
- Processor: YesMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Resolution of 960x960
- Storage: 100 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Requires a keyboard only
Recommended Setup
- OS: Ubuntu or other x86 compatible
- Processor: YesMemory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Resolution of 960x960Additional Notes: Requires a keyboard only
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