The farther they fly, the later the news
A text-based idle RPG for iPhone. Probes cross a galaxy generated for you in real hours, and every report travels home at the speed of light. From ring 0 that takes 15 seconds, from ring 5 up to 90 minutes.
Open, dispatch, close the app
Your first report arrives in under 2 minutes. After that, a session takes two or three minutes and everything else happens while your iPhone is in your pocket.
The news arrives late
Distance costs you twice, once on the probe's way out and again on the signal's way back. You open the app knowing something happened, without knowing what.
The lab sifts pattern from noise. There is structure in the sample, and the recorded sequence seems to react to its surroundings. A new catalog entry is waiting.
Base times for a survey, before upgrades. Propulsion shortens the trip and Communications shortens the signal.
Plans change on the way
A mission to the outer rings lasts hours. While the probe flies, you can still turn it around, and the hazards it meets resolve on their own.
The command must arrive before the probe does. Each mission accepts one change of destination.
Every encounter comes home as a log you read round by round. Probes are never lost permanently.
Charting the dark
Your galaxy grows from a seed created with your save. It holds 120 systems across six rings, each with its own star, bodies, atmosphere, terrain, hazards and biology.
When you map a system, you name it, and that name stays on the map. The panel here runs the game's own system generator in your browser, on galaxy 2A from the screenshots.
Where there was only a coordinate, there is life
Each organism is drawn by code from your seed: symmetry, segments, biome and metabolism. Nobody else has your species. Every discovery becomes a card sized for a story or a post.
The card here runs the game's species generator. Rarer life only turns up in the outer rings.
Six months in, no module is maxed
We ran the game's own engine through 180 days of one player with Redshift Complete, five visits a day, three minutes each. Every number below comes from that save.
Dashed line: level 50, where specializations unlock
Show the data
The inner arm is free
Rings 0 to 2 are free and never expire. Redshift Complete opens the rest of the galaxy with a one-time purchase. No subscription.
Inner arm
Redshift Complete
No ads, no premium currency, no loot boxes. Nothing you can buy speeds up progress.
Silent in your pocket
Notifications start off. Turn them on and you get one per mission, with no reminders to come back.
Your save lives on your iPhone, with three local backups. There are no resets, and no probe is ever lost for good.
No account and no login. The game doesn't depend on a server.