Star Ruler is a highly modable 4X/RTS set in space which emphasizes gameplay customization and adaptive tactics with multiple modes of online/offline play.
- Vast, Procedurally Generated Galaxies
- Choose however many systems you desire; you are limited only by the speed of your cpu
- Rich, diverse, planets whose type, size, number of moons, and other characteristics vary
- Full 3D too much to handle? Flatten maps for ease of interaction
- Alter the Galaxy throughout the game with advanced technology
- Intricate Ship Design and Exciting Combat
- Massive ship battles fought in real-time with particle effects and directional damage
- Ships whose individual components can be compromised, destroyed, disabled, repaired, and renovated
- Ships depend on key components to keep functioning, and failures can lead to catastrophic explosions which can turn the tide of battle
- Add components that modify the behavior of connected components, such as added health from bulkheads, or faster firing from coolant systems
- Save and load your custom ships and settings to your profile for easy importation and exportation.
- Fully simulated newtonian physics
- Unique Research System
- Unique Web-Like Research system with unexpected discoveries around every turn
- Choose between a structured, static web, or a highly varied web each game
- Develop technologies that lead to different strategies, rather than simply better tools
- Easy to use interface, complex gameplay
- Govern your planets with a simple yet powerful interface to customize the behavior of your worlds
- Numerous easy-to-use interfaces which provide quick solutions to specific problems
- Customize the GUI via scripting; add new windows, or change pre-existing interface behavior
- Engaging AI Opponents
- Choose from various levels of difficulty, with optional 'cheating' AIs
- Watch for the AIs to attempt different strategies to defeat their opponents
- Counter their new ship designs, as they adapt their designs to counter your own
- Engage in complex diplomatic interaction with your opponents
- Extensive Modding Support
- Modify data files and scripts in any editor as simple as Notepad
- Use developer tools to create particle effects and configure imported models
- Smart use of AngelScript allows users to create entirely new gamemodes, gameplay, and online experiences
- All files from the base game are readily available to learn from
- Multiplayer: Co-Op, Team, and Free-for-all
- Play with as many competitors as your server can manage, with drop-in-drop-out compatibility
- Supports both internet and LAN play
- Dedicated Servers
- Standard server controls
- Seamless transitioning: Multiplayer games can be saved and then played in Singleplayer and then brought back up in Multiplayer
- Original Soundtrack
- Experience an all original soundtrack by Artem Bank
- Much more to come!
- As time goes on, more and more features, graphics updates, and so on will be added to Star Ruler. We won't be satisfied until we're the best in the genre