Astronaire

A Space Trading Adventure

You are an ambitious space trader with one ship, limited credits, and a galaxy full of bad deals pretending to be good ones. Buy low, sell high, and try not to get outplayed by the market, your rivals, or your own crew.

Trade, Speculate, Regret

• Trade commodities between planets with wildly different prices

• Invest in planetary shares and hope the news breaks your way

• High demand pays well. Low demand sometimes does not mean cheap.

Planets With Opinions

Every planet has its own idea of how trading should work:

• Strip scrapyards for upgrades someone else definitely died for

• Buy cheap fuel from people you probably should not trust

• Transmute goods into something more valuable. Or less.

• Gamble credits at casinos that absolutely do not care about you

• Petition for tax relief and discover new, exciting tax outcomes

Rival Traders

• Compete against rival traders chasing the same opportunities

• Rivals take loans, upgrade ships, manipulate markets, and can go bankrupt

• Remove them from the economy entirely to win. Or just outlast them.

Ship, Crew, and Consequences

• Manage fuel, cargo space, speed, and crew morale

• Upgrade your ship or find rare improvements in unlikely places

• Push your crew too hard and they may push back

Espionage, Mostly Legal

• Build a network of contacts across the galaxy

• Spy on rival trades, finances, and destinations

• Manipulate prices, leak ledgers, slow ships, or arrange “accidents”

• Operations last a full galactic year

Things Will Happen

• Random events that affect markets, ships, and crew

• Some are good. Some are not. The timing is rarely convenient.

Demo & Full Release

Ramping up for a steam release so I made a demo and will keep the last free version available. Might be a little more in it than the demo right now but it's also little more buggy. I'll try to keep the demo version updated along with the main version from here on out. 

You can play the demo in the browser now too.

If you buy the game here I'll give the steam key free when I get them. Might be a little while yet as it's the first time doing it.

Roadmap

- Tutorial system

- Still looking for music

- More rival refinements (personalities and strategies)

- Expanded events system

- Additional ships

- Improve visuals, audio, and UI optimization

Join the adventure, trade smart, explore boldly, and don't let the crew mutiny.

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Some great assets made by https://deep-fold.itch.io

- Planet assets: https://deep-fold.itch.io/pixel-planet-generator

- Space Background: https://deep-fold.itch.io/space-background-generator