The Black Beyond

The Black Beyond is a sci-fi building sim. Create a thriving city in space using a fleet of worker drones, while carefully managing and expanding the colony's resources. 

This is an early access version. This will include a Steam key once the game is available on Steam. The Steam version will be available as an Early Access title for $9.99 or $14.99 later in 2018. 

• Build a sprawling space city 
• Create farms and factories to produce goods or extract basic resources like oxygen and carbon
• Construct fleets of ships to trade your finished products, or equip vessels for combat and plunder your rivals with piracy
• Build residences to generate rent. Construct parks, bars, malls, and more to earn commercial income. 
• Unlock new upgrades with research

Controls

• Press '1' to lay new connectors
• WASD or left click to move 
• Q/E or Space/C to move up and down
• Hold right click to rotate. 
• Mouse wheel to zoom
• Hold shift to move quickly or to place multiple structures at once
• Use 'R' and 'T' to rotate structures

Where is the game at right now? What do you do?

Produce Resources:

• Collect energy by constructing solar panels. Unlock larger solar arrays and fusion power plants. Expand your maximum energy with batteries.
• Mine asteroids by constructing mining lasers.
• Export minerals or finished goods to earn credits. Protect your fleets with escorts or risk falling victim to pirates. 
• Expand your industry by building drone factories. More worker drones means faster construction and more mining. Deploy entire fleets to quickly expand your city.
• Attract population by constructing space ports and housing. Income from population is used to build advanced structures. 
• Build new ships to trade more goods, transport more residents, or mine extra resources. 
• Expand in any direction. There aren't currently any hard limits to how far you can build. 

I'm extremely grateful for any feedback or publicity about my game.  My game is a work in progress, and I am very much dedicated to finishing it (you know...before I go broke and die). 

Your help is very much ... helpful? At a certain point I'm just sucking up, but seriously...thank you!  

Thank you very much for trying my game!