Beware of Light is an RTS that falls into hardcore city builder subgenre, much like “Frostpunk” and “Ixion”. Your goal as colony commander is to ensure survival of your people on a barren world orbiting a hyper luminous red supergiant star. While being a bountiful source of energy, a star cooks the planet as it slowly drifts towards the fiery doom. You have crash landed with bare minimum supplies and a skeleton crew. The planet, Ash - as you called it, is long dead and devoid of any resources - water has evaporated and any extractable resource is buried under kilometers of sand. You have to improvise: create your water by mixing hydrogen and oxygen, weave your cloth out of rock, and concentrate carbon for plastics out of the atmospheric CO2.
We are committed to maintaining a 99% scientific accuracy in our narrative, that’s why we are not planning on using non-existent technologies, such as FTL, AIs or any other “standart” sci-fi trope. Instead, we believe that the Universe itself as it is is frightening and charming and current science achievements are as cool as any hyperdrive can get.
Dealing with lack of technologies is one of many aspects of our brainchild. While dealing with extremities of the environment, you must explore Ash to find other survivors and brave strange wilds shaped by an unusual parent star. Soon you discover that you are standing on a corpse of an ocean world, dried by the unbearable heat of Thorne-Zytkow Object, one of the most violent stellar objects in existence, followed only by a few other astro-colossi.
Those discoveries are bearing their toll on the mind of your crew, forcing you to deal with different social aspects of extrasolar expeditions, crisis management and maintaining order throughout the colony. Different groups with their agendas sprung out of nowhere, as new discoveries shatter your understanding of the universe.
Your mission is to gather your people, inspire them and somehow leave this forsaken world while dealing with deteriorating conditions. The game has one single campaign with multiple outcomes and your choices really matter. A single decision on what to grow first in your hydroponic vats can have dire ramifications later, being it a compound effect over a long time or hidden switch in NPCs behavior.
We are poised to offer 30+ hours of campaign playtime with high replayability potential plus survival mode with procedurally generated content. Mods and user-generated content support are also one of the main aspects of our product.
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