Our unique tile-based UI lets you set up and customize any number of screens to accommodate whatever workflow you prefer. For example, you could have one screen to control all mining activity in a certain system and another just to monitor the latest resource prices across various exchanges. Screens are persistent, so you’ll always find your APEX console the way you left it.

The world of Prosperous Universe consists of hundreds of star systems and thousands of planets. Each planet features an individual climate and resource distribution. Star types, planetary orbits as well as planet characteristics are procedurally generated based on approximations of real-world observations and models.

Place a base module on a planet to start a base and expand it using different types of modules. These can include storage, habitation and production modules.

Build specialized production modules to manufacture various materials or to exploit resources. Place production orders in queues to plan ahead.

Players start with a set of standard issue ships which balance cargo volume, fuel capacity and performance. Ships require fuel to operate and depending on the specs, different kinds of fuel for different types of engines.

Slower-than-light-transport in Prosperous Universe refers to travel within a star system and between planets. It’s loosely modelled after real-world orbital mechanics, so your ship’s acceleration, the total mass of your vessel (including cargo and fuel) as well as the position of planets (which changes over time) matter.

Faster-than-light-transport allows you to travel between star systems. FTL engines work by creating a field around the ship which opens a so-called tunnel that shortens the distance between origin and destination.

Almost all goods in the game can be traded on public exchanges. Brokers determine current prices by matching buy and sell orders automatically. Initial exchanges are NPC-operated and offer escrow for relatively risk-free trading.

Operating production modules requires staff, which needs to be housed and entertained. Advanced production processes also require more advanced personnel, which in turn has more sophisticated needs. Low staff satisfaction reduces the production efficiency.

3D star maps allow you to view a wide range of stats and data from the game world, including but not limited to supply and demand within any commodity market or ship traffic through star systems.

An embedded real-time chat systems allows players to communicate in public channels as well as private group and one-to-one conversations.

Each faction in the game has its own currency. If players want to trade using a different currency from their own, they can use the central FX system to exchange currencies. Just like the commodity exchanges, this works in real-time and with automated brokers matching supply and demand.

A set of tools that provides a player with an overview of their assets and financial situation, including a balance sheet and an income statement.

Building bases on planets of the more exotic variety requires specialized hardware to withstand harsh environments. Think floating cities in the skies of Venus...

While the majority of the game’s physical world is generated procedurally, initial systems and planets are hand-crafted.

Players can choose between different profiles during sign-up, giving them advantages in the areas of the game they’d like to focus on, like trade-, mining- or production-focused setups.

Since the game runs 24/7, important things can happen at any time. The notification system allows you to receive email notifications and in-game alerts about new messages, halted productions or arriving ships. Players will be able to customize their notification settings.

Upgraded version of both STL and FTL transport. View individual flight segments along your ship's path, send it to orbits around stars and planets, dock with space stations. View other players' ships on all maps and display their names and owners.

Space stations can be found orbiting either planets or stars. While you cannot set up a base there, you are able to trade with other players.

Local markets are collectively built planetary structures allowing locals to place and accept trading offers, much like bulletin boards.

While you can enter a contract with anyone, there’s no guarantee they’ll keep up their end of the bargain. The player rating is a publicly visible rating score which is generated automatically and is based on various financial and other indicators of the respective player. This provides a clue about how reliable or trustworthy a player might be.

Employing personnel or just mining some minerals incurs taxes to the governing faction. Setting up bases in non-factional territories might reduce or completely avoid taxation.

A shared population that develops on a planet once the necessary infrastructure is available. Most likely to be used for very advanced production processes or for military purposes.

A editor allows you to design customized blueprints based on an extensible component system. Components can be structural elements, reactors, storage modules, or engines, among others. Those blueprints can be used to build ships in shipyards. This allows players to tailor ships to their specific needs.

Needs for the higher population levels required for the production of more advanced modules and ship components.

Initially, these will be loose groups of players similar to clans or alliances in other games and will provide private communication features as well as collective programs that can be voted on. Later on, they will serve as the foundation for complex mid- and end-game features.

Collectively built structures on a planet or in its orbit granting specific benefits to its population.

Make the APEX interface usable on mobile phones and tablets.

Allows corporations to build, operate and maintain physical structures on planets. Initially, this will be the corporation headquarters required for all subsequent corporation activities.

Corporations can provide the infrastructure of planets, thereby gaining control over applicable rules like fees for infrastructure services or the allocation of land.

Extension of the existing population simulation to allow growth based on satisfaction over time. This adds a more long-term component to base operations.

Running a base and operating production modules requires energy. Depending on the environment of your base and the kind of production process, energy requirements might differ widely. The availability of different energy sources becomes an additional criterion when choosing base locations.

The characteristics of a planet are not visible to anyone anymore. Players have to investigate planets first to see what resources they offer and what the atmosphere looks like.

Corporations can open and operate commodity exchanges of their own which allows them to control the materials to be traded, the fee structure, whether to offer escrow or not, what player rating is required to trade, and many more settings.

Shared planetary structures that affect all bases on a planet.

Introduces military conflict into the game, allowing corporations to conquer the infrastructure of planets. Players with bases on these planets will only be affected indirectly by changes in policy, but will never lose property.

While space on planet surfaces is already limited, this feature will grant more control over who can use land and under which conditions.

Allows players to sell their APEX license keys to or buy them from other players.

While trading on commodity exchanges is very convenient, you might want to keep a transaction private for a variety of reasons. This system will allow you to make private deals directly with other players to achieve just that.

More control over the contract system, allowing to design custom contracts, for example loans or supply contracts including delivery locations and dates.

A system that grants players within a faction the right to influence certain faction-wide policies through a voting system.

Whenever goods are traded across faction-borders, tariffs might be charged based on faction policy.

Using specialized equipment, players can search for and exploit asteroids.

Allows players to exchange information about planets, positions of asteroids and other data for money.

Allows to build space stations in orbit around planets, allowing to use ships for transport that do not require the ability to land on planetary surfaces or fly within atmospheres.

Similar to orbital structures, but these structures orbit around a star instead of a planet. Will most likely serve strategic purposes.

Allows companies and corporations to list on the stock exchange and players to trade in stocks and rake in dividends.

While making the game itself mobile-friendly is not part of our roadmap for the time being, special-purpose companion apps might be a compromise to allow users to use the most common features on the go.

Provide an interface for players to develop connected apps that use PU data directly.

Make Prosperous Universe available for purchase on commonly used platforms.

Hit the button labeled "Play now!" at the top right of this page.

Prosperous Universe is currently in First Access. The goals of First Access are to build a community early, integrate player feedback and help fund the game's development until the full release.

The next big steps are Early Access (2021) and ultimately the full launch (TBA). The single game world will be reset multiple times during First and Early Access and finally become persistent upon full launch.

The game can be played for free! However, licensees using an APEX Trial license have to deal with a few restrictions on what their companies can do. Upgrading to PRO is possible at any time by purchasing any support tier (starting at 10 €). This crowdfunding-like system allows early adopters to help fund development and get some great perks in return. Each key will grant PRO access throughout the entire First Access phase, which started in December 2018 and will last several months. Once First Access is over, the PRO license will be tied to a monthly subscription fee. (Some support tiers already contain PRO months for the post-release era!) We have not settled on a final monthly price yet, but we expect it to be a one-digit Euro amount per month.

We think that the browser is a very capable gaming platform, available on pretty much every computer and every system in the world. It's the perfect match for the kind of play style we have in mind, allowing people to play from their office or while doing something else without having to download, install and run client software.

There is no official mobile support as of now. Our primary focus lies on desktop browsers for the time being. Optimizations to play the game on tablets as well as companion apps for certain aspects of the game are on our roadmap, though.

First and foremost, Properous Universe is a browser-based game. While we do have plans to provide a client software that could be offered on platforms like Steam or the Apple App Store, this is a low priority for us right now.

There are links to our forums and our Discord server at the top of this page. If you prefer e-mail, write to hello@prosperousuniverse.com.