Chart what
no one has named.
Astrarium is a slow, solitary game about drifting to the edge of known space and drawing the map that doesn't exist yet — one star, one current, one silence at a time.
You carry a sextant, not a sword.
Sight three stars
No radar, no minimap. Your position is a guess you refine by hand, sighting old light against your own drawn chart.
Follow the current
Stellar currents pull your hull for hours of game-time. Sleep through them, or fight the pull and burn fuel you'll want later.
Leave a mark
Every body you chart gets a name of your choosing, written into a shared, persistent atlas other captains will sail through.
What the edge of the map looks like.
Notes from the build.
The sextant finally lies to you correctly. Instrument drift now compounds with hull temperature — read it too fast after a burn and your triangulation quietly rots.
Shared atlas is live in the playtest branch. Names you leave on a body now persist for the next captain who drifts through your sector, misspellings and all.
Cut the combat prototype entirely. It kept turning Astrarium into a different, louder game. The hull can still be damaged — only by currents, never by anything with intent.