Description

Scientists on your homeworld have discovered that the true nature of the universe is not unlike a Dark Forest, with solar systems connected by branches of a Cosmic Tree. Your people have started to travel to nearby stars, but even so, you have not found other advanced life. Obsessed with the search for your cosmic brothers and sisters, you set out exploring from your homeworld. To aid in exploration, your scientists have invented The Singularity Probe, a machine that can travel into space and speed up time, turning the millennia it would take to travel to the stars into hours. As a side effect of time speeding up however, life on nearby planets grows in leaps and bounds every time the Probe causes one of these leaps in time. Oversee and guide the development of life in the Universe, and discover whether we are alone in the Dark Forest.

In this action selection game, players will use Seekers to Sow the seeds of life on planets, Settle their own Watchers on a planet, and plan jumps to new solar systems that will occur during the next Leap in time. Watchers then will work to Suppress or Elevate the native life on a planet, tending them for a later Reaping, or perhaps helping them evolve to higher forms of life. Each new planet you discover will have unique properties, yielding a new worker placement spot that will alter the possible strategies in the game. The winner of the game is the first to find and make peace with an Ancient Civilization, if one exists, or to become the only advanced species in the universe if not.