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HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea

A colorful but challenging blend of classic RTS and tower defense. Build, expand, research, and defend your alien colony as you race to construct a teleportation device and escape a dying star.

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ActaLogic
Publisher
ActaLogic
Release
September 6, 2017
8 years and 331 days ago
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Very Positive82 reviews80.5%

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About the Game

HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea is a vibrant real‑time strategy and tower‑defense hybrid where you lead the Scynthian civilization in a desperate mission to survive. Your star is collapsing and your only hope is to land on the toxic moon Haya, gather rare resources, and build the Stellar Bridge before time runs out.

Explore, expand, defend, and outsmart the strange creatures that inhabit this hostile world. Every decision matters: where you land, what you research, how you build your defenses, and how you grow your population.

If you love classic RTS, tower defense, or base‑building with real strategic depth, this is your next obsession.


What Makes HYPERNOVA Unique

  • RTS + Tower Defense = RTDS
    A seamless hybrid where base‑building, resource management, and tactical tower placement all matter.

  • A Charming World With Real Challenge
    Cute creatures, colorful biomes, but don’t be fooled. Haya is dangerous, and your colony will be tested.

  • Freedom to Build Your Strategy
    Choose your landing zone, expand in any direction, and unlock tech in a non‑linear tree.

  • A Race Against Extinction
    Your star is dying. Your mission is urgent. Every resource and every tower counts.

  • Explore a vast open world filled with unique landscapes and hidden relics.

  • Gather and refine resources to power your growing colony.

  • Build settlements to keep your Scynthians alive in a toxic atmosphere.

  • Research dozens of technologies to unlock new buildings, defenses, and upgrades.

  • Construct a powerful tower‑defense network to repel waves of hostile creatures.

  • Assemble the Stellar Bridge, your civilization’s last hope for survival.

  • Replay with different strategies thanks to open‑ended progression and landing choices.

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