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Penkura

Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.

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December 19, 2018
7 years and 227 days ago
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About the Game


Penkura seamlessly blends a top-down base building system with immersive first-person survival exploration. Easy to grasp yet challenging to master, the game employs classic death mechanics that strip you of equipment upon demise. To overcome this, players can craft custom robotic companions, essential for base construction, resource gathering, and safeguarding settlements.

It encourages players to choose from a variety of approaches through which to complete their goals. Players will find themselves becoming experts in areas entirely of their choosing. The intention is that, when the co-op is unveiled, players will find that the interaction of their unique skill sets with those of their peers creates capable and rewarding team gameplay.


Penkura offers a range of buildings, machines, bots, and items to construct using the "MMC" (Molecular Matter Converter) or "CCC" (Command Control Communication) for a top-down perspective to build your base. Take control of your bots to explore or perform repairs from the safety of your base. Unleash the potential of the CCC!

Dive into the immersive world of Penkura's campaign mode, offering rich adventures. While currently under development. In co-op mode, you'll have the ability to construct massive stations and explore additional maps outside of adventure mode for added challenges as you tackle the new world together.

Deep beneath Antarctic ice, a Polish research team uncovers an ancient temple, a portal to a captivating new world.

As Earth faces overpopulation and devastation, Project "Gemini" initiates the migration of humanity to this promising planet. For 41 years, pioneers traverse the singularity, until contact is mysteriously severed.

Now, as a mercenary, you embark on a perilous journey through the unstable gateway,
tasked with survival and uncovering the secrets of the unknown world beyond.