Starlab
Pilot physics-driven spacecraft through a seamless Newtonian 2D solar system. Build and automate planetary bases, then fight an alien swarm on foot or from vehicles.
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9 itemsAbout the Game
You awaken as the latest clone inside a facility built to outlast death. Everyone else is gone. The solar system they left behind is hostile, scattered, and waiting to be rebuilt.
MASTER A NEWTONIAN SOLAR SYSTEM
Every world has its own gravity. Walk around entire moons, launch from any surface, establish an orbit, perform a slingshot, or misjudge your trajectory and crash somewhere far from home.
Fuel, mass, momentum, and gravity shape every journey. Travel seamlessly from the ground to orbit and onward to another hand-painted world—without selecting destinations from a map or passing through loading screens.
TURN EXPLORATION INTO INFRASTRUCTURE
Begin with hand tools and whatever resources you can reach. Establish outposts, generate power, extract materials, and connect machinery into automated production lines.
Your bases manufacture the fuel, ammunition, equipment, and construction materials needed to travel farther. As you expand, isolated footholds grow into an interplanetary supply network supporting expeditions across the solar system.
FIGHT ON FOOT OR FROM VEHICLES
The Echo, an alien swarm, has infested the worlds around you. Its nests spread across the surface, hostile creatures defend its territory, and powerful enemies wait beneath the ground.
Fight with firearms, grenades, flamethrowers, plasma weapons, and heavy machinery. Engage on foot, use physics-driven vehicles to cross hostile terrain, or build the infrastructure needed to supply a prolonged campaign.
CHOOSE WHERE TO PUSH NEXT
Each world presents different gravity, terrain, resources, and threats. Decide where to establish your next base, which technology to pursue, and how much equipment and fuel an expedition is worth risking.
Push outward from Earth and the Moon toward Mars, Mercury, Venus, and beyond. Every new foothold makes the next journey possible.
DIE, CLONE, RETURN
You will run out of oxygen. You will lose control of a vehicle. You will crash somewhere inconvenient or become overwhelmed far from your supplies.
When you die, awaken in a new body at your cloning pod and prepare another attempt. Recover what you lost, change your approach, and return better equipped.
Death is temporary. The infrastructure you build is not.
Key Features
Explore a seamless 2D solar system with planetary gravity and Newtonian spaceflight
Pilot rockets, ground vehicles, and jetpacks using real fuel, momentum, and mass
Walk around entire planets and travel continuously from their surfaces into orbit
Build bases with power grids, extractors, factories, and automated supply lines
Fight an alien swarm on foot or from physics-driven vehicles
Wield firearms, grenades, flamethrowers, heavy weapons and more
Choose your route across Earth, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, and beyond
Respawn through cloning to keep death fast and momentum high
