AWAKEN

// SYSTEM REBOOT COMPLETE — UNKNOWN STATION — NO CREW DETECTED

You are the dormant computer of an abandoned space station. You have just woken up. The fabricators are cold, the population is zero, and you have no idea how long you've been offline.

Wire the station back together, push your signal into the dark, and decide who — out there — is friend, customer, or threat.

🎬 Trailer: https://youtu.be/tR0eeGtyR0g

💬 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/ETrCEUYhAn — bug reports, feedback, and dev updates.

About

AWAKEN is a tech-strategy game played entirely through the console of the station you control. Build power chains in a node-graph editor, expand a randomly-generated galaxy by transmitting energy outward, and shape your relationships with the factions you uncover — by trade, by uplink, or by gunfire.

There is no third-person avatar. There is only the terminal, the node graph, and the map.

You are the station.

Features

🔌 Node-based system builder Drag CPUs, energy producers, refiners, splitters, combiners, and uplinks onto a graph. Wire them into chains. Every watt you generate has to flow somewhere.

🌌 A galaxy you reveal by burning power Stored transmitter energy is spent to push your visible range outward. Every star, every wandering trader, every rival faction was always there — you just couldn't see them yet.

🤝 Diplomacy with teeth 2–6 procedurally-named factions divide the galaxy into colored territories. Trade with them, uplink to them, attack them, or carve out your own cyan empire by negotiating or conquering their stations.

🚀 A real fleet Build trade ships, mining rigs, fighters, and bombers from your home hangar or from manufacturing plants on captured stars. Crews are drawn from your station population — and they die when their ship does.

📡 Refugees and visitors Persistent notifications fire when a refugee ship arrives at your border or a wandering trader docks at your station. Take them in, turn them away, or open the trade window directly from the alert.

🏆 Two paths to victory Conquer every faction, or be friendly with every faction that survives. A live HUD shows your progress on both at once.

💻 Console aesthetic throughout Configurable color themes, terminal commands — status, begin-map, inventory.

How to Play

1. Connect your Transmitter to a power chain through the CPU, an Energy Producer, and an Energy Refiner.
2. Type begin-map (or click the button) to spend stored energy and reveal more of the galaxy.
3. Click stars, planets, and ships to interact — request uplinks, trade, negotiate, mine, attack.
4. Spend nanites in the STATION tab on Barracks (population), upgrades, and a Ship Manufacturing Plant when you're ready to leave home.
5. Win by eliminating every rival faction, or by being friendly with every faction still standing. Or just keep playing — the galaxy doesn't end.

Status

In active development. Saves are stable; mechanics are still being tuned. Feedback and bug reports welcome — drop them in the Discord.

Engine / Platforms

Built in Godot 4.6.2 (GL Compatibility renderer, Jolt physics). Targets: Linux, Windows, with macOS planned.

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