Cosmic Dominion now has a home on Steam, and wishlists are open.
Cosmic Dominion is a 2D space-combat strategy game that bridges arcade dogfighting with real-time galactic conquest. Take the stick yourself in fast, precision-driven ship-to-ship combat, or step back and direct a full-scale war across a galaxy of living planets. Every world you take has to be held: invested in, defended, and fought over against rival commanders who mine, trade, colonize, and go to war on their own terms.
What you will be doing
Dogfight your way through the galaxy. A fully upgradeable flagship with six weapon slots: cannons, beam lasers, homing missiles and blast ordnance, each on its own swivel, autoload, damage and cooldown track. Kinetic and energy rounds behave differently against shields and hulls, disruptor fire knocks out weapons or shields outright, and support rounds can heal a world or seed a plague on an enemy one.
Conquer and automate. Planets are engines, not scenery. A captured world mines its own ore, builds its own defenses, prints its own garrison fighters and pays you a cut of everything it earns. Break a defended world's shields to breach it, then land a boarding party to seize its cities intact.
Outplay AI commanders, not just AI ships. Rival factions are run by commanders who play the same economy you do. They mine, trade, colonize dead worlds, build war chests, and only declare war when it is worth it.
Make the galaxy your own. Play as any of 8 factions, set teams and alliances, dial in starting worlds, map size and difficulty, pick wraparound or bounded space, pin a seed to replay the same galaxy, and toggle the Insectoid invasions that come for everyone.
What is next
Free demo on Steam, itch.io and in the browser on Unity Play in the coming weeks. It is the full game with its ceiling lowered: twenty worlds, one rival commander, the swarm, and planets capped at tier three. Follow the page and it will show up here the day it is out. Cosmic Dominion is built in Unity by one developer over a year of nights and weekends. If you want to follow along or tell me what you think, the Discord is open: https://discord.gg/GXBRDn3NZx. Website: cosmicdominion.com
Command from the cockpit. Win from orbit.