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Space Opera playtest
by Bradley Labs
Found colonies, create spaceships from modules, colonize planets, form alliances and destroy your opponents in a turn-based game.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Jul 7, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Bradley Labs
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the Space Opera playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the Space Opera playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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About Space Opera
Dive into a game that blends strategy and creativity!
In this 4X game, you decide the fate of your civilization – starting with the choice of your homeworld: what atmosphere does your species breathe? What kind of world do they call home?
Give your species character through its traits:
- Cunning researchers?
- Brutal berserkers?
- Skilled builders?
- Or a mix of everything?
Explore the stars, build colonies on distant worlds, and grow your empire through economy and research. In the long run, you decide whether your people claim their place among the stars through diplomacy – or through war.
Build Everything Your Fleet Needs
With a modular construction system featuring over 200 different modules, design your own blueprints for:
- Spaceships
- Space stations
- Ground troops
- Fighters
- Drones
- Satellites
Seamless Strategy-to-Battle Transition
The moment your fleets encounter the enemy, the game switches straight into real-time combat – no loading screen, no scene change. The strategy map and the battle layer run in parallel under the hood, so your entire game state is always preserved.
Living, Procedurally Styled Planets
Every planet is built from hand-painted heightmaps and color ramps, then brought to life with shaders adding clouds, lighting, and atmosphere – giving every world a unique look within a consistent pixel-art style.
Data-Driven Design
Ships, modules, buildings, and research are all defined through an open data structure – laying the groundwork for future mod support.
Key Features:
- Choose your civilization's homeworld and species traits
- Turn-based galaxy strategy: exploration, colonization, economy, research
- Modular construction system with 200+ modules for ships, stations, ground troops, fighters, drones, and satellites
- Real-time tactical combat with no break in the strategic flow
- Procedurally styled planets with individual looks
- Pixel-art aesthetic in the spirit of classic strategy games
- Built with future mod support in mind
From the game's Steam page.
