About This Game

Astro Protocol is a turn-based 4X space strategy game focused on tactical decision-making, challenging opponents, and high replayability.

Each match emphasizes positioning, timing, and adapting to changing situations. The CPU-controlled opponents play to win, victories are earned, and no two runs unfold the same.

Matches are designed to conclude in around an hour, keeping games focused and decisive.

Expand Your Empire Across the Galaxy

Build your empire by constructing space stations and extending your network through planetary colonization.

Build stations to harvest resources from asteroids, gas giants, and stars. Improve their efficiency with refinery stations or by terraforming planets to support industry, research, or logistics. Every placement shapes the future of your empire.

Tactical One-Unit-Per-Tile Combat

Combat takes place on a one-unit-per-tile hex grid where positioning is everything. Each ship has distinct roles, attack profiles, shields, armor, and abilities.

Assemble fleets, upgrade ships, and exploit enemy weaknesses to gain the upper hand against rival factions and a capable AI that actively competes for victory.

Research, Adapt, and Replay

Research new technologies across three branches to unlock ships, stations, terraforming options, and upgrades. Technology choices are randomized each run, forcing you to adapt rather than follow fixed build orders.

Choose from six playable factions, each with distinct mechanics and strategic strengths. Combined with randomized maps, minor factions, technologies, anomalies, and victory conditions, every match presents a new strategic puzzle to solve.

Explore anomalies scattered across the galaxy, each offering unpredictable rewards from abandoned vessels to powerful technologies that can reshape your plans.

Race for Victory

Each match is a race toward victory under changing conditions. Fulfill randomized victory objectives through expansion, combat, or exploration, and pressure your rivals before they do the same.

Win by securing the required victory points or by outlasting every other faction.

What’s Included

6 playable factions

8 minor factions

24 ship types

12 planet types

100+ technologies

100+ anomalies

9 victory conditions

4 map generators