Starsow

Starsow is a real-time planet capture game. Your planets grow seed-ships; you send half of a planet's fleet at a time to take neutral and enemy planets, and fleets fight on arrival.

Planets ripen while you hold them, growing up to twice as fast, so timing an attack on an old enemy planet, or defending your own, matters more than grabbing everything at once.

• Ripening planets: growth rises from 1x to 2x over forty seconds of ownership and resets when a planet changes hands.
• Three rival personalities: the Rusher attacks you relentlessly, the Turtler reinforces and only fights when it is much stronger, the Opportunist hits planets that were just emptied by a battle.
• Ten hand-made maps: from one rival to three, including a ring, a corner pocket and a final map where you start surrounded in the middle.
• Multi-planet orders: sweep over several of your planets in one drag, or pick them with the keyboard, to launch a combined attack.
• Stars and unlocks: faster wins earn more stars and points; your progress is saved.
• Full keyboard play: a spatial cursor, sources and send on separate keys.

Code and text written with AI assistance; checked by PN Scripts with automated tests. Every shape is drawn and every sound synthesised by code; there are no AI-generated image or audio files.

Controls

• Mouse / touch: drag from your planet (sweep over more of yours) to a target to send half of each fleet
• Tap your planet to pick it, tap a target to send
• Arrow keys / Tab: move the cursor between planets, Space: pick or drop a source, Enter: send, A: pick all, X: clear
• P / Esc: pause, M: sound

Made by PN Scripts.