Sphere

Sphere is a sci-fi roguelike game about scavenging and combat in a sprawling ship graveyard. 

Note: We are currently in an early alpha phase! If you are feeling extra helpful today, do feel free to leave feedback or suggestions in the discussion board.

Current Features

• Modular shipwreck generator: Ships are assembled from basic shapes and dynamically filled with rooms and objects for both randomness and consistent structure.
• Immersive ship environments: Rooms drain of oxygen when the hull is damaged. Fires can start, spread and consume oxygen. Gravity can be switched on and off. Many objects you encounter have real functions, such as monitoring and power supply.
• Challenging close-quarters fights: Enemies, player characters and their equipment have a large range of strengths and weaknesses. Damage limbs, use cover, adjust your aim mode and perform special attacks and movement actions.

State of Development

Sphere has been in development for about three years now. The game is written from scratch, and most work has gone into creating a solid framework for UI and and level generation.

The current version includes "Arcade-mode" only, which is shorter and more combat focussed. Length-wise, Sphere is perhaps more of a coffee-break roguelike at this point, with one or two hours of content.

The next step will be to flesh out ship interiors, improving the level design and adding both loot and interaction with the ship systems, and then, to widen the game's scope more towards Campaign Mode, the planned exploration and base-building aspects.

Roadmap

Nomad Update (0.5, Q1 2025)

• Space travel: Repair your ship and move it through different environments in the junk ring
• Environment traits: regions are different and have features such as background radiation or different enemy factions
• Enclaves: Meet friendly NPCs, trade and render aid
• Full Mouse controls
• Ship Overhaul: More variation in ship sizes and shapes, more ways to find loot and salvage
• Skill and spellcasting overhaul: More skills, Caster class, enemy casters

Salvage Upgrade (0.6, Mid 2025)

• Home ship interior: Roam your own ship, furnish and edit spaces
• More repairable and salvageable ship systems
• Crew: Find allies, get support on missions and tend to their needs
• Economy: Automate collection of basic resources, maintain food, water and oxygen supply