Sundered Reach is a space strategy RPG inspired by the sandbox campaign of Mount & Blade, the battles of Total War, the space and ground war of Star Wars: Empire at War and the relationships of Mass Effect.
Start as a cadet. Earn your ship. Build a warband and decide which of the great powers you fight for, or against.
Every war in the Reach is fought twice: by fleets in orbit and by armies on the ground. Win the battle above a world, send down your troops and take it wall by wall.
- Your story starts on foot at the Ilith Academy.
- Train at the shooting range, race in the Ilith Cup and go on missions with your squad.
- Voiced story scenes with your mentors.
- Graduate, and take command of your own ship.
- One star system and a hundred worlds: mining planets, research stations, ice moons and the wreckage of shattered planets.
- Planets move on real orbits. Recruit troops in every settlement, trade and take contracts.
- 104 map events, pirates, raids and wars between 11 factions.
- Three great powers: the industrial Karthan Combine, the scientific Aurelian Concord and the alien Threnn Shoal.
- Encounters become fleet battles in real time.
- 13 ship classes, from fighters to dreadnoughts, with shields, beams, missiles and point defence.
- Command the whole fleet or take the helm yourself.
- Board their flagship with boarding pods.
- Battles and sieges with up to 1,500 soldiers per side and 30 troop types.
- Shield wall, testudo and phalanx. When the lines meet, every soldier finds his own opponent.
- Shield domes, trenches, ladders and gates. Walls break, and the artillery needs its crew.
- Human war machines: the Foreman mech, the Anvil tank, the Jackal buggy and the Derrick walker.
- The Threnn bring living ones: the Kharrak, the Ossuun, the Shael and the giant Thuulmar.
- Fight on forest worlds, ice, steppe and the red sands of Mars.
- 36 lords, notables and companions who remember what you did.
- Contracts, favours, intrigue and diplomacy.
- Calls from your bridge. Key scenes are voiced.
Freighters stop coming home. Stations fall silent. People blame pirates, or the Threnn.
Over the course of the campaign the Vesk rise from the edge of the system, and the war for the Reach becomes a fight for survival.
Sundered Reach launches in Early Access. At launch you play the human factions, and more factions will follow as DLC.
The game is built for modding: factions, troops, events, items, vehicles, characters and dialogue are already plain data files, and full mod support is a core goal. Multiplayer, controller support and more languages are planned during Early Access.
