Pluto · Beyond Neptune
Beacon in the Dark
Cross ice canyons, restore the beacons and leave a road home for your companion.
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Small footsteps. Vast discoveries.
A universe within your reach.
Travel with three companions into worlds shaped by ice, fire and gravity. Find a path, test an idea, and bring a discovery home.
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Your next horizon
Beacon in the Dark
Three journeys and an experimental collection
Where will you go?
The Last Light from Earth
Save a seed. Find your crew. Keep a new home alive.
Beneath the Giant
Read volcanic ground, compare magnetic fields and venture beneath the ice.
Echoes of the Far Sun
Cross remote ice worlds. Follow faint clues and leave a road home.
Beyond the Star Charts
An evolving collection of experiments in visual style, play and storytelling.
The expedition library
Find your next discovery.
Follow a story collection, or try a work in progress in the experimental collection.
20 games · Highlights first
Io · Jupiter I
Furnace Clock
Read old crust and fresh lava with Mara. Choose a crossing and recover a stranded probe.
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Ganymede · Jupiter III
Magnetic Cathedral
Leave a reference with Mara, remove local interference and compare the field beneath the aurora.
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Haumea · The distant ice
Beneath the Ring
Follow reflections into the ice valleys. Work with Mara to open bridges and reach a distant field record.
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A pocket planet
Last Seed
Dig into a tiny world and build living machines to keep Earth’s last seed alive.
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A drifting ring ship
Hollow Wreck
Tow cargo, reuse the last battery and make your own route to bring Sol home.
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The black-star crossing
Black Star Relay
Leave three lights in the dark. Rebuild old lighthouses and bring Nia’s answer home.
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A drowned garden
Tidal Garden
Reveal submerged paths, ride a rising ferry and hold water in the garden on your way to Nia.
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A home bound for Jupiter
The Fifth Home
Turn rooms, reconnect sunlight and water, and make a home for three travellers.
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Europa · Jupiter II
Breathing Ice
Compare ice echoes, guide a tethered probe through hidden passages and bring back evidence.
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Callisto · Jupiter IV
The Oldest Witness
Walk the impact rings. Read overlapping ridges to find a crossing and uncover a world’s history.
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Europa · An imagined ocean
The First Reply
Explore the ocean, compare currents and create a refuge. Investigate a quiet, uncertain response.
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Charon · Pluto’s companion
Across the Divide
Ferry Mara across the fractures. Compare ice walls and discover a sky shared with Pluto.
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Arrokoth · Two joined lobes
The Joined Memory
Guide a small probe around the ridges. Help it cross, then let it help you return.
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Kuiper Belt · The final relay
A Light for Whoever Comes Next
Work with moving machines, secure a permanent route and leave the station running.
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Imagined world · A sea in the sky
The Hanging Sea
Travel inside a living sea. Use light and darkness to discover what follows you—and what opens only when you stop shining.
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Imagined world · A sun that stays still
The Breathing Forest
Ride a living leaf and turn the courtyard mirrors. Follow where the energy goes; another angle may wake something new.
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Imagined world · Homes on the move
The Wandering City
Moor a courtyard, walk through its rooms and let the city carry you. Compare the sky from a moving balcony and a fixed observatory.
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Imagined world · Ruins under an ocean
Bottomless Blue
Send a pulse into the water, compare its returns and reveal submerged corridors. Trace a source of energy far beyond the sunlight.
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Imagined world · A shared way home
The Waking Horizon
Compare three distant lights from two telescopes. Unfold a route across the islands and hold it open until everyone is home.
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Find your first expedition
A little guidance before launch
One crew. A shared curiosity.
You never explore alone.
Their skills differ. Their questions bring them together. Meet the crew through the choices you make along the way.
Mara
Life scientist · Protects what can grow.
Sol
Systems engineer · Finds a way through.
Nia
Water & gravity specialist · Sees the connections.
Observation meets imagination.
Our Solar System journeys draw on real observations. Beyond the Star Charts explores entirely fictional worlds. Each expedition separates what was observed, what is inferred and what we invented.
Explore the real observations
Spacecraft images · NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS