
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
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After crash-landing on a deserted planetoid deep in uncharted space, your job is to keep your crew of four distinct explorers alive long enough to figure a way back home. Adaptory combines deep physics-based simulation with base building and discovery. As your team digs below the surface, relationships develop, challenges appear, and rebuilding the ship might eventually take a backseat to unraveling the mysteries of this seemingly dead rock.

Each crew member is a distinct individual, generated procedurally at the start of each game. Your goal is to keep them alive: breathing, fed, warm, healthy, and happy. Each explorer has their own set of skills, traits, and opinions they will not hesitate to share with other crew members. Their conversations and diaries are an integral part of the story and the gameplay, helping you figure out how to best utilize their skills in a challenging environment.

The crashed ship provides shelter and will keep your crew alive for a time. But to survive, you'll have to build a proper base and form a resilient community capable of facing any dangers. Your crew needs somewhere to sleep, eat, wash, heal, and hang out to keep morale up. Manage temperature, connections, plumbing - and that’s just the beginning. Complexity grows over time. Eventually, you’ll have to automate the base, because while it grows, and so does your list of tasks, your crew size does not.

Adaptory runs on sophisticated physics and chemistry systems, simulating gravity, temperature, density, viscosity, and even phase transitions with nearly fifty different materials to learn about and experiment with. Leverage them for your benefit. Need power? Set up a solar panel array to capture sunlight. Or power generators by boiling water with molten rock to generate steam or funnel natural gases to a turbine. But remember: each game is a completely new, procedurally generated experience with unique challenges.

Every game comes with unexpected twists and turns. Random meteor showers, solar flares, earthquakes can damage your base - but also provide unexpected opportunities in the form of rare materials or uncovering new veins and artifacts, if your explorers survive them. Even if your base weathers it without a problem, it might push one of your crew members to the breaking point or sever a relationship. How will you adapt and survive? Will you?

Adaptory is a self-contained story set in a much larger universe. You will be able to take a peek at it through the crew's diary entries, artefacts you might find deep within the planetoid, system logs, and even random conversations. From the history of your crew's home planet and their deep-space mission to the mystery of what actually happened, piece together a gripping science-fiction tale crafted by award-winning writer Cassandra Tse.
Adaptory is an ambitious game combining base-building, realistic simulations, emergent gameplay, character development, and randomly-generated events, and is being actively developed with regular updates as we approach version 1.0. We will be introducing new systems and mechanics based on your feedback, so please join the Adaptory Discord to get access to early builds and join the community!
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Languages: English
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is good
A fun game and the devs are lovely people. Can't wait to see what becomes of this game!
Not the type of game I usually play but I enjoyed it. It was fun working out how to use the buildings available to overcome each challenge. Took me about 8 hours and a handful of fresh starts to complete the current content. The pressure mechanic was a bit frustrating at first as it wasn't clear to me exactly what the issue was, or how to solve it, but eventually I worked it out. Explorer priorities clearly need some refining. There's an awful lot of stuff in the game that has no particular use currently, so I'm excited for all the possible new systems in future updates, and already looking forward to replaying it with new content. Overall a very charming game that is easy to sink time into.
Demo worked great and I was really excited. I know it's early access, but it doesn't even run right now. Crashed 3 times. i'll give it a few weeks and try again. Hope to see it running soon.
Currently writing this review while it's still in early access. I played this game before i played ONI and i'm really glad I did, because this helped me become more successful at playing ONI. There's definitely fewer features on here, compared to others, but it's still really nice. Having read the Dev notes posted on the store page, I'm really excited to see what they have planned for the future.
benzerlikleri olan bir oyunu oynamıştım. bu oyunda güzel ama bazı eksiklikleri var, mesela yerler üzerinde kalan suyu moplayamamak ya da yemek yapamamak gibi. ben en fazla day 32 ye kadar gidebildim ve oksijen yetersizliğinden kolonimi kaybettim, oksijen maskeleri yapılmıyor sanırım ya da belki sonraki güncelleme ile research tree ye gelir, bilemiyorum. aynı zamanda over pressure da bi problem. Ama Genel olarak oynarken çözümlemeye çalışırken keyif aldım.
I like this game, I like the direction it is going in. Now that I have played some, i am enjoying it. I like the exploration and base building, I like that the little people will do their best to take care of themselves. Looking forward to what's to come!
beware of deceptive devs, doing bait and switch tactics.
I bought this game on April 5, 2026 and played for 3-hours. I really liked the game, but after 3 hours it crashed. When I restarted the game all that launched was a black screen. I rebooted my computer and reinstalled the game with no results. I am not an expert in whatever technology the game was made from, but it seemed like whatever VM/Middleware that the game uses will launch but then can't seem to load the game itself. I emailed the customer support twice in the last 2-week and have not received a response. I finally applied for a refund. It is a shame because the game itself was fun the short time I got to play it. UPDATE: I am updating my review to thumbs-up. After this review, a representative contacted me and we are trying to work through my problems. The publisher never relayed my original emails to the developer. Like I said, I enjoyed the game. It just stopped working. I am hopeful we can get it working.
I love it ! It is hard enough to maintain you focus in the game and not too hard to be able to progress in it ! It has a great potential, I'm eager to see what's come next !
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