
Explore a vast underground world to mine and craft hundreds of items while building up your modular Outpost on the surface, to prospect for gems, refine resources and farm hydroponic crops in this top-down sci-fi survival-crafter where the story always provides a reason to dig deeper.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 1.57/day in the week to Aug 31 → 2/day in the week after.
About

You are Maeve, ex-mining engineer for the Astral Resource Corporation - ARC - a galactic megacorp that profits by draining entire planets of their resources.
As you take on your own mining claim, you'll explore the remnants of a doomed science expedition and the abandoned facilities they've left behind as Maeve strives to build a stable life of her own, outside of ARC’s control.
Armed with nothing but her basic mining equipment, tales from her beloved grandad, and her loyal AI drone companion, can you unravel the mystery of an incredibly powerful new element and uncover the dark secrets that the corpos would rather keep buried?

Use the simple but powerful modular building system to create your own mining operations hub filled with dozens of types of refining, processing and crafting stations.
Grow plants, raise fish and prospect for gems in your cozy habitats which you can decorate with almost any item you come across.


Descend underground and use lasers, explosives, drills and more to gather hundreds of different resources from your mining claim then refine them and craft new tools for exploration.
Upgrade your suit and mining drone companion to explore deeper and further into the world.


Built from the ground-up with story at its heart, uncover a dystopian corporate conspiracy and decide how far you’re willing to go for the truth.
Story is not an afterthought in AETHUS - there's always new narrative to drive you forward.



Looking for a laid-back exploration experience? Maybe a hardcore survival challenge? Want to mix and match?...
Use the available Game Modifiers to set up your perfect game settings, then adjust them at any time while playing.



AETHUS was created by Pawsmonaut Games - a solo-indie developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
I am self-published, self-funded, and fully committed to old-fashioned ethical game development.
No use of generative AI, no early access, no microtransactions or battle passes.
This game contains effects that may make it unsuitable for people with photosensitive conditions.
Player discretion is advised.
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Reviews
Had an itch for a survival-type game and decided to get this on a whim after looking at the reviews, and I have 0 regrets. Aethus is a great story-focused survival game if you're looking for something that's not too complex and doesn't take too long but can still grip you from start to finish. I absolutely love the tons of QoL that the game just has baseline in terms of base-building— very intuitive with good snapping, power doesn't need to be connected through wires here or there, and everything in storage can be used from anywhere in the base (you don't have to remember where you put all your component pieces, as long as it's stored somewhere on base). And the way the game provides you with upgrades that boosts the player character's capabilities just goes so smoothly and was very satisfying to follow along the curve it presented. Several have made the comparison to Subnautica (which was partially why I leaned towards getting the game), and while it's not a gigantic flashy adventure, it takes a lot of what's good about that game and others like it and tries to give a great experience with that sort of gripping narrative that keeps you wanting to go deeper and deeper. For those wanting to know how long it is, game takes probably 20 hours or less to complete (your mileage may vary depending on how well-versed you are with survival-type games and how quickly you want to complete objectives or spend time designing your base).
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,402 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 172 reviews with recorded playtime.
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A game and story worth buying and 100%ing, though I'd have liked to have a bit more story at the end after everything settles. Still, highly recommend.
This is definitively one of the best bulding and discovery+story game I have played so far. I didn't have so much fun since playing Subnautica... Das ist ganz bestimmt eines der besten Aufbau- und Erkundungsspiele, die ich bis jetzt gespielt habe. So viel Spaß hatte ich nicht mehr seit Subnautica...
A great cozy survival-ish (very light on the survival aspects) crafting game accompanied by an interesting backstory. I enjoyed my time with this one. I feel like replayability is fairly limited as everything is very mapped out / linear, but still very worth a playthrough.
What an awesome game. Exploration, crafting and building coupled with a brilliant story. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute of playing.
I am enjoying this game much more than I expected to. When I first learned about it (before it was released), I admired the art style right away, the "teaser" about the main character ("MC"), a female protagonist (which is a great thing in my opinion) Maeve, communicates with her floating robot Roland assistant/pal, and I am a big fan of both science fiction and colonization (whether the New World or another planet). I was slightly hesitant because, although I own and have played some crafting/"farm sim" type games, they tended to be designed to be overcomplicated. I also thought what I perceived to be underhanded corporate trickery would add interest to the story. After playing for some time, I didn't want to stop. The interaction between Maeve (MC) and Roland (robot) was much better than I had hoped. Roland seems to have a real commitment and concern for Maeve, which, for humanity's future, is hopeful and positive. They joke and share ideas with camaraderie. The survivalism and crafting incrementally builds as you play and learn, and more involved processes are introduced keeping pace with how one plays the game. Likely I "overfarm" water from Dew Collectors, which I direct Maeve to go around and collect each morning. I have only just barely stepped my toe into corporate shenanigans, so look forward to more of that.
Found this to be a chill little builder/survival game that has a story so it doesn't get away from you and become a never ending time sink. The gathering of materials isn't too much of a grind and I found it fun to explore the new spaces as I got upgrades. Building isn't too cumbersome but might be lacking for true builders out there who like other more complex building systems. I feel like I have a lot more to discover but I'm finding it relaxing and fun for now.
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Enjoyed this very much. Lasted a bit longer than I think it needed, but overall it was great. While not similar in many ways, hit a lot of the same vibes I enjoyed in Subnautica - with the non-combat, survival exploration story unfolding. Thanks for the fun times!
Great game, the only thing I'd recommend is read every log, keep a notepad beside you, you'll need it.
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