NOVA Demo

Every world you own grows forces. Fling them at the next one.

This is the first chapter of Nova, free and complete. Twelve hand built levels, played entirely with one mouse. No build orders, no menus mid match. Just the board, your fleets, and the clock.

What is in the demo

Chapter One is where Nova teaches you to read a board. Twelve levels against the Ember, a rival that expands the moment you look away. Combat rewards concentration, so the fleet you hold back is worth more than the one you split. That single idea carries the whole game, and this is where you learn it.

What is waiting in the full game

Eleven more chapters and 132 more hand built levels, with six more rival factions that will turn on each other as readily as on you. Teleport portals that skip every hazard in between. Fortified stations that shoot down anything passing within range. Black holes that swallow whole squads, asteroid belts that grind down every fleet that crosses them, stars that burn away anything left parked in the light, and worlds held by the Cold, where your troops leave at half speed and bleed the whole time they stand there. Worlds orbiting on rings, ellipses, figure eights and stranger curves, so the map you plan against is not the map you arrive at. A constellation of nine skills with nine ranks each, earned across the campaign. And something else, waiting in the later chapters, that changes the war you thought you were fighting.

A note from the developer

I built Nova alone, placed every one of its 144 levels by hand, and played each one until it felt right.

This is where it starts. If you enjoy it, eleven more chapters are waiting in the full game.

Thank you for playing.

Before you start

Progress in the demo does not carry into the full game, so Chapter One gets played again there. It is twelve levels, and the full game opens with them regardless.