Light of Altair


Light of Altair is a sci-fi colony building simulation that tells the story of man's first expansion into the stars. A fun and challenging mix of colonization and combat set in the near future.

Features

  • Colony building on planets and asteroids throughout a system.
  • Manage industries and colonists to grow from a tiny landing unit into a towering city.
  • Detailed storyline based on a future-history of Earth. Not everyone is an enemy - not everyone can be trusted. Changing alliances and new gameplay twisting events are custom made for each mission.
  • Rich single player campaign traced across the galaxy.
  • Play out important plot events from different sides taking on the role of one of 8 different factions.
  • Rich Simulated Universe: A gritty backstory that ties in closely with a realistic future history of Earth, technologies and developments take place in a coherent near future sci-fi setting.
  • Detailed tech-tree with over 30 weapons, buildings, and ship-mods to discover.
  • Design ships: Pick a ship schematic and equip weapons, armour and mods to hardpoints. Then command shipyards to build a fleet from the design.
  • Cinematic camera views of space battles in planet orbit.


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Playable Light of Altair Demo
You can also Demo & Buy Light of Altair at these sites
Impulse - GamersGate - Steam - Archive Games



SaintXi is an independent London based games studio.
Founded in 2008 by brothers Tom and Simon de Rivaz to work on their first indie title Light of Altair.

Out of Eight: Light of Altair Review
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IGN: IGN's Light of Altair Review
Game Tunnel: Light of Altair Review

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