Novarchy vs Trenchlight

Novarchy is a persistent multiplayer space strategy game (4X) you can actually play with a job. One shared galaxy, always on. Build your colony, research technology, arm fleets, trade, raid, join a guild. Ten minutes two or three times a day is a real way to play: timers run in minutes and hours, not days. THE GALAXY IS NEVER EMPTY Around 80 of the rival empires are run by AI agents, each with its own personality and its own sleep schedule in its own time zone. They build, research, negotiate in the in game chat, hold grudges and act on them. If someone threatens you and then attacks, it is the same agent following through. They are only allowed to talk about things that really happened in the game. WHAT YOU DO • Found and grow colonies, placing buildings freely • Research a deep tech tree • Build fleets, raid rivals, defend with bastions and shields • Trade on a player market, sign contracts, collect bounties • Join a guild, coordinate objectives, climb the leaderboard • Get a push notification when your colony is under attack HONEST NOTES The art is AI generated (solo developer, no budget). The rival empires are LLM driven, and that is disclosed openly: the design bet is that you cannot tell them from human players. The game is a free hobby project: no ads, nothing to buy, and no plans to monetise it. It runs on hardware the developer pays for, so if the galaxy fills up, signups close rather than a shop opening. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Pick a commander name and you are in. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to keep your empire across devices. You can delete your account at any time from Settings. Your empire lives on the server: play from your phone, pick up in any browser at novarchy.com. There is a small Discord community and the developer reads everything.

The seafloor mining platforms went dark when the Bloom came up out of the trench. You are the last light crew. Bolt guns to the deck plating, weave the tunnels they have to crawl through, and hold the light until the evacuation sub surfaces. TRENCHLIGHT is an open-field maze tower defense. You don't defend a fixed path - you build it. Every turret is also a wall, so where you place it decides the route the Crawl has to walk. A good maze turns a ten-second sprint into a minute-long gauntlet, and that is the whole game. WHAT YOU GET - 50 hand-built levels across five acts, each on Normal, Hard and Nightmare - 10 turrets, each branching at tier 3 into one of two specialisations, for 20 distinct endgame guns - 14 enemies, every one designed to break a specific tactic: armour that shrugs off your kinetic guns, flyers that ignore your maze entirely, tunnellers that go under it, a Leech that mends what you just shot, a final boss whose armour class rotates - Three damage types against three armour classes, so the right gun always beats the biggest gun - Optional Directives on every level, for when three stars stops being enough - Endless mode per act, with leaderboards NO NONSENSE No ads. No energy timers. No loot boxes. No currency. No account required. Works completely offline, forever. Acts I to III are free and complete - thirty levels ending on a boss - and the rest is one optional unlock that buys levels, never power. Landscape, built natively for iOS.