Below The Layer vs Starbase Tycoon

Take command of a submarine in a tactical simulation where every decision matters. Read the ocean, interpret uncertain contacts, exploit the thermal layer, and decide when to evade or strike. No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. The complete game is yours from the moment you dive. Listen through passive sonar, classify contacts, and maneuver to turn uncertain bearings into a firing solution. Close the range, prepare your tubes, and decide whether the shot is worth revealing your position. Every choice has a cost. Speed helps you intercept, but it raises self-noise. The thermal layer may hide you—or conceal the enemy. A periscope observation can tighten a solution, but an exposed mast can betray you. Every torpedo launch leaves a datum that escorts, helicopters, and hostile submarines may investigate. FEATURES - Read faint contacts on a scrolling broadband waterfall, then dissect their signatures in narrowband - Build honest target-motion solutions from bearing rate, geometry, and your own maneuvers—not omniscient map markers - Risk raising the periscope to sweep the horizon, estimate range, and judge angle on the bow - Operate a working torpedo room: power, program, flood, open, fire, secure, and reload four independent tubes - Keep launched weapons on the guidance wire until their active seekers take over - Carry out changing patrol orders involving interception, reconnaissance, navigation, identification, and weapons-tight restrictions - Outsmart escorts, ASW helicopters, and hostile submarines that search for where they think you are - Exploit depth, silence, thermal layers, bottom terrain, maneuver, and decoys to break the enemy’s picture - Cross long patrol distances under time compression that yields when danger arrives - Face reproducible seeded patrols where imperfect information makes every decision matter Your crew handles routine classification and procedure. You decide where to listen, which contact to track, when to expose the boat, when to fire, and when to break contact and return home. Below the Layer rewards patience, geometry, stealth, and judgment—not reflex shooting.

Take command of your own starbase in a deep-space tycoon sim with charming pixel art. Start with a lonely docking ring in the dark between stars. Build reactors, hydroponics, quarters, bars and science labs. Welcome freighters, liners, pilgrims and science vessels. Recruit a crew, keep them happy, and grow a sleepy outpost into the busiest port in the sector. BUILD YOUR STATION - Over 40 rooms: reactors, shield emitters, cargo bays, cantinas, holo-theatres, observatories and more - Upgrade rooms, research new tech and climb from Class I outpost to Class V starbase - Choose a specialisation: Trade Hub, Science Outpost, Fortress or Resort - Paint your hull and give your station its own style RUN A LIVING CREW - Every crew member has a personality, needs, friendships and even romances - Assign officers, promote your best people and keep morale high - Feed the station, balance power and air, and keep logistics flowing DOCK, TRADE AND DEFEND - Ten ship classes, each with their own needs and contracts - Earn standing with four factions - Fight off raiders with shields and weapons - 70+ story events, famous visitors and station festivals A FULL CAREER - 10 sectors, 30 hand-made assignments in remote corners of space: wreck fields, comet tails, red giants, black holes and the void between galaxies - Veteran remixes for experienced captains - Daily and weekly orders - Sandbox mode with everything unlocked MORE - 36 Game Center achievements and 5 leaderboards - Progress backed up to iCloud - Photo mode, a selectable space soundtrack, three text sizes and 10 languages Play the first three sectors free. One purchase unlocks the full game: all 10 sectors, Sandbox and Veteran missions. Nothing to wait for, nothing to refill, and no adverts.