Generation Exile Is A Solarpunk City Builder Made By Ex-Triple A Studio Game Devs

Who knew being a final generation of humans on a giant ship means building lovely-looking solar-powered cities in outer space and beyond?

Developer Sonderlust Studios, a company made up of developers who made titles like Gone Home, Baldur’s Gate 3, Mark of the Ninja, and Far Cry 5 + 6, has announced a city-builder game named Generation Exile, where you must rebuild society and your lone human-filled ship’s fragile ecosystems using what you have available. It also comes with a lovely sci-fi soundtrack from Ben Prunty, who made music for the acclaimed titles FTL and Into the Breach.

Check out the trailer & features list below:

Sustainable Solarpunk City-Builder

• Build and rebuild a functioning city, carefully marshalling scarce resources. Tear down inefficient buildings and use their materials to make better ones!
• Craft a sustainable circular economy, using biological waste to grow new vital resources and repurposing material waste into new structures, tools and technologies.
• Lay out your city to maximize benefits, providing synergies to benefit your population’s wellbeing and to restore the ship’s damaged ecosystems.
• Near-future solarpunk setting anchored in real-world ecological calamities and opportunities.

Different Stories

• The ship’s characters are procedurally generated at the start of playthrough, resulting in a unique cast of NPCs every game.
• Events differ in every playthrough, according to large and small choices you make — and how you treat people.
• Aboard this generation ship, characters will form families and you will get to know them as well as their descendants. Memories pass down through generations, meaning choices you made in the past will be remembered in the future.
• Community is important to your survival — but not everyone agrees with each other. You’ll encounter all kinds of people aboard the ship, some of whom are more helpful and friendly than others.
• As you build your society, this will trigger situations and crises where you must determine a path forward. These choices will have consequences for how you manage resources, research new technologies and develop each of the ship’s biomes.
• Build a roster of talented experts to accomplish tasks, each of whom has different skills and traits as well as opinions of one another — not always positive ones!

Vibrant Sci-Fi Visuals

• Striking sci-fi visuals with vibrant, diverse shipboard biomes that you must restore to health to ensure your society can survive.
• Detailed 3D scenes provide more specificity for the ship and its population, raising the bar for narrative strategy games.
• Inhabit and interact with scenes to gather more information before making meaningful decisions.
• Survive and adapt to the strange ecological entity that was never meant to be aboard the ship.

Generation Exile will be out in 2025 for PC. Wishlist it on Steam right now.