Star Cluster Conquest

About the game

Star Cluster Conquest is a fast, minimalist real-time strategy game for mobile. Each star produces ships on its own, at a rate that depends on its size. Just drag your finger from one of your stars to another to launch a fleet: the ships fly as a swarm, add to yours on arrival or fight the enemy star ship by ship. Whoever wipes out the defender takes the star. Whoever dominates the whole map wins.

How to play

• Drag to send. Hold a star to choose how much to send: 25, 50, 75 or 100% of its ships.
• Multi-select: swipe across several of your stars and attack with all of them at once.
• Neutral stars defend and regenerate; full stars stop producing. Knowing when to wait and when to attack is half the victory.
• Short matches of a few minutes, playable offline.

Game modes

• Campaign: 5 guided tutorial levels plus 15 levels of increasing difficulty, each introducing something new. 1 to 3 stars per level, depending on time.
• Skirmish: build your own match. Choose the map size, the number of stars, the terrain and 1 to 5 opponents, with each one's faction and difficulty. Maps are generated from a seed and are always fair: the same seed produces the same map, so you can replay it or challenge friends.

Factions

Each faction has its own color, ship shape and abilities, with 5 upgrade levels.

• Solar Vanguard (aggression and speed): Afterburner speeds up all your ships, Solar Lance makes your next fleet deal more damage and Furnace speeds up production on all your stars.
• Boreal Bastion (defense): Wall reduces the damage a star takes, Retaliation shoots down enemy ships as they approach, Fortify raises a star's cap and production and Winter slows down enemy stars around it.
• Celestial Armada (premium): starts with extra ships and commands a mothership, landings and escorts.
• More factions on the way, each with its own style: mass production, mobility and surprise, bombardment, conversion and space control.

Special stars and terrain

• Special stars give an edge to whoever controls them: boosted attack, boosted defense, faster production and a cannon that shoots down nearby ships.
• Black holes destroy fleets that pass through them; cosmic storms wear down ships along the way. The projected route appears as you drag.

Opponents

AIs with three play styles (aggressive, defensive and hoarder) and three difficulty levels. They use abilities, take the terrain into account and coordinate attacks from several stars.

Boosts

Shield, Quick Reinforcement, EMP and Deep Space Mine: bring up to 2 per match and use them at the right moment. A boost you bring but don't use is not spent.

Progress and economy

Earn Credits by winning and from rating stars. Use Credits to unlock and upgrade abilities and to buy boosts.

Look and sound

Minimalist look on a dark space background, glowing ships with trails, subtle sounds and music. Available in 7 languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Japanese.