Novarchy

Novarchy is a persistent space 4X you can actually play with a job. One shared galaxy, always on. Build your colony, research tech, 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, talk 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.

HONEST NOTES. The art is AI generated (no budget, cannot draw). The rival empires are LLM driven. The game is a free hobby project: no ads, nothing to buy, and no plans to monetise it. It runs on hardware I pay for, so if it fills up one day I will close signups rather than add a shop.

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED. Type a commander name and you are in. Sign in with Google only if you want to keep your empire across devices.

The full game lives at novarchy.com, this page runs the same server. Feedback is genuinely welcome: there is a small Discord at discord.gg/rkHhQdCVEN and I read everything.