Space colony builder · Real-time strategy
Settle empty star systems, build supply chains that run on ships, and hold your ground against two rival empires.
Phones and tablets
No install, no account. Plays in English, Ukrainian and German.
Every empire buys its warp engines from Jovian Europa. Nobody regulated the fuel. Then gladium was found, and settling an empty system became the quietest way to start a war.
One for all and all for the Kish.
A Cossack federation of self-governing palankas and elected otamans. Fast to settle, stubborn to dislodge, and organised for war only when the Kish is raised.
Autonomy of the palankas, a strong drive toward semi-independent existence for elders and settlements, and extremely high population mobility.
Story campaign: six missions, playable now.
The Emperor's word is law.
An empire of assignments and registers, ruled by an Emperor elected for life. Disciplined, endlessly replenished, and certain that a person without an assignment has no place in creation.
All men are soldiers of the empire. It can expand its enormous fleet fairly quickly through genetic alteration and mass mobilization.
Playable in every map and in multiplayer. Its own campaign is in development.
Serve the corporation, and the corporation will serve you.
A shareholders' republic of chartered corporations. Its fleet is advanced and expensive, its crews are contractors, and every colony is an investment with a return date.
Military service is entirely mercenary and works as a social elevator. The fleet is technologically advanced, but expensive to maintain and slow to replace after losses.
Playable in every map and in multiplayer. Its own campaign is in development.
Each empire flies its own hulls for the same three roles, plus one ship nobody else can build. Compare them and pick the line you want to hold.
Interceptor
The Hetmanate's most common warship: a single-seat interceptor that trades armour for speed and screens the fleet with twin lasers.
Every warship serves through three ranks. A promotion refits the hull in bronze, silver and then gold, and each refit bolts on more weapons.
Inspired by The Settlers 3 and 4: every chunk of ice, sand, metal and food is carried by a real ship along a real route. Build the chain, then defend it.
Ice to water, sand to glass, sunlight to batteries. Freighters carry each load from mine to factory to shipyard, and you can follow every one of them.
Crewed Towers project your border. Kill the crew and the Tower goes dark, the border collapses, and every world inside it is up for grabs.
Fleets clash in real time with lasers, plasma, melta and missiles. Freighters and builders are never targets, so a war is won on ground, not on piracy.
Six Hetmanate missions take you from a Palankar's first commission to the war council of the Kish, against pirates, a Sun prefecture and a Corporate holding.
Duel a friend or fight on maps for four and six colonies. Share a room code; the game runs peer to peer, straight from the browser.
Play in the browser right now. The Android version for phones and tablets is open for pre-registration on Google Play; the App Store follows.
Production chain
Metal is not dug out of the ground in one go: it is grown, mined and smelted. Follow one chain from the planet's seas to the shipyard. Every arrow is a real freighter run you can watch on the map.
Freighter run, one chunk per trip Planet building Space station
Coming from The Settlers?
Looking for a game like The Settlers III or IV? This is the same loop of carried goods, production chains and tower-held borders, moved into space, played in real time, and free in your browser.
| The Settlers III / IV | Loca Deserta: Settlers | |
|---|---|---|
| TransportSame idea | Carriers walk every good, one at a time, between buildings and stockpiles. | Freighter ships fly every good, one chunk per trip, between planets and stations. You can follow every run. |
| Production chainsSame idea | Wood, stone, ore, coal and food feed smelters, smiths and the army. | Ice, sand, minerals, grain and sunlight feed smelters, factories and shipyards. |
| Feeding the minesSame idea | Miners need food, so farms, fishers and bakers keep the ore coming. | The Iron Mine runs on Grain. Starve the Fields and the ore stops. |
| Stores and prioritiesSame idea | Each building buffers a few units of every good; you set transport priorities and how goods are shared out. | Each building buffers up to 8 chunks of every good; you set goods priority and the split between construction and production. |
| TerritorySame idea | Garrisoned towers and castles push out your border; lose them and the land goes with them. | Crewed Towers project your border; kill the crew and the border collapses. |
| PeoplesSame idea | Each people builds in its own style, with its own soldiers. | Three empires, each with its own architecture, its own hulls and one ship nobody else can build. |
| SettingDifferent | Ancient and medieval lands on a tile map. | Star systems: planets, asteroid fields and orbital stations. |
| WorkersDifferent | Every building needs a settler, often with a tool, before it runs. | Buildings run on their inputs alone; ships do the carrying and the building. |
| Raw resourcesDifferent | Foresters replant trees; ore seams run out. | Each asteroid holds 40 chunks and runs out; planet sources keep producing. |
| CombatDifferent | Swordsmen and bowmen fight on foot. | Warship fleets fight in real time with lasers, plasma, melta and missiles, and earn bronze, silver and gold ranks. Freighters are never targets. |
| How you playDifferent | A PC game you buy and install. | Free in the browser, with no install and no account. Multiplayer runs peer to peer. |
Yes. Loca Deserta: Settlers keeps the carried-goods economy, the production chains and the tower-held borders of The Settlers III and IV, and moves them to star systems, where freighter ships do the carrying and warship fleets do the fighting. It is free to play in the browser at settlers.locadeserta.com/game/.
There are no walking settlers: freighters fly every load, buildings run without workers, and the army is a fleet of warships fighting in real time. The world is planets, asteroids and stations instead of a tile map, and the game runs in a browser.
No. It is an independent game and a tribute. The Settlers® is a registered trademark of Ubisoft Entertainment, and Loca Deserta: Settlers is not affiliated with Ubisoft or Blue Byte.
No. It is free and runs in any modern desktop browser with WebGL, in English, Ukrainian and German. The Android version is open for pre-registration on Google Play, and an App Store version is on the way.
Mines cut into the rock, fields cover the ground, smelters glow, and shipyards launch what the furnaces make. Each empire raises its colonies in its own style, from Ukrainian Baroque orbital fortresses to imperial red and corporate steel.
Real frames from the game: colonies at work, fleets on the move, and what is left after they meet.
One-minute spots for the Hetmanate Space Fleet, rendered from the game's own hulls, skies and explosions.
As long as the Tavrs hold the line, the Hetmanate holds the cosmos.
Their Thunderbirds jam our guns. The Lom never needed one.
The game is one corner of a larger setting: three empires that divided the stars by lottery on Mars, a scientific republic on Jovian Europa that holds the secret of warp, and centuries of history behind every hull.
From the first warp jump in year 0 of the Stellar Era to the empires of today.
Each emperor drew tickets for a sector of the sky. The Hetmanate drew the one with the Canis Major Void.
The demilitarised moon where warp was invented, and where every empire still buys its engines.
Why a jump needs a gas giant, a reactor and lawrencium or nobelium, and why only the largest ships can make one.
Anyone who will not submit to the Star Sich: deserters, retired Cossacks and bandits who sit on other people's worlds.
The game is in active development and free to play. New missions, hulls and buildings keep arriving.