01 · Grid Online
Power the Night
Route energy across the colony and keep every module glowing.
ZapNova Games · Sci-Fi City Builder
Build Humanity's Home on a New World.
A next-generation sci-fi city builder set on a mysterious alien planet. Build, expand, and survive. Raise a thriving colony, manage every resource, and uncover the secrets of a hostile new world.
Sci-Fi City BuilderSingle-PlayerComing Soon · PC & Console
LAT −14.207 · LON 88.913
01Chapter One
The signal led us to a world no human has ever touched.
Rust-red plains stretch to a horizon lit by a distant sun. Rivers of raw energy thread the canyons, and the air hums with something we don't yet understand. Nova Origin begins the moment your pod touches the dust. Everything after is yours to shape.
Surface Telemetry
Gravity0.72 g
AtmosphereBreathable · N₂/O₂
Mean temp+12°C
02Chapter Two
Turn a landing site into a city of light.
Lay foundations, raise habitats, and route power through every district. Snap modular structures together, keep your colonists sheltered and thriving, and watch a fragile outpost harden into a home beneath an alien sky.
+240MW
Power
99.4%
Oxygen
1,208
Colonists
POWER +240MW
O₂ STABLE
LIVE COLONY GRID
↔Drag through the build log
02 · Expansion
Claim the Plains
Turn rust-red desert into a settlement that stretches past the horizon.
03 · Logistics
Automate Supply
Link extractors, factories and depots into one living network.
04 · Habitation
Shelter Colonists
Raise habitats that turn a frontier outpost into a home.
03Chapter Three
No maps. No settlements. No history. Only an untouched world waiting to be explored.
Deploy survey rovers to chart unexplored sectors, identify valuable resources, and reveal the terrain one expedition at a time. Every mission expands humanity's understanding of this new world and brings you closer to building its first civilization.
12%Surveyed
18Sectors Charted
8.4 kmExplored
Field Log 07
“The dunes shift overnight. What we charted yesterday is gone by dawn, and the map is never the same twice.”
SCANNING SURFACE…
Region
Uncharted Territory
Rock spires and untouched flats hide the richest deposits, if you can reach them.
Biome
Alien Flora
A living ecology that reacts to your colony's every move.
04Chapter Four
Automate the grind so you can chase the horizon.
Chain extractors to refineries, refineries to depots, and power to everything between. Build production lines that never sleep, so your hands stay free for the next frontier instead of the last one.
Extract
Automated rigs pull raw ore from the crust.
Refine
Processors smelt ore into usable alloys.
Distribute
Drone routes carry supply across the colony.
1.2k/minThroughput
240 MWPower draw
99.4%Uptime
05Chapter Five
Districts bleed into districts until the light reaches the mountains. Balance the grid, manage the sprawl, and stand for a moment in the glow of a city that didn't exist a hundred hours ago.
District 01
The Terraces
4,200 colonists
District 02
The Glow Quarter
120 structures
District 03
The Overlook
+680 MW grid
///Core Systems
Six systems, one living world. Every colony you raise is a machine you designed.
Build
Snap modular habitats, factories and power grids into a living colony.
Explore
Send rovers past the map's edge and scan for what the signal hides.
Automate
Chain extractors to refineries and let production run itself.
Expand
Grow one beacon into a metropolis that reaches the mountains.
A Living World
An alien ecology that reacts to everything you build.
Single-Player
A full campaign with save-anytime freedom, adjustable difficulty and controller support.
///Live From the Store Page
Straight from the Steam gallery. This is the colony as players will find it on day one.
//Roadmap
From final testing to launch and the updates beyond it. Here's where the colony is headed.
Phase 01
Production Complete
Final testing- Core gameplay complete
- Full campaign & content
- Polish, balance & optimization
- Internal QA
Phase 02
Launch
After certification- Steam launch
- Platform certification
- First colonies open
Phase 03
First Content Update
Q4 2026- New maps & campaigns
- Sandbox mode
- More buildings & technologies
- Quality-of-life & performance
//Studio Profile
ZapNova Games is an independent studio in Greater Bangkok, Thailand. We are a small team carrying decades of combined experience across mobile, PC and console, and we started this studio to make the kind of games we have always wanted to play.
We build for players first, and we are not tied to one genre. We care less about chasing trends and more about worlds that hold up: systems that reward curiosity, and craft you can feel in the details. Nova Origin is our debut, a single-player sci-fi colony builder, and the first proof of what we set out to do.
We are only getting started.
Independent StudioDebut · Nova Origin
//Leadership
Every journey begins with a small team and a big dream.
01Rupesh Korgaonkar
Managing Director
Rupesh brings 21 years and counting across mobile, PC and console, spanning game design, production, product management and studio leadership. He has sat in nearly every chair a game passes through on its way to players, and he sets the creative direction for Nova Origin.
02Sumittra Tumklang
Managing Director
Sumittra leads strategic growth and business operations, and holds the studio's long-term vision. She builds the foundation that lets the team take real creative risks and keeps ZapNova steady enough to chase big ones.
03Rajul Goyal
Technical Director
Rajul leads engineering, architecture and development across the studio. He owns the technical foundation Nova Origin runs on, and holds the line on performance and quality so the world never gets in the way of playing it.
//Origin
No big publisher. No war chest. Just a group of lifelong gamers who decided to build the game they kept wishing someone else would make.
Nova Origin came together over long nights and hard problems, one system at a time, until a signal on a blank map became a game we are proud to put our name on. Every call was ours to make, and we made them for the player on the other side of the screen. That is the part no budget can buy.
This is our first world, not our last. We are not just building games. We are building worlds, and we are glad you are here for the first one.
06Chapter Six · The Future
One small colony today. A thriving human world tomorrow.
Nova Origin lands in Early Access soon. Wishlist now and you’ll be first through the airlock when the frontier opens.
- Deep, modular base-building
- Automated production & logistics
- Rover-driven exploration
- Full controller support & achievements
Wishlist on Steam to be notified the moment the first colony opens.PCConsole
Coming to
Windows PCConsole
Launching on PC first. Console releases planned.