A season-based space empire game for iPhone. Build your star empire, command your fleets in live tactical battles, and fight with your alliance for the Nebula Crown.
The iPhone beta is open. Join the waitlist and tick the box to get a TestFlight invite.
What makes it differentWhy it's different
We love what made classic browser space-strategy games addictive — a deep economy, real stakes, alliance warfare. We're rebuilding it without the parts that made it unplayable: getting farmed while you sleep, spreadsheet UI, and servers where joining late means you've already lost.
Five minutes should matter. No idle grinding, no round-the-clock babysitting your empire.
Losses hurt, but a bad night's sleep never wipes out your empire. Vault-protected resources and raid caps keep the game fair.
The social layer isn't bolted on — rally fleets, reinforce allies, and fight for territory together, in real time.
Every season starts everyone on equal footing. No eternal top-1% who joined two years ago and never left.
"Holographic Command": a glowing tactical console, not another painted sci-fi skin.
In your command deck
A first hour that keeps moving, and a game that keeps giving you real choices long after.
Live, seeded battles you can actually influence — choose a formation and doctrine, then play ability cards in real time if you're online when the fight breaks out. Every battle is a replay you can watch again, not a dice roll that happened while you were asleep.
Send a fleet into deep space with no fixed destination. Card-based choices — loot, chart new worlds, or risk an ambush — resolved deterministically, so every run is fair and replayable.
Rally an attack, reinforce a besieged ally, and fight together for territory — building toward the season's climax: a siege on the Nebula Core.
Optional purchases help fund the servers, but power isn't for sale. No gacha, no pay-to-instantly-win — Crown-season cosmetics and leaderboard titles are earned, not bought.
Tap a target, pick a mission, go. Fuel and cargo calculate themselves — no more four-page dispatch forms.
Designed for real sessions on a real phone, with push and Live Activities so you never miss the moment that matters. iPad, then a Vision Pro Command Deck, follow later.
Building in the open
Nebula Kings is being built right now — server, client, and combat, piece by piece — by a solo developer working with an AI co-pilot. There's no release date yet.
The beta is open on TestFlight. Join the waitlist and tick the beta box to get an invite now, or join the waitlist alone and hear from us at launch.
Questions
iPhone first. iPad support comes with it; a Vision Pro "Command Deck" and a glanceable layer for Apple's glasses are planned for later.
Now, on iPhone: the beta is open on TestFlight. Join the waitlist, tick "I also want to join the iPhone beta", and we'll send a TestFlight invite to that email. The game is still in active development, so expect resets and rough edges.
Free to download and play. There will be optional in-app purchases — subscriptions, cosmetics, a season pass — but no gacha and no pay-to-instantly-win. Power isn't for sale, and the status items you chase are earned in-game, not bought.
No. Nebula Kings is an original game inspired by classic browser space-strategy mechanics — no shared IP, art, or text with any other title.
The beta is open