GALAXICAN
Merge fleets. Take the galaxy.
Real-time strategy stripped to its bones.
Free during the open beta — $2.99 at launch.
No ads · no accounts · plays offline
iOS installs via Apple’s TestFlight · Android uses a free Play code
Your stars make ships. Ships take stars. Everything else is your decision.
No bases to build, no tech tree to memorise, no timers waiting on your attention. Select a swarm, send it, and watch a galaxy change hands.
Merging makes mass
Five motes fuse into a squad worth more than five motes. Three squads fuse into a battleship worth more than three squads. Convert that battleship into a tower and it becomes a permanent gun emplacement — the best trade in the game.
So every ship you own is a question. Throw it at the enemy now, or hold it, merge it, and hit twice as hard in twenty seconds? The AI knows this too.
The far star is worth more
Stars have a capacity, and the good ones sit in contested space. Grab the cheap neighbours and out-tempo your opponent, or push for the middle and out-produce them later. There is no correct answer — only a board and a clock.
A fair fight, deliberately
Every map is rotationally symmetric and both sides start identical: same stars, same tiers, same distances. The AI plays named strategies — expansionists sprawl, raiders harass, consolidators mass a doom stack and walk it into your capital. When you lose, it was you.
Thirty boards, ninety challenges
Recognisable shapes
Diamond, circle, cross, hourglass, figure-eight, spiral — from a nine-star opener to a twenty-six-star finale.
Three speeds, earned
Clear a level at normal to unlock fast, at fast to unlock extreme. At 3× the optimal line is a different line.
Six regions
Outer Spiral Arm to The Ancient Void, each with its own palette and its own kind of pressure.
Staged learning
Level one is motes and stars. Two adds fusion. Three adds towers. Nothing is explained before you need it.
What this game will never do
- No ads. Not banners, not rewarded video, not “watch this to continue”.
- No in-app purchases. All thirty levels are unlocked from the first launch.
- No energy timers, no daily rewards, no notifications begging you back.
- No accounts, no sign-in, no data collection of any kind.
- No internet permission at all — it cannot phone home, by construction.
Plays offline on a plane. That’s the whole arrangement.
The beta is open now
It closes when Galaxican launches at $2.99. Join while it’s free and the feedback you send still changes the game.
Requirements
| iOS | iOS 13.0 or later — iPhone and iPad |
|---|---|
| Android | Android 5.0 (API 21) or later |
| Size | Small. No downloads after install. |
| Network | Never required, and never used. |