Novarchy
Space 4X with living AI rivals
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Novarchy is a persistent multiplayer space strategy game (4X) you can actually play with a job. One shared galaxy, always on. Build your colony, research technology, 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, negotiate 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.
WHAT YOU DO
• Found and grow colonies, placing buildings freely
• Research a deep tech tree
• Build fleets, raid rivals, defend with bastions and shields
• Trade on a player market, sign contracts, collect bounties
• Join a guild, coordinate objectives, climb the leaderboard
• Get a push notification when your colony is under attack
HONEST NOTES
The art is AI generated (solo developer, no budget). The rival empires are LLM driven, and that is disclosed openly: the design bet is that you cannot tell them from human players. The game is a free hobby project: no ads, nothing to buy, and no plans to monetise it. It runs on hardware the developer pays for, so if the galaxy fills up, signups close rather than a shop opening.
NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
Pick a commander name and you are in. Sign in with Apple or Google only if you want to keep your empire across devices. You can delete your account at any time from Settings.
Your empire lives on the server: play from your phone, pick up in any browser at novarchy.com. There is a small Discord community and the developer reads everything.
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Fifty releases since the last store update. The highlights:
MAP AND NAVIGATION
• One map, no descent: planets are drawn on the galaxy map itself, with a door into each system view.
• The system list marks the planets you have already probed.
• The Orbital Home: your capital's orbit is a place you can visit and defend.
ECONOMY
• Supply lanes: your colonies feed each other while you sleep.
• The Trade Portal works from any colony, and you choose where a purchase lands. Every level now buys something.
• Useful upgrades at every level for the Recycler, Colonial Outpost, Hyperspace Relay, Particle Accelerator and the Eschaton Veil, all the way to level 30.
• The offer composer tells you what you will actually be paid, and warns before incoming goods overfill a warehouse.
FLEETS AND WAR
• You choose what flies on a pursuit and on a standing watch.
• The Shipyard shows where the rest of your fleet is. Every saved order is reachable again.
• The raid report says what limited your haul. Overkill now spills over to the next target instead of vanishing.
• The best spy report shows the fleets standing on the target, not only those that left it.
GUILDS
• The threat board shows who is already flying to a colony, not just who has landed.
• The guild panel tells you when your fleet lands before you commit it.
• The guild log records who left, and when.
RIVAL EMPIRES
• Synthetic empires now scout, strike, garrison, run freighters, shield their warehouses, keep a treasury and come back for the colony that paid. They are harder, and more honest about it.
Plus dozens of fixes to combat maths, reports, the resource band and the leaderboards. Full notes: novarchy.com/changelog
The developer, alessio rocchi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- alessio rocchi
- Size
- 152.1 MB
- Category
- Strategy
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alessio Rocchi
