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Run an underground portal program: build its research base, manage specialist crews, and send them to explore alien worlds.
Released 28 Jan 2025
Build An Underground Base
Send Teams Through Portals
Choose Mission Outcomes
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Developed by Xeno Bits · Published by Xeno Bits
As head of an international portal initiative, you excavate and develop an underground facility to support journeys through Exogates to distant worlds. Build rooms for research, medical care, equipment, housing, and other needs as the operation grows.
Recruit and train specialists, assemble teams, and send them on missions to explore planets, gather samples, and encounter alien life. Expeditions unfold through reports and events where you make key decisions that can affect their outcomes.
Use discoveries to research technology, develop equipment, and secure funding for further expansion. Meanwhile, manage your crew’s needs and morale, gather resources, and navigate relations or conflict with other factions across the galaxy.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its portal-expedition loop, combining crew management, alien-world discoveries, research, and base growth. Mission reports and their choices add personality, while the science-fiction setting and base-management style are a particular draw for some players. Reviews also frequently describe the experience as becoming repetitive or thin later on.
Exogate Initiative is a management/base-building game that’ll take you from a humble rec room to the edge of creation. In the near future, a new technology allows us to travel instantly to anywhere in the universe via portals known as Exogates. An international initiative is created to develop these portals and explore the worlds beyond.
As head of the initiative, you’ll lead mankind into the vast unknown, where we never dreamed to tread.
Plan, excavate and build a sprawling underground research facility.
Dig anywhere on the map & add new rooms and specialised equipment as the initiative grows in scope.
Make a home away from home! You will need to provide for your team's emotional and physical needs.
Defend your base from hostile aliens and study them to unlock new weapons
Recruit, train and manage specialists from all around the universe.
Recruit explorers, known as ‘Gaters’ (humans or aliens), to explore and study the universe. Gaters are fully autonomous and come with a unique background.
Unlock new classes as you play. You’ll need scientists to study flora and fauna, scholars to decipher, soldiers to keep everyone safe and more.
Care for your team as they face the unknown. Ensure they have the right equipment, as well as food, shelter and emotional support.
Team members will develop relationships with each other and will mourn when someone dies.
Assemble a team of experts and send them across the universe through the Exogate.
Resist, defeat and negotiate with other factions thanks to a dedicated 4X gameplay.
Gaters perform missions autonomously but will check in with you for crucial decisions. Interact with our explorers, make life-to-death decisions and discover endless possible outcomes
Make contact with alien life, and write reports about your discovery to secure financing.
Teams will return with samples that can be developed into valuable new technology. Earn money for your investors and help the initiative grow.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 44 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
