SHAFT DEFENCE
Defend the drill floor from rogue drones descending the mine shaft.
ARROWS TO MOVE // SPACE TO FIRE
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TERMINAL INCOMPATIBLE
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ROCK BREAK
Clear the Minerva-6 shipping lane. Break rocks into fragments before they hit you.
ARROWS TO THRUST & TURN // SPACE TO FIRE
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ORE VEIN
Trace the mineral seam through rock. Collect ore deposits before the vein collapses.
ARROWS TO MOVE
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TERMINAL INCOMPATIBLE
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One persistent world. Multiple games. A universe that never stops running.
Orebituary is a connected science-fiction RPG universe set 300 years in the future, spanning Earth, Minerva-6 and further undisclosed sectors. Mine, trade, survive and influence a living industrial civilisation built around systems rather than scripted set-pieces. Economies, factions, weather, politics, decay and consequences continue moving whether you are there or not.
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STATUSACTIVE PROBE
Orebituary is not being designed as a single isolated game. It is a game universe where separate game experiences can exist in parallel while still influencing the same underlying universe and each other.
NODE ID // EARTH-CORE
COORD // 51.507°N / 0.128°W
The old centre of civilisation still controls finance, communications, politics and the trade dependencies that keep the outer colonies alive. Earth is 300 years ahead of our present and still shaping the fate of worlds it no longer fully understands.
NODE ID // MINERVA-6
COORD // 42.118°N / 208.34°W
A cursed industrial mining planet built on extraction, survival and slow collapse. Beneath the surface, automated systems continue operating while markets shift, resources degrade and forgotten machinery keeps digging.
SIGNAL LOCKED
NODE ID // ████████
COORD // ██.███° / ███.██°
A third game location remains classified. It will extend the universe beyond the Earth-colony relationship and open another layer of consequence inside the wider Orebituary network.
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ACCESS DENIED // INSUFFICIENT CLEARANCE
Most games wait for the player before anything meaningful happens. Orebituary is designed the other way round: the systems exist first, the world keeps moving, and the player enters an environment that already has its own memory, pressure and momentum.
The Orebituary universe is built on interdependent systems. Each one feeds into the next. Disruption in one layer cascades through the rest. There is no pause button and no reset.
Automated drills pull raw ore from beneath the surface. Output varies by depth, equipment condition, and weather. When the cutters stop, everything downstream starves.
Smelters process raw material into tradeable commodities. Yield depends on power supply and maintenance state. Neglected refineries produce less and cost more to run.
Freight moves between hubs on fixed lanes. Routes collapse when infrastructure decays or factions blockade chokepoints. Rerouting costs time the market does not give back.
Prices shift based on supply, demand, and political interference. No fixed values. No safety nets. Fortunes change between login sessions.
Groups compete for territory, contracts, and influence. Alliances form and break based on economic pressure. Loyalty is a resource that depletes under strain.
Legislation, embargoes, and subsidies ripple through every other system. Decisions made on Earth reach Minerva-6 late. By the time policy arrives, conditions have already shifted.
Dust storms, acid rain, and ion shear disrupt extraction and transport. The grid adapts or it does not. Forecasting is unreliable. Planning around it is worse.
Everything degrades. Unattended infrastructure rusts, routes close, machinery fails. The universe does not wait for maintenance crews. Neglect has consequences.
Intercepted field reports, comms fragments, and incident logs from across Minerva-6. New intelligence rotates as the network processes incoming signals.
Current state of the Orebituary universe. All values are pulled from the running world. These readings update in real time as systems interact.
Future standalone experiences are planned for retro-inspired systems such as the Commodore 64 Ultimate, ZX Spectrum Next and Vectrex reboot. These are not simple ports or streaming clients. Each can become its own small game, exchanging tiny data payloads with the wider Orebituary universe so actions in one environment can influence another.
Early character development for Orebituary - inhabitants, crew and operatives drawn from the Minerva-6 colony. Concept art only; not in-engine capture.
NODE ID // VEX-017
SECTOR // MINERVA-6
Corridor Operative
She keeps appearing in feeds from corridors sealed for maintenance - on nights the colony swears were empty. Someone revoked her clearance. Nobody revoked her keys.
NODE ID // LAB-044
SECTOR // MINERVA-6
Field Analyst
They rebuilt him to read the deep instruments. What returns through his relay describes strata the survey maps insist were never opened.
NODE ID // M6-FRM-009
SECTOR // MINERVA-6
Miner Foreman
She would not sign Iron Maw over to the machines. The cutters went in without her - twelve names on her roster never surfaced.
NODE ID // ORBIT-12
SECTOR // TRANSIT LANE
Shuttle Officer
Her visor logs every embarkation. Last week's manifest names passengers her shuttle never delivered - and never brought back.
VISUAL DEVELOPMENT // CONCEPT ART ONLY — NOT IN-ENGINE FOOTAGE
Full build logs are published on Patreon - click a transmission to read.
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Orebituary is a connected science-fiction RPG universe set 300 years in the future. It is not a single game. It is a persistent world where multiple game experiences exist in parallel, all influencing the same underlying simulation.
Multiple. Each game is a different entry point into the same universe. Actions in one game can influence conditions in another. The world does not reset between sessions or between titles.
The world continues. Markets fluctuate, factions evolve, resources are consumed, weather systems mutate, and infrastructure decays whether you are logged in or not. You return to a world that has moved on without you.
The primary experience is web-based. Future standalone experiences are planned for retro-inspired hardware including the Commodore 64 Ultimate, ZX Spectrum Next, and Vectrex reboot, each exchanging data with the wider universe.
Three locations: Earth (the old centre of civilisation), Minerva-6 (a cursed industrial mining planet), and a third undisclosed sector that remains classified. Each location represents a different game experience within the connected universe.
Not yet. The universe is running but player access has not opened. Beta access will roll out in stages to waiting list members first. Join the list to secure early entry.
Join the waiting list on this page for direct updates, or read the full build logs published on Patreon. Development reports cover world systems, technical architecture, and design decisions as they happen.
Orebituary is an independent project. Development updates and team information are shared through the build logs on Patreon.
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