Novafall: Idle Space Empire
Robert Gonzales Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Novafall: Idle Space Empire is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Robert Gonzales. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated September 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 45 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Sep 21
- 2026 · v1.7.0
Screenshots
About Novafall: Idle Space Empire
Novafall is an idle space-strategy game. Build a fleet, colonize 64 worlds across 16 sectors, and hold them against three rival empires. When a run slows down, ascend: the galaxy resets, and the Dark Matter you keep buys permanent upgrades for every run after. THREE RIVAL EMPIRES The Vex Hegemony, the Krillix Swarm and the Hollow Court each claim part of the map. Once your empire is big enough, they besiege your colonies and run spy operations against you. Invade their worlds, buy them outright, or sign a truce. Your government decides which of them treat you as kin and which as an enemy. WHAT'S IN IT • 30 ship classes, from the Probe Drone to the Omega Fleet • 64 planets: terran and ocean worlds, gas giants, mining, volcanic, crystal and relic worlds • Espionage: spy cells, counter-intelligence and a signature operation for each government • Five alien species you can win over with gifts, for alliances and tribute • Six wonders, a Senate with edicts, and a galactic stock market • Ten ministers you appoint to automate the empire one system at a time • NOVA, your ship's advisor, ranks what to do next ASCENSION • Spend Dark Matter on permanent upgrades that carry into every run • 8 challenge runs with handicaps, each giving a permanent yield bonus • A weekly galactic anomaly, and double Dark Matter from ascensions on weekends • 26 achievements, milestones and a 7-day supply drop HOW IT'S SOLD • No forced ads. The only ad is a sponsor broadcast you choose to watch for a bonus. • Purchases are optional. Dark Matter and warp time are earned by playing. The six Precursor Relics are the one thing only the shop provides. • Novafall does not track you and does not ask for tracking permission. • Your save backs up to your own iCloud. • Progress continues while you are away, and the game plays offline.
What’s new
Version 1.7.0 · Updated September 21, 2026
Everything in the game is drawn now. The emoji are gone. All 30 ship classes have their own silhouette, drawn as one family, so the list reads as a ladder from the Probe Drone to the Omega Fleet. The three rival empires, the five species and the bosses fly their own crests. Every upgrade, achievement, wonder and mission has a drawn icon instead of whatever picture your phone's font happened to supply. All 64 worlds are drawn individually: continents and ice caps, banded gas giants, cratered mining worlds, lava cracks, crystal fields, Precursor ring-works. Colonies light up across their night side as you develop them. NOVA talks less. Routine log lines now tell you what happened and the numbers instead of ending on a joke, and the writing across the game is plainer. Fixes: the war advisor no longer says "Engage the The Void Lords", and the bank hint credited the wrong government with doubling your interest.
App privacy
The developer, Robert Gonzales, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data, Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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