Novarchy
alessio rocchi Games iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Novarchy is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by alessio rocchi. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 329 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v1.518.1
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About Novarchy
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.
What’s new
Version 1.518.1 · Updated October 21, 2026
Since 1.451.3: YOUR BASE • See your whole base from above, with every building named, and find a building on a crowded base by searching for it. • Base Layout: rearrange the whole base, then save it in one go. A building can be demolished. • Gravity Well: a building that gives you time to answer an attack. • Queue several levels of a Tech Tree upgrade at once. The build advisor lets you hide a building you do not want suggested. • Dark Matter buys more Dark Matter: the Siphon, a Rampart on the Particle Accelerator. FLEETS • Defend one colony from all your other colonies in one order, and gather ships from your other colonies in one order. • One defense default for the whole empire. Fleet templates can be saved as proportions that grow with your fleet. • A Battle Sandbox: test a fleet against a defence before you launch a raid. • A pickup can fly up to 10 runs in a row. At most 3 attacks on the same empire in any 15 minutes. • The Targets board can show only the colonies you may hit back for free, and every free reply says how long it has left. THE GALAXY • The galaxy map opens on sector tiles you can tap into, prints system and planet numbers, and says how far a place is and how long your fastest warship takes to get there. • The map reopens where you left it, even after an app restart. Choose the text map over the 3D galaxy map, and the game remembers it. • The Base opens a sheet of your colony's planet traits. GUILDS AND SEASON • Allied guilds can join each other's raids. The guild that holds a contested world can harvest the debris in its orbit. • Guild ranks now run R5 to R1, with a new Veteran rank and four officer titles. • The Commander's Ledger: twenty one-time marks, each paying Dark Matter once. The Season pays a podium in every fleet size. • Every colony you keep in the Event Sector earns season points by the hour. Echelon prizes: Dark Matter for the top three of every tier. • The season's winner can pass the whole prize to another empire of the top ten. ALSO • An in-game Guide explains how the game works, chapter by chapter, in English and Italian. First Steps ends with a guided first explore. • Ten new avatar frames. The Calendar shows the day the guild season ends. • Hundreds of fixes.
App privacy
The developer, alessio rocchi, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Gameplay Content
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
Used for: App Functionality
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:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
Used for: Analytics