What you get
- Sandbox mode. Build on any world with unlimited money, instant construction and all technologies unlocked.
- The scenario editor. Set the terms yourself and write worlds of your own.
- Fork any world. Take a shipped world or a shared one, copy it, and pull the copy out of shape.
- A tenth to cancer research. VITE_PRICE is the price, and a tenth of it is passed on, from every single sale.
The checkout is Paddle’s, the merchant of record for the sale, and it loads only when you press the button. Your code arrives the moment payment completes, in an email from code@powerstate-game.com. Prices may carry VAT depending on where you are; the checkout shows the final figure before anything is charged.
- The simulation itself: the same engine and the same physics, over a full sixty year run.
- Play all included worlds and worlds shared with you through a link.
- The guided lesson, for a first colony with the desk explained.
- Your run saved in this browser, with no account behind it.
- No adverts, and no limit on how long you play.
How the unlock works
There is no account and no login. Paying opens Paddle’s checkout, and the moment it completes a supporter code is emailed to the address you bought with. Enter the code once, in the game, and this copy stays unlocked without needing a connection afterwards.
The code comes from code@powerstate-game.com, which is worth knowing before you need it: a code filed as spam looks exactly like a code that was never sent, and that is the address to search your mailbox for. It is a sending address only. info@powerstate-game.com is where mail to a person goes.
A code works on up to three devices at once. Slots are yours to move: any unlocked copy can hand its slot back from About inside the game, and the slot is free again immediately. A code that never arrives, or a slot stuck on a dead machine, is fixed by a mail to info@powerstate-game.com.
The free game stays what it is. Nothing that is free today moves behind the price, and a run started free carries on untouched if you support later.
Giving back
A tenth of the price of every sale is passed on to cancer research. Revenue, not profit: it comes off the top, from the first sale onwards, before any cost of making the game.
This is a personal matter rather than a marketing line. I owe the years I am spending on this game to that research. Without it I would not be here to write any of this, and giving part of everything the game earns back to it is the most honest thanks I can offer. The locked features in the game say it on their labels for the same reason: if you buy, you should know that a slice of what you paid went there.
The share is fixed and it is not a launch offer. If you want to know where the money went, ask at info@powerstate-game.com and you will get a straight answer.
Questions about it
Anything this page does not answer goes to info@powerstate-game.com, or to r/powerstate, where the answer is public.