Press kit

Everything you need to write about Slowlight. Screenshots, clips and the logo may be used freely in coverage of the game.

Fact sheet

Name: Slowlight
Genre: Space MMO, trading, exploration
Status: In development (pre-alpha)
Platforms: Windows and Linux; macOS builds for some releases
Price: Free while in development
Languages: English, Turkish
Latest version: v0.2.0 · October 12, 2026
First public release: v0.1.0 · October 11, 2026
Website: slowlight.mynodes.xyz
News feed: RSS

In one sentence

A live space MMO where news travels only as fast as your ship.

About the game

Slowlight is a live space MMO built on one rule: nothing in the galaxy travels faster than a ship. There is no instant network, no galaxy-wide chat and no live market. Prices, maps, pirate sightings and news move only in ships' data banks, so knowing something before others is worth money, and carrying news is a job.

The galaxy is ruled by the Kapihan Dominion, which holds the permanent gates and decides through its Bureau of Tidings what is true. Against it stand the couriers and hole-weavers of the Open Way, a besieged mining republic, and a merchant league that trades with everyone. Players fly their own ships with Newtonian physics, land on planets whose cities stay the same from version to version, and will open and defend their own wormholes.

Key features

Information moves by ship: every price and every rumour has an age, and fresh news is cargo.
One live server: every captain flies in the same galaxy.
Newtonian flight with an optional flight assist, flown from a cockpit with live instruments.
Two ship series with five Mk frames each; every module upgrade shows on the hull.
Planets you can land on, with cities, spaceports and air traffic.
Galaxy news that lies: the Dominion's bulletins and the rebels' whispers tell the same events differently.

Planned: real-time ship combat, wormholes that players open and defend, and quests that grow out of player discoveries.