The game is set in the Velorian Republic, an interstellar civilization controlling several planets, space stations and other locations from its homeworld Velora. During the events of the games story the Republic will have suddenly fallen from within and the player will be fighting hostile forces in a civil war. The player takes the role of a pilot assigned to the Republic Battleship Alastrius, which upon returning from a deployment finds the Republic has been usurped and the Alastrius is the last ship still on the side of the Republic.

At launch there is a Training Simulator that allows the player to practice handling a Star-Fighter. There are then a further 17 campaign missions in the main game. This number will increase as post launch content is added.

The game uses a chase-cam view with the camera following behind the players Star-Fighter.

No, the game is a focused single player experience. Its on-the-rails gameplay would make same screen co-op extremely difficult to implement. Having a second player being able to shoot as well could be possible but this is not part of the games current planning. 

Alastrius is structured in campaigns where the player travels across several planets and space locations en-route to the Republics Capital World Velora where the final mission takes place. There are numerous different routes the player can take but as of launch each campaign consists of seven levels and takes around 45 minutes to complete. However in order to visit every location and unlock every ship the game will take around 3-4 hours to beat. For players going for total completion such as gold medals in every mission and all achievements unlocked somewhere in the region of 12 hours would be expected, this will get longer as more content is added throughout post launch.

Yes, both Keyboard & Mouse and Gamepad controls are fully supported for all gameplay and menu navigation.

Alastrius is the equivalant of a PEGI 12 age rating.

Alastrius takes place in an interstellar civil war with the player using a star-fighter to help overthrow a despotic government.  There is constant vehicles and structures being destroyed in large scale explosions.  There is narrated reports of both military and civilian casualties however no deaths are directly seen on screen.

Alastrius was released on Friday the 27th of March, 2026.

Yes.

Alastrius will be launched first on Valves Steam Platform. The game may be released on other platforms in the future.

The studio would love to get this game out on the Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox consoles but is focusing on the PC launch first.

The game should be viable on VR and this may well be a post launch aim.

At the moment the game is running at 60fps on the following hardware:

• i9-9900k CPU

• RTX4080 Graphics Card

• 64gb Ram

• 5gb Hard Drive Space

A key goal of the projects development is to boost performance, particularly down to the RTX3080 generation of cards if possible. Most updates since the games launch have contained improvements to performance allowing the game to gradually lower its benchmark.

Yes. Alastrius has a demo available on the games main Steam Page. This demo is actively maintained as new gameplay systems are added to the main game.

The Demo includes the following features:

• The Training Simulator

• The first campaign mission, which takes place on the planet Cendoria

• Two possible bosses at the end of the Cendoria Mission.

• Three playable Star-Fighters, each with different play-styles

• A fourth Star-Fighter that can be unlocked by performing well in the Training Simulator

• All settings and options

No. The game was launched as a full title.

Yes, the studio is extensively updating the game beyond launch with new missions, locations, ships, weapons, achievements and other content, all as free updates. 

The studio does not plan to introduce any paid DLCs or expansions to Alastrius due to the desire to avoid build fragmentation. Caledonia Interactive is a small studio and would prefer to manage a single well balanced game build rather than continually needing to test new content for a split userbase depending on DLC ownership.

Computer Games:

• Star Fox franchise

• Panzer Dragoon

• Sin and Punishment

• Rez

Films:

• Star Wars (elements involving Rogue Squadron in particular)

TV:

• Battlestar Galactica

Alastrius is being produced by Caledonia Interactive Ltd.  A small games studio based in Scotland.

The project started in August 2025 and by its March 2026 launch date was in development for approximately seven months. Since launch development has shifted into stability, performance, bug fixing, polish and new content.

Alastrius was built using the Unreal Engine.  It originally started with Unreal 5.6 and currently uses Unreal 5.7.

• Water is provided by Imaginary Blends Fluid Flux plug-in. 

• Atmospherics are provided by Ultra Dynamic Sky & Weather.

• 3D modelling work is being created using Autodesk Maya Indie.

• 2D textures and graphics are created using Adobe Animate and Adobe Photoshop.

• Voice recording has used Audacity.

• File Revision Control is provided by Perforce and server space is managed with Assembla.

• Trailers and in-game footage capture is being done with OBS, Handbrake and Adobe Premiere.

Alastrius has no generative AI at all in the game, this includes both the final product as well as during the games development. All artwork, music, voices, text and code were created by humans.

The project has used Googles AI Search Mode for problem solving purposes. No code was generated.