Forge stellar matter
Tap to pulse gravity into the core; works fuse hydrogen into helium, carbon and heavier elements. Every layer pushes the core toward a new threshold.
First title from Inkless Labs
NovaForge
forge a star · choose its fate
Forge a star from a speck of dust. Feed it with gravity, fuse hydrogen all the way to iron, go supernova, and spend the starlight on an ever-growing sky. Then enter the Weekly Forge: four minutes, a bare star, and the same two laws every player on Earth burns under that week.
IdleProgress while away
RankedA new forge every week
MobileiOS & Android soon
The Loop
Build pressure. Break stars.
Every upgrade reads like a story: matter becomes fusion, fusion becomes light, and light buys the sky.
Go supernova
Iron destabilises the star. Let it die beautifully — harvest starlight and remnants, then spend it all on the next life.
Choose its fate
Spend starlight on the Constellations: a hand-drawn sky of upgrades where keystones are fates, and only a few sagas may ever be completed.
The Weekly Forge
Every player on Earth. The same two laws. One week.
Every Monday a seeded draw picks two laws — and every player who forges that week forges under exactly those two. Four minutes, a bare star, every power you own. Three ranked attempts; your best run stands and a worse one never lowers it.
240sseconds a run
3ranked attempts a week
2laws, shared by everyone
10divisions of real players
This week's laws — drawn from a pool of eleven, identical for everyone
Gold Vein
Stellar works cost 25% less — but they do for everyone.
Tempest
Time runs double and the core holds half the iron. Forge fast, break early.
Everyone starts at the bottom
Ten divisions · promotion and relegation
- EmberIII
- RadiantIII
- StellarIII
- NovaIII
- SingularityIII
Your place moves on results alone: the top 12% of a board climb each week and the bottom 12% fall. Nothing reads lifetime starlight — a score that measures a four-minute sprint should not be banded by how long you have played. You can also look into any other division's board, any week.
Rewards are cosmetic, always. A Forgemaster theme, a champion title, and a crowned star in your Star Cloud — never power. Your position can't be bought and doesn't make you stronger.
To be clear: the Weekly Forge is asynchronous. You do not play against anyone directly here — you post a score and you see real people's scores. The week closes Monday 00:05 UTC. If you want a live opponent, that is the Arena.
The Arena
A live rival. The same start. Four minutes.
Ranked duels. Both stars begin bare, both are dealt the same six cards, and the clock runs for the two of you together. The only thing that wins is what you do with those four minutes.
An equal start, genuinely
A duel leaves every permanent layer your account carries at the door: singularities, edicts, scholars, Gaia — all of it. Automation is sealed, chance is switched off, and the bought production surge does not cross the threshold. Having played longer earns you not one number here.
Matchmaking bands on MMR, not on power. Your rung appears after five placement matches and then moves at most one step per match — so a promotion is an earned moment and a demotion is never a surprise.
Mote
Glimmer
Corona
Pyre
Aurora
Empyrean
The Firmament
Seasons and cinders
A season runs eight weeks and closes with a soft reset — your rating halves and the top hundred are frozen. Then everyone climbs again.
Matches pay cinders, and cinders are spent only in the Arena Tree: signatures, a wider hand, seals and crests. None of it touches your star — nothing you win in the Arena becomes a number anywhere else.
- 240sThe same four minutes as the Weekly Forge.
- 6 cardsOne deal, the same for both of you.
- 5Placement matches, before your rung appears.
- 19Rungs, from Mote I to The Firmament.
The queue is never empty. If no live rival turns up within twenty-five seconds you race a recorded run instead — one that was genuinely played in a real ranked duel — and we tell you so. Such a match pays 60% of the rating and 50% of the cinders: enough that queueing at a quiet hour is never punished, little enough that farming ghosts at 4am is never the best plan.
Want to play a friend instead? A room-code friendly is always open — unranked, and nobody else's business.
Trials & the Gauntlet
Bound runs that forge new powers.
Your star is stripped bare, a cruel law is imposed, and you are asked to hit a goal. Alone, at your own pace.
Six trials, two chapters
The Dim Star cuts production to a tenth. The Locked Forge seals an entire branch. The Racing Star gives you 150 seconds. The Manual Star takes every engine, every automation, every scholar away.
A first clear never hands you a multiplier — it hands you a new mechanic: Overdrive, the Forgekey, Time Fracture, and the Artisan theme that is earned here and sold nowhere. Replayable forever for a better medal.
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Trials rank out of 18
The Endless Gauntlet
Each round is 120 seconds, the laws stack with depth, and the reward is the depth itself. The goal grows ×1.42 a round — but past Round 6 that factor itself starts growing, so however fast your star compounds the ladder eventually outruns it. Not endless; it ends wherever you do.
- Round 3The Void Siphon falls silent.
- Round 4The core holds half the iron.
- Round 5All automation shuts down.
- Round 7The comets and the events stop.
Challenger
Initiate
Adept
Master
Sovereign
Beyond the star
Nine realms, one universe.
Unfolding over days, not minutes. Each realm begins where the last one ended, and every one of them is single-player — this universe is yours. Competition waits in the Weekly Forge and the Arena, whenever you open that door.
ConstellationsShape this star's path and fate.
GaiaThe living world beneath the star.
MindsScholars, disciplines and doctrines.
LoomWeave stars under stranger laws.
GalaxyRaise companion stars in orbit.
The Star CloudEvery star you ever forged — kept, growing, forever.
TrialsBound runs that forge new powers.
ChronicleDeeds and everything that burned.
CycleAether, the Continuum and the Strata.
Screens
Built for the phone.
Dark panels, gold light and slow-turning orbits — a calm cosmos played one-handed, with one thumb.
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By design
Made to be cozy.
Play five minutes or five hours. The game waits for you, and it remembers everything you did.
No forced adsNot one ad ever stands between you and your progress. Watch one only if you choose to, for the reward.
No energy barsNo timers to wait out, no lives, no door telling you to come back tomorrow.
Offline progressThe star burns while you sleep. What it made is waiting when you come back.
Power is never soldThe store sells cosmetics and supporter packs. The ladder pays out in cosmetics alone.
The Journey
One star, then the cosmos.
Begin with a single spark and watch it grow into constellations, living worlds, and forces that reshape your whole universe.
Free web demo
Turn a speck of dust into a star, go supernova and open the Constellations — in your browser, no download, no sign-up.
A new forge every Monday
The Weekly Forge ladder is running: real players, real scores, ten divisions and two laws redrawn every week.
The full cosmos on mobile
Nine realms, the Trials, the Gauntlet, the weekly ladder and the Arena's ranked duels — the complete journey arrives on iOS and Android.
Coming Soon
Forge your first star
NovaForge is coming to iOS and Android. Leave your email and we'll write only about the launch and the beta — nothing else.