Ominux Games is offering a  free Kickstarter demo for players who are interested in the dwarf fortress-inspired space-station simulation game, "Starmancer."

The free demo is available on the Kickstarter page of the game and is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac and Linux.  Ominux said that the free demo is only a creative build mode, which means there will be no colonists.

According to the Kickstarter page of the game, Ominux Games has reached and even surpassed its crowdfunding campaign goal of $40,000, gathering almost $68,000 as of the time this article was written. Ominux also posted their stretch goals that will fund the game until after its release — the first of which, gathering $60,000, they have already finished. The other stretch goals include gathering the following amounts — $90,000, $100,000 and $120,000.

In the game, a disaster on Earth urged the creation the Starmancer Initiative wherein players will take on a role of Starmancer — a human whose brain and body are fused in a machine — who is on the process of fleeing Earth. Since there is not enough time to load all of humanity in the Ark ships, their physical bodies were left on Earth while their consciousness was uploaded into the Starmancer's cores. Players will wake up in a strange solar system with a damaged Ark, corrupt memory cores, and no idea of the number of years that passed since they left Earth. From then on, it is up to players to decide how to construct and rule over colonies to rebuild another world to thrive in. The game features include Starmancers, colonists (that players have to provide for), building hangars, machines, houses and farms, an understanding of colonists morale, an experience of colonist life, an exploration of the randomly-generated solar system and combat with pirates.

The Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for "Starmancer" is scheduled to run until March 17 at 10 a.m. AWST. If all goes well, the dwarf fortress-inspired space-station simulation game is expected to release in the first quarter of 2019.