Galaxican

Your stars make ships. Ships take stars. Everything else is your decision. Galaxican is real-time strategy stripped to its bones. No bases to build, no tech tree to memorise, no timers waiting on your attention. Drag a lasso around your swarm, send it, and watch a galaxy change hands. THE TWIST: MERGING MAKES MASS Five motes fuse into a squad worth more than five motes. Three squads fuse into a battleship worth more than three squads. Convert that battleship into a tower and it becomes a permanent gun emplacement — the best trade in the game. So every ship you own is a question. Throw it at the enemy now, or hold it, merge it, and hit twice as hard in twenty seconds? The AI knows this too. THE FAR STAR IS WORTH MORE Stars have a capacity, and the good ones sit in contested space. Grab the cheap neighbours and out-tempo your opponent, or push for the middle and out-produce them later. There is no correct answer, only a board and a clock. A FAIR FIGHT, DELIBERATELY Every map is rotationally symmetric and both sides start identical — same stars, same tiers, same distances. The AI plays named strategies: expansionists sprawl, raiders harass, consolidators mass a doom stack and walk it into your capital. When you lose, it was you. THIRTY BOARDS, NINETY CHALLENGES Each level is a recognisable shape — diamond, circle, cross, hourglass, figure-eight, spiral — from a nine-star opener to a twenty-six-star finale. Clear one at normal speed to unlock fast, clear it at fast to unlock extreme. At 3x there is no time to shepherd stragglers home, so the optimal line is a different line. Thirty levels are really ninety. WHAT THIS GAME WILL NEVER DO - No ads. Not banners, not rewarded video, not "watch this to continue". - No in-app purchases. You bought the game; you own all thirty levels. - No energy timers, no daily rewards, no notifications begging you back. - No accounts, no sign-in, no data collection of any kind. - No internet permission at all — it cannot phone home, by construction. Plays offline on a plane. Buy it once. That's the whole arrangement.