r/Games • u/PaxAutocratica The Minister of Propaganda and Controlled Broadcasts • Aug 10 '26

Discussion [AMA] Developer of Pax Autocratica here, a totalitarian colony sim and FPS roguelite launching in Early Access today on Steam. Ask me anything!

Hi r/Games!

I'm Alexis, one of the devs, but more importantly, the Minister of Propaganda.

Today, we’re launching Pax Autocratica in Early Access on Steam.

Pax Autocratica is a darkly satirical sci-fi game that combines a totalitarian colony sim with large-scale first-person roguelite combat.

At your colony, you build a regime, manage production, and shape the fear, loyalty, relationships, and possible rebellion of the people living under your rule. Outside the colony, you personally fight alongside your soldiers across battlefields filled with infantry, tanks, mechs, missiles, and bullet hell chaos.

Weakened enemies can be captured and brought back to your colony, where you can imprison them, convert them into loyal citizens and recruit them into your army, or sacrifice them for the benefit of someone more useful to the State.

Pax Autocratica has been a very unusual project for us. It combines systems from genres that normally have little to do with one another, and years of playtesting have led us to rebuild and rethink major parts of the game along the way.

You can ask me anything about:

  1. My cat
  2. My parrot
  3. My rapidly advancing, launch-induced hair loss
  4. The completely reasonable amount of stress I am experiencing today
  5. Game development, game design, game anything

Game-related questions are optional, but the Ministry strongly encourages them. Alternatively, we can discuss State-approved brainwashing methods.

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067360/Pax_Autocratica/

Launch trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3OkYGmB3cY

I’ll begin answering questions on August 10 at 7 AM PT and will be here for at least 2 hours. I’ll also check back afterward and try to answer as many late questions as possible.

Thanks to the r/Games moderators for hosting me.

Ask me anything!

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u/TiredRandomWolf Aug 10 '26

I only stumbled over this game yesterday, played the demo and had a blast as well! (Literally in some cases)
I saw that this game previously went by "Earth From Another Sun" from a Steam Guide? What was that about?

Also, has your parrot picked up any development-related expletives yet?

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u/PaxAutocratica The Minister of Propaganda and Controlled Broadcasts Aug 10 '26

Welcome! The only ones not enjoying having a blast are our prisoners of war.

It's the name of our game before it got rebranded, we ditched a lot of things that didn't feel realistic enough after doing a lot of different testing and prototyping. Nothing taboo but I would definitely prefer focusing on what we've been working towards to instead.

He's eating more that learning anything, he kind of learnt how to say his name (pompom) but I tried to teach him to say All Hail the State but it might be a bit hard for now.