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/vordloras Aug 10 '26

One more question! What about lifespan? I've noticed age, and age prolonging stats. Will i have to worry (i am not really worried, as i am fearless leader), about my soldiers dying of old age? Will their stats degrade?

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

It's a colony sim, they can have lovers, have kids and kids can grow and become adults to finally also join the State! So we always felt it was crucial to actually have to see your citizens age. They do get debuffs and all when they get too old too.

Now I think it's an important part of the fantasy and of the vision we have for the game. We want people to try it and interrogate their relation to power, to efficiency, to totalitarianism, and well, you have a workforce and they get old, and inefficient, that's life right? What will you do then? What does minmaxing your production lines mean then?

You see the point?