ΔV: Rings of Saturn
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You are a captain of an independent asteroid excavation ship, operating in the mineral-rich rings of Saturn - the thickest debris field in our solar system. Your task is to navigate rings, excavate minerals, and sell the ore at the Enceladus station.
You can hire and manage your crew who will aid you, update your ship - or switch to a completely new one. You can acquire a bounty hunter licence, explore mysteries or smuggle weapons - but at the core, you are a rock-hopper and rock-hopping is what you’ll spend most of your time at. And since it is the core of this game, we made sure you’ll have a great time flying your ship and excavating.
You are no chosen one, the story does not revolve around you - it is driven by the characters you hire and encounter, and each playthrough will play out differently. You can choose to investigate and embrace their lives, or just ignore them. It’s all up to you.
Tired of having more Fiction than Science? Here you will find lasers are not visible without a medium, sound does not move through the void of the empty space and every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Thrusters eject gas that heats up and pushes away objects, your reactor is cooled by propellant flowing through it and radiators glow when you pump heat into them.
There are no energy shields, teleporters and Heisenberg compensators. No lightspeed, no blasters, and no artificial gravity. Instead, we have fission reactors, thermal rockets, ion thrusters and centrifugal gravity. You'll have hard decisions to make, with no "best" equipment to answer every need.
All technologies are real and there is no technobabble. But it’s still a game and one that is fun to play.
ΔV is in active development, with new stable updates coming out each week, and experimental ones getting pushed out daily. Some players call this Proper Early Access, others call it the Golden Age - but in the end, it just means you have a polished game you can play and you can see it grow as you do.
Many ideas you’ll find in the game come from players and it is not uncommon to suggest something on our discord - and see it in the game next week. Our player community consists of enthusiasts geeks, engineering nerds and science-fiction nerds, and if that sounds like your kind of crowd - come to our discord, chat with us, and see how the game unfolds in real-time.
The event-driven nature of our storytelling means that we can expand our stories and enrich your experience seamlessly - while you are still playing. There is no need to start a new save, new events, equipment and features will just appear as you go.
Sounds like your kind of game? Check the demo. It’s free, and your saves will carry over.
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Announcements
0.609.2 - Icebreaker
Mineral processing units capable of processing massive asteroids will now apply damage based on the exposed area of the rock they process. This considerably speeds up the processing speed of Rusatom
0.594.2 - Secret Services
New regulations for Salvage ManipulatorsAfter a tragic accident in the Docking Ring earlier this week, Enceladus Corp issued an updated policy governing independent salvage equipment. Starting today,
0.596.5 - Cloaking Devices
Cloaking Devices DebunkedReports of cloaking device being used by entities operating within rings were debunked earlier today, as an independent investigation held by miners guild concluded. After ca
0.606.8 - Black Holes
The astrogation transfers within rings between specific locations used to cause a big hole to be burned on the departure spot. It was dependent on both the starting location and your destination. Fi
0.596.7 - Verified Claims
If you deploy a B8 claim beacon on the rim (below 10km depth), it will still automatically contact you. Fixed a bug that caused the claim location not to be updated if you cancelled your claim and m
Shadows of Anthropogenesis
ΔV: Anthropogenesis cosmetic DLC now includes brand new dynamic shading options for your crew's anthropomorphic faces. Light will now follow the curves on their fur and hair, naturally highlighting a
0.608.5 - Velocity Squared
Improved performance of the Dealer and Fleet screens on Enceladus station. Increased accuracy of kinetic impact damage tracking for ships (both yours and NPC). Fixed unresolved physics for Runasimi
0.595.2 - Terminal Resolution
Improved performance of the background ring particles. Fixed scrolling the UI elements with gamepads with more than one physical control mapped to the same action, such as Steam Deck. Some particle
0.608.1 - Ignition Sequence
The Z-Axial Pinch fusion torch now has an ignition cooldown. It can only draw enough power to attempt an ignition sequence five times per second. While this makes a worn-out drive behave more errati
The Retrograde Perspective
2022 in summaryLast year, we had 86 stable releases and 782 experimental ones. I fixed 458 bugs, added 131 new features and polished up 272 aspects of the game. The most voted-for feature in 2022 was
0.604.0 - Hot Rods
Improved performance of the tactical LIDAR markers. Improved performance of the Tuning menu. Fixed a race condition in the Tuning menu which could crash your game if you moved between the tuning men
0.607.3 - Rolling Rocks
Enhanced astrogation: I reworked both the visual effects/camera movement of astrogation and the ice generation during cutscenes. The result is a visible departure/arrival during the astrogation cuts
0.606.1 - Body Kits
New tuning option: toggle audio feedback for LIDAR contacts. New tuning option: Customize NDCI collision warning. New tuning option: toggle autopilot assist for variable geometry crafts. Disengaging
0.594.3 - Footgun
Pulsed thrusters could align their pulse frequency with your physics framerate in a way that caused them never to perform a burn, despite consuming propellant. You could hit your ship with your own
0.602.5 - Space Construction
OCP-209 available on the second-hand marketObonto Microengineering has announced that it is decommissioning a number of its Obonto Construction Platform 209 crafts, and they are now available on the
0.596.6 - Three Diamonds
Adjusted MA-337 autopilot overlay to work well with new, increased range of LIDARs.
0.599.2 - Daredevils
Additional soundtrack. New visual feed shader makes the torch flashes much gentler and easier to spot. The AR1500 Salvage Manipulator can now be damaged (and repaired). German translation is now at
ΔV: Deep Weeb
Channel your inner Otaku with ΔV: Deep Weeb - a cosmetic DLC that turns your entire crew into anime characters, adding a new level of personality to your ring-mining experience!https://store.steampow
0.603.6 - Tactical Retreat
Tapping "disengage autopilot lock" (G by default) when no target is selected will disable your autopilot. Tapping "engage the target in front" (F by default) will engage the autopilot immediately, e
ΔV: Deep Weeb Is Available Now
ΔV: Deep Weeb is the long-awaited cosmetic DLC for ΔV: Rings of Saturn that adds a whole new level of personality to your gameplay experience. This DLC transforms all crew portraits into anime charac
