Earth's magnetic field failed a long time ago. The solar wind has been peeling the atmosphere away ever since, and the water went with it, boiled off into space. What's left is a world of exposed seabeds, sand dunes, salt basins and mountain ranges that used to be a coastline.

You have a ship, and nowhere to be.

Description

Built on real Earth elevation and seabed data, Waterline takes the classic space sim and re-imagines it on a single world.

Features (Game is in active development, but here is what is already completed)

• Whole Earth map built from real-world elevation and ocean-floor survey data

• Land anywhere with finely-tuned physics that differ from ship to ship

• Day-to-night lighting cycles (night sky shows realistically positioned moon and stars)

• Full ship purchase and outfitting with buy-back - jump drives, weapons, shields, scanners, cargo

• Hire and fire named co-pilots

• Trading, hauling, salvage, escort work, bounty hunting and piracy

• Settlements with individual import/export economies

• NPC cargo runners flying real routes between real settlements - and pirates hunting them

• Emergent encounters: escort, intervene, take the bounty, or take the cargo

• Radio chatter (text only) with named pilots and distress calls you can choose to answer