What is Influence?
Influence is a space strategy MMO that immerses players in a hostile asteroid belt where survival and expansion are paramount. The setting is Adalia, where players are part of the Arvad, a generational ship fleeing a dying Earth tasked with building a new society from scratch. It stands apart from other space games through its emphasis on realism: 250,000 asteroids orbit according to real physics, transforming the game board dynamically, and movement between them requires food, fuel and actual trajectory planning rather than instant travel menus.
How to play Influence
You begin with nothing. Players extract raw materials, construct facilities, cultivate food and spread across the belt, engaging with more than 300 scientifically accurate production chains that transform roughly 250 resources into finished goods. Individual achievement is limited, so players form corporations and alliances — organized groups that share labor, divide production networks and defend territory as a unit. Conflict exists and operates at the organizational level, between groups rather than solo players.
What Influence demands of players
This is a long-term commitment, stated openly. One player's observation, featured on the game's own materials, describes it as possibly one of the deepest and long-term thinking oriented games ever. The satisfaction cycle is industrial, not immediate: a production network you establish in week one generates resources for the fleet you launch in week four. Ownership of in-game assets is verifiable and tradeable, which positions the economy as the game's core system rather than as an added feature.
