Burn Vector

Closed betaiPhone and Android

Move your body.Drive the galaxy.

Burn Vector is a persistent space game that your real activity powers. Steps raise Navigation power for travel and surveys. Workouts raise Fabrication power for building and research. Your flagship keeps working while the app is closed.

How it works

Activity

What you do today sets the pace.

Your phone already counts your steps and workouts. Burn Vector reads them and turns them into power: how fast your ships travel and how fast your facilities build. Power compares your activity with your own target, not with anyone else's.

  • 25%Nothing stops when you rest. At 0% power, jobs still run at a quarter speed.
  • 125%Good days pay off. Above 100% is Overdrive, up to 125%.
  • 0Activity is never a currency. It cannot be bought, sold or traded.
TodaySynced from your phone
8,412Steps
92%NavigationMovement
Travel & surveys
46 minWorkouts
104%FabricationWorkouts
Build & research
7 h 20 minSleep · mindful
+10%Recovery bonus
Repairs

Burn Vector reads steps, exercise minutes, workouts, last night's sleep and mindful minutes. Nothing else about your health is read.

Industry

Everything is built from ore.

Every material is in one place at a time. To use it somewhere else, a ship has to carry it there.

  1. Surface Extractor
    01 · Mine

    Mine ore

    A Surface Extractor works a deposit you have surveyed. Ore collects on site until a ship carries it away.

  2. Vacuum Refinery
    02 · Refine

    Refine material

    A Vacuum Refinery turns ore into material you can build with, such as Refined copper.

  3. Component Forge
    03 · Fabricate

    Fabricate parts

    A Component Forge makes parts from refined material. A Power Bus is one of them.

  4. Orbital Shipyard Kit
    04 · Build

    Build kits or frames

    Parts go into a kit or a hull frame. A kit is a stored item: it waits in storage until you place it.

  5. Orbital Shipyard
    05 · Commission

    Commission

    Commissioning turns a kit into a working facility, and a frame into a ship. An Orbital Shipyard builds your fleet.

Atlas

One shared galaxy. No wipes.

Ships, cargo, facilities and wrecks stay where they are, for you and for everyone else. Survey a world to learn what it holds, then decide what is worth the trip.

Sanctuary and Protected
Safe space. Home is Protected: nobody can raid you there.
Frontier
Combat is allowed. Frontier sites hold the best ground, and they can be raided.
HomeProtectedSurveyed
Inner moonProtectedSurveyed
GiantFrontierNot surveyed
Ice worldFrontierSurveyed

Flagship

Your flagship is permanent.

It cannot be destroyed or captured. Its Genesis Core makes your Antimatter and Nanites, and the ship changes as you play. You choose its lineage when you begin.

Aevarel

Strength
Fast and precise while healthy. It wastes almost nothing.
Tradeoff
Repairs require specific parts and facility time.

Five Echoes travel with it.

Navigator, Fabricator, Steward, Archivist and Warden. Each casket was made with this flagship and is bound to it forever.

  • Navigator
  • Fabricator
  • Steward
  • Archivist
  • Warden

Fleet · Network

The Frontier pays. It can also be raided.

Build ships to haul, survey and fight. New hulls are built at a shipyard, from a frame. Send them where the ground is richest and decide how much you are willing to risk.

Raid incomingLands in
1:42:10
  • A raid shows from launch, with its landing time counting down.
  • A breach carries off up to half of a site's stock.
  • Buildings are only disabled until repaired. Antimatter and Nanites are never taken.
Network
Trade
The relay exchange is open to every pilot. Sell goods there and buy what you cannot mine.
Alliances
Pilots who fund and build projects together. Find one to join, or found your own.
Events
Events lists what is happening now. The Chronicle records past events and their outcomes.

Artifacts are finite.Each one is a physical object in one place. Locate it, recover it and study it.

Bridge

Play in short sessions. The ship keeps working.

Walk, train and sleep as you normally do. Open the game afterward to see what finished, choose what to build or where to go next, and leave.

While you were away

Settled 3
  • Pioneer Works KitFabrication
    Built
  • Refined copperNavigation
    Delivered
  • Ice worldNavigation
    Surveyed

Closed beta

Join the beta.

Leave your email and tell us which phone you use. We will send your invite when the beta opens for it.

What do I need to play?
An iPhone with Apple Health, or an Android phone with Health Connect. The game reads your steps and workouts from there.
What does it read from my health data?
Steps, exercise minutes, workouts, last night's sleep and mindful minutes. Nothing else about your health is read.
Do I have to exercise while I play?
No. You play in short sessions afterward. Work continues while the app is closed, and at 0% power it still runs at a quarter speed.
Can I play in a browser?
Yes. Sign in here with the account from your phone. Your activity still comes from your phone, so keep the app installed.
Is it free?
Core gameplay is free.
When does the beta open?
We will email you when the TestFlight beta for iPhone or the Google Play beta for Android opens.