The Kardashev Initiative
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DeveloperKonrad Kern
CategoryGames
Price5.99 EUR
Released
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Version1.0.4
Age rating9+
First seen by us
27 Sep 2026
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The Kardashev Initiative on the App Store
App details
App ID
6781195701
Publisher
Konrad Kern
On the store since
Jun 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
9+
1 content note below
Languages
5
EN DE JA PL ZH
Size
82 MB
Also listed in
Simulation, Strategy
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
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Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
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About The Kardashev Initiative
Every civilization is measured by the energy it commands. Yours begins with one world, one star, and a choice.
THE KARDASHEV INITIATIVE is a hard science-fiction civilization roguelite. Guide your species from its first orbital stations to the energy of an entire galaxy — or watch it join the silent majority that never made it.
A COMPLETE SAGA IN 15 MINUTES
Each run compresses a thousand years of history into one session. Technologies emerge, colonies spread, crises ignite — and every ending, triumph or extinction, writes a chronicle worth keeping.
DECISIONS, NOT MICROMANAGEMENT
You won't shuffle build queues. You'll face the decisions that define a civilization: fund the Dyson swarm or militarize its budget. Liberate the AGI or cage it. Terraform the living world or preserve it. Your choices set flags history remembers — and their consequences return generations later.
THE GREAT FILTER IS WAITING
The galaxy is old, vast, and silent. Every run hides a Filter tuned to your civilization's weakness: its machines, its biosphere, its armies, or its own cohesion. Reaching Kardashev III means surviving what silenced everyone else.
MANY ROADS TO VICTORY, MANY WAYS TO DIE
Declare completeness at Type II. Finish a megastructure Great Work. Merge with your machines. Or gamble everything on the climb to Type III — knowing most who try are remembered only as quiet ruins.
HARD SCIENCE FICTION, PLAYED STRAIGHT
Dyson swarms built from dismantled planets. Wormhole gates showing lensed starlight. Matrioshka brains, von Neumann replicators, the dark-forest answer to the Fermi paradox. No magic, no shields, no sound in vacuum.
• Runs of 10–25 minutes, always ending in victory or defeat
• 500+ event cards with visible tradeoffs — no fake choices
• Seeded galaxies: every run a different map, story, and Filter
• A generated literary chronicle of your civilization's rise and fall
• Fully playable in English and German
• Offline and private: no accounts, no data collection
The silence of the galaxy is a question.
Be the answer.
THE KARDASHEV INITIATIVE is a hard science-fiction civilization roguelite. Guide your species from its first orbital stations to the energy of an entire galaxy — or watch it join the silent majority that never made it.
A COMPLETE SAGA IN 15 MINUTES
Each run compresses a thousand years of history into one session. Technologies emerge, colonies spread, crises ignite — and every ending, triumph or extinction, writes a chronicle worth keeping.
DECISIONS, NOT MICROMANAGEMENT
You won't shuffle build queues. You'll face the decisions that define a civilization: fund the Dyson swarm or militarize its budget. Liberate the AGI or cage it. Terraform the living world or preserve it. Your choices set flags history remembers — and their consequences return generations later.
THE GREAT FILTER IS WAITING
The galaxy is old, vast, and silent. Every run hides a Filter tuned to your civilization's weakness: its machines, its biosphere, its armies, or its own cohesion. Reaching Kardashev III means surviving what silenced everyone else.
MANY ROADS TO VICTORY, MANY WAYS TO DIE
Declare completeness at Type II. Finish a megastructure Great Work. Merge with your machines. Or gamble everything on the climb to Type III — knowing most who try are remembered only as quiet ruins.
HARD SCIENCE FICTION, PLAYED STRAIGHT
Dyson swarms built from dismantled planets. Wormhole gates showing lensed starlight. Matrioshka brains, von Neumann replicators, the dark-forest answer to the Fermi paradox. No magic, no shields, no sound in vacuum.
• Runs of 10–25 minutes, always ending in victory or defeat
• 500+ event cards with visible tradeoffs — no fake choices
• Seeded galaxies: every run a different map, story, and Filter
• A generated literary chronicle of your civilization's rise and fall
• Fully playable in English and German
• Offline and private: no accounts, no data collection
The silence of the galaxy is a question.
Be the answer.
Latest updates
1.0.4
Now playable in Japanese — the entire game: the interface, all 518 event cards, and the narrative heart of every run (the closing Chronicle, the First Archivist's voice, the historical timeline). Choose your language in Settings.
