Beginner Guide
Learn the complete early-game loop: building your first colony, assigning citizens, managing production, preparing soldiers and surviving your first expeditions.
Build and control a totalitarian sci-fi colony, shape citizens through fear, propaganda or prosperity, then personally lead your soldiers into chaotic FPS roguelite battles. Master both sides of the game to keep the State alive and expanding.
Updated Aug 12, 2026
Follow the full loop from colony building and citizen management to laws, military preparation, FPS expeditions, and expansion.
Learn the complete early-game loop: building your first colony, assigning citizens, managing production, preparing soldiers and surviving your first expeditions.
Learn what to build first, how to automate production, which resources matter most and how to keep your expanding colony supplied.
Understand fear, loyalty, dissent, propaganda and laws so you can control your population without accidentally pushing the colony into rebellion.
Prepare weapons, soldiers and upgrades for expeditions, survive bullet-hell encounters and bring valuable resources and recruits back to your colony.
Pax Autocratica is a darkly satirical sci-fi colony simulator and FPS roguelite developed by Multiverse. You build a totalitarian settlement, automate production, manage citizens and dictate laws before leaving the colony to personally fight alongside your soldiers.
Updated Aug 12, 2026
The colony and combat systems feed directly into each other. Expeditions bring back resources, recruits and prisoners, while your colony produces the weapons, soldiers, food and equipment needed for increasingly dangerous battles across the Tyris System.
Learn what to build first, how to automate production, which resources matter most and how to keep your expanding colony supplied.
Understand fear, loyalty, dissent, propaganda and laws so you can control your population without accidentally pushing the colony into rebellion.
Shape citizens through fear, propaganda or prosperity.
Understand loyalty and dissent as you manage the colony’s citizens.
Dictate laws without accidentally pushing the colony into rebellion.
From your first production buildings and citizen assignments to laws, rebellions and large-scale FPS battles, our community guide helps you build a stronger State and survive every expedition.