#seedship

[videogamepolls]

Have you played Seedship (2017)?

Yes

No

I watched someone play it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onMar 22, 2025

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[indiegameoftheday]

Indie Game of the Day

Seedship

When they knew the Earth was doomed, they built a ship. Play as the AI of a spaceship transporting the last surviving humans, looking for a new planet to settle on and rebuild their society. Not all planets are suitable for human habitation, but the longer you travel, the higher the risk becomes of losing colonists or sustaining damage. Do you settle for an imperfect planet, hoping for the best? Or do you keep looking, hoping the cost won't be too high?

Seedship is a short Twine game, a single playthrough taking a few minutes. It is free and playable in browser.

Play Seedship Here!

[seedshipchronicles]

Mission #20 Commentary

The theme for this mission was that the colonists were picked because they were peaceful. I think it's ironic that they ended up being a warring bunch of tribes. That was so unexpected.

I would not have picked the that planet but I was low on probes and the ship was getting dinged up something awful. For a second I thought no one was going to survive...so it went better than I expected.

Missions Post Link

[jan-liliten]

i made a thing! @online-seedship is a collaborative online project in which everyone has a vote on what to do in the game of seedship. every decision lasts 3 days before it is officially locked in.

in seedship, you are a sentient ai system on a ship traveling through interplanetary space with the last 1000 members of the human race onboard, along with several systems for judging how good a planet would be to settle, some scientific and cultural databases, systems for landing and building a home base, and 10 surface probes to inspect planets and repair anomalies outside of the ships with. you will use these resources to decide on a new home for humans, but be weary, there may be grand issues on these planets, or in space. you just may lose your help.

[teleportationmagic]

I need more people to play Seedship. So much. It's a F2P Mobile game with no ads, and the writing in it is so good. I love reading the descriptions so much and the prologue always swamps me with a feeling.

It's a text-based rouge-like game where you play as the titular seedship, after the devastation of humankind. You're the ai in a spaceship, called on to decide what planet the last 1000 humans left should make their home, trying to manage the different statuses to try to optimize the society your humans will build, all while trying not to get them all killed. There are a bunch of stuff that happens to you in between each planet, and it's interesting learning how the different systems weigh against each other. And I cannot say this enough, the writing is so lovely and evocative, and I'm constantly trawling for new lines and trying to build the perfect society for these folks.

[oh-no-eu-didnt]

Sh’rip Sh’pa, more commonly known as seedships, were a type of organic spacecraft used by the Yuuzhan Vong. Large in size, seedships were used to transport material and personnel throughout the galaxy, filling an equivalent role to a transport freighter. Sh’rip Sh’pa were used particularly for terraforming conquered worlds.

Source: The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Art: Ian Fullwood; 2003)

First Appearance: The New Jedi Order: Agents of Chaos I: Hero’s Trial (2000)

Read more on Wookieepedia.

[pretentiouslimericks]

Seedship deserves to be well-known but is hilariously un-fandomable

[exactlysecretdefendor]

The AI was created to value human life, but its knowledge of human civilisation is limited to what its builders thought was important for its mission. It is human enough to be curious, however, and has access to a vast wealth of knowledge in the form of the scientific and cultural databases. As it departs the system it finds that its power cells are full and it does not need to enter hibernation immediately, so it decides to spend some time studying one of the databases. The AI loses itself in a world of art, music, and literature, forgetting for a while that it is alone in deep space and the last of the creatures that made these artworks are frozen in its arms. As it absorbs more and more of the products of human imagination, it suddenly experiences something that its builders did not anticipate—inspiration. Falteringly at first, but with greater and greater eloquence, the AI composes poetry about its own experience—its love for its sleeping charges; its nostalgia for a dead world it was not made to experience; the beauty of the stars as seen not through a cloak of atmosphere but by a being built to roam among them. With infinite patience and time to work, it composes a great cycle of poems, in a style that draws from the greatest human poets but whose soul is fundamentally unhuman. At last it considers that it has said all it has to say, and contentedly enters hibernation, pleased with the thought that humans will one day read its work.

Seedship

Been playing Seedship (a free textgame) and I think this might be the most profound I’ve seen yet. Even if it will be counted as alien culture in the stats but what can you do.