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Start Under the Banner
Receive your first opportunity as an Astro Express franchise operator with one ship, one crew, and a narrow path into the frontier economy.
Coming soon to Steam for Windows and macOS
Build a courier franchise among the stars.
Begin as a franchise operator within the Astro Express network. Build routes, expand your fleet, earn corporate investment, and grow into a trading organization capable of rivaling your former patrons.
Franchise Growth
From franchise operator to galactic trading network.
Astro Courier is about business growth: contracts, margins, routes, fleet capacity, infrastructure investment, and the corporate relationships that determine how far you can scale.
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Prove the Routes
Run contracts, move volume, build profitable lanes, and show Astro Express that your operation is worth backing.
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Invest in Infrastructure
Expand beyond point-to-point shipping with facilities, station support, and assets that make your network harder to replace.
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Outgrow the Network
Become a major regional partner, then decide whether to remain inside the Astro Express system or chart your own path beyond it.
The Astro Express Network
Your company does not start as an empire.
Astro Express is the largest freight and shipping organization in known space. You begin as one of its franchise operators, using its funding, contracts, and reputation to establish yourself in the frontier economy.
Astro Express connects frontier colonies, industrial worlds, mining operations, and trade hubs through a vast transportation network. Its backing gives new operators a chance to build a legitimate business without starting as a wealthy independent corporation.
Your job is to turn that opening into leverage. Expand from a single courier and crew into a regional logistics powerhouse through trade routes, fleet growth, infrastructure investments, and corporate partnerships.
Successful operators may become Astro Express's most important regional partners—or grow powerful enough to eclipse the company that gave them their start.
Core Systems
Trade, route, invest, expand.
Trade
Buy and sell commodities across a frontier economy shaped by supply, demand, station needs, distance, and access to reliable shipping.
Logistics
Manage fleets, routes, contracts, cargo flows, capacity limits, and the operational pressure of a growing franchise.
Investment
Use profits and corporate backing to expand your network, support stations, and turn temporary opportunities into durable advantages.
The Frontier Economy
Find the margins other operators miss.
Trade hubs, mining colonies, research facilities, and industrial stations create demand, scarcity, contract work, and investment opportunities. Every station is a potential customer, partner, bottleneck, or growth market.
Development Preview
Built around business decisions.
Gameplay interface screenshots are not final. These panels indicate the planned focus on route performance, fleet operations, contracts, margins, and management information.
Route Operations
LaneMarginStatus
Hub 17 -> Mining Ring+18%Active
Research Arc -> Trade Hub+11%Demand
Frontier Depot -> Core+24%Queued
Fleet Overview
Development Status
Astro Courier is in active development.
Steam page, release window, screenshots, and community links will be announced as development milestones are finalized.
PlatformWindows PC
PlatformmacOS
ReleaseComing Soon
Studiochil interactive
Studio
Developed and published by chil interactive.
Astro Courier is developed and published by chil interactive, an independent studio focused on strategy, simulation, and management games with meaningful progression and long-term systems.