Beyond These Stars exists in an interesting new city-builder sub-genre. Over the past couple of years, a suite of games have tasked you not with building your settlement on solid ground, but on partnering up with some local megafauna, constructing your city on their back as they move around their world. Beyond These Stars takes that idea to the final frontier, positioning your civilization on the back of a sentient space whale as it navigates the galaxy.
That whale is Kewa, an entity so enormous that its head is encrusted with ice-covered peaks. That gives you plenty of space to build - from humble beginnings it's not long before you've got a sprawling city that still takes up only a small portion of Kewa's total surface area. But it's also not long until that causes its own problems.
