Little Planets Stargazing

Little Planets is a cozy game about looking up. From a small home observatory, you search the night sky with a telescope, photograph what you find and collect every discovery as a card.

A real sky that never ends The sky above your observatory holds more than 13,000 real stars and over 6,000 confirmed exoplanets, each at the position astronomers have measured, along with the planets of our own Solar System. Stars with no known planets get imagined companions, and beyond the catalogues the sky keeps going: every step of magnification brings fainter systems into view, as deep as your telescope can reach.

A telescope you steer by hand There are no sliders. Turn the heavy azimuth and altitude wheels to sweep the sky, spin the optics ring to magnify a promising region, then use the fine knobs to centre and focus. Hold steady, and the photograph is yours.

Every photograph becomes a card Each card records the body's designation, its coordinates, the instrument that captured it and a short note on what you saw. Photograph a world again for another copy, and merge copies into cards of a higher level. Every card keeps its own history.

Fill the album Each system you photograph fills its own chapter, and an atlas of the constellations fills in star by star. Achievements, secret ones included, become cards too.

Build a better telescope At the optical bench, trade cards for components that reach farther, track the sky more steadily and read a target before you photograph it. Grow from an amateur telescope to a mirror array of your own. Cards are the only currency: no coins, no energy meter.

Research contracts The Meridian Consortium lends you instruments beyond your level for a limited time, in exchange for a specific discovery. Whatever you find with them stays in your album.

A sky that turns The sky rotates through a six-hour day, so different stars and planets rise and set while you're away. Come back for a few minutes, or stay all night.

Plays offline No account, no connection needed. Your progress is saved on your device, and you can export a backup at any time. No ads, no in-app purchases. In English and Italian.

Star data: HYG Database (CC BY-SA 4.0). Planet data: NASA Exoplanet Archive.