Planet Building Game Online

Your Empire Begins with One Planet

The first day in OGame is always the same: an empty planet, a handful of resources and a list of possible buildings. What you make of it determines the course of your galactic empire. OGame is a planet building game in its purest form — combined with multiplayer, conflict and galactic depth.

The building aspect is not an introductory tutorial that ends after a few hours. It is the permanent heart of OGame. Even experienced players are still busy years after starting to further develop their planets — improving mines, optimising energy production, efficiently setting up new colonies.

Buildings: What Emerges on Your Planet

Each planet has a limited number of fields — building slots for structures. Each building costs resources and time to build and takes up space. The field count makes planet management a strategic puzzle game.

Resource Buildings

• Metal Mine: Foundation of all resources. Each level increases hourly metal production.
• Crystal Mine: Essential for research and advanced ships.
• Deuterium Synthesiser: Produces fuel and research resource. Dependent on planet temperature.

Energy Buildings

• Solar Plant: Stable energy source, cheap, scales well in early phase.
• Fusion Reactor: Consumes deuterium, provides more energy per field than solar plants.
• Solar Satellite: No fields consumed — but destructible in combat.

Production and Research

• Robotics Factory: Reduces build times for buildings and ships.
• Nanite Factory: Drastically reduced build times — the most expensive and valuable construction building.
• Research Lab: Enables research. The higher the level, the faster the research times.
• Shipyard: Builds ships and defence systems.

Defence and Special Buildings

• Missile Silo: Enables interplanetary missiles (attack on defence) and anti-ballistic missiles (protection).
• Alliance Depot: Improves allied players' ships during support.
• Terraformer: Adds fields to planet — expensive but valuable for developed planets.
• Jump Gate: Instant fleet transport. Unlocks fleetsave in seconds.

The Moon: A Second Development Path

Besides planets, players can obtain a moon — a small celestial body in orbit. Moons are created through moon chance after major battles in orbit. Moons have their own exclusive buildings:

• Lunar Base: Foundation of all other moon buildings, provides fields
• Sensor Phalanx: Enables spying on enemy fleet movements from great distance
• Jump Gate: Instant transport to another moon jump gate — the strongest logistics mechanic

A moon with sensor phalanx and jump gate transforms a player from reactive to proactive: they see what enemies are planning and can position their fleet in seconds.

Planet Size and Colony Choice: Building Game from the Start

Even choosing colony locations is a building game decision. Planet size (fields) depends on position in the solar system:

Depending on strategy, players consciously choose their positions: miners prefer middle positions with many fields, deuterium specialists go to the edges, fleeters choose strategically close to enemies.

Collector Class: The Born Builder

Who wants to experience OGame primarily as a building game chooses the Collector class. Its bonuses make development more efficient:

• Resource production bonus on all mines
• Additional crawler slot — crawlers are planetary units with resource bonus
• Energy bonus and reduced energy consumption for mines

Collector players grow faster, build more solidly and have more resources for research and fleet construction. The price: fewer combat bonuses than the General.