Pax Autocratica is single-player only today, and co-op is officially planned during Early Access. Both halves of that sentence come from the developers' own Steam answers: this is a stated plan, not a guess. No release date for co-op has been announced.
Current mode: single-player
The Steam page lists the game as single-player, and that is the entire current experience: one player runs the colony and fights the expeditions. Every guide on this wiki describes that solo game. There is no local co-op, no PvP, and no shared-base mode in the current build.
The co-op plan
In the Steam Early Access answers, the developers name co-op as a major feature they intend to develop during Early Access. What is and is not known:
- Planned: co-op as a major Early Access development goal.
- Not announced: a release date, the player count, or how co-op will interact with the colony-to-combat loop.
Until those details appear on the Steam page, treat any specific co-op claim as speculation.
What solo play includes now
Single-player does not mean thin. The confirmed Early Access build contains the full loop: building and governing a colony (facilities, production, policies, citizen values of Fear, Happiness, Hunger, and Loyalty) plus first-person roguelite expeditions with your soldiers, prisoner capture and conversion, and the core system (weapon, combo, and soldier cores) that reshapes each run.
The developers describe the Early Access build as already containing multiple soldier types, weapons, buildings, and cores, with content growing through a roughly two-year Early Access window. The gameplay guide maps those systems; the beginner guide walks the first colony.
Status lives on one page
Multiplayer status is volatile by nature: plans and dates change. This wiki keeps the canonical wording on the release-date status page; when the plan changes, that page changes first and this guide follows.
Sources and verification
- Primary source: the official Steam store page. Single-player listing, Early Access developer answers (co-op plan, ~2-year window), and feature list.
- Verified Aug 17, 2026.