HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea

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HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea is a vibrant real‑time strategy and tower‑defense hybrid where you lead the Scynthian civilization in a desperate mission to survive. Your star is collapsing and your only hope is to land on the toxic moon Haya, gather rare resources, and build the Stellar Bridge before time runs out.

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Release date:
06 September 2017
Recent Steam reviews:
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All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (53)

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Description

HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea is a vibrant real‑time strategy and tower‑defense hybrid where you lead the Scynthian civilization in a desperate mission to survive. Your star is collapsing and your only hope is to land on the toxic moon Haya, gather rare resources, and build the Stellar Bridge before time runs out.

Explore, expand, defend, and outsmart the strange creatures that inhabit this hostile world. Every decision matters: where you land, what you research, how you build your defenses, and how you grow your population.

If you love classic RTS, tower defense, or base‑building with real strategic depth, this is your next obsession.


What Makes HYPERNOVA Unique

  • RTS + Tower Defense = RTDS
    A seamless hybrid where base‑building, resource management, and tactical tower placement all matter.

  • A Charming World With Real Challenge
    Cute creatures, colorful biomes, but don’t be fooled. Haya is dangerous, and your colony will be tested.

  • Freedom to Build Your Strategy
    Choose your landing zone, expand in any direction, and unlock tech in a non‑linear tree.

  • A Race Against Extinction
    Your star is dying. Your mission is urgent. Every resource and every tower counts.

  • Explore a vast open world filled with unique landscapes and hidden relics.

  • Gather and refine resources to power your growing colony.

  • Build settlements to keep your Scynthians alive in a toxic atmosphere.

  • Research dozens of technologies to unlock new buildings, defenses, and upgrades.

  • Construct a powerful tower‑defense network to repel waves of hostile creatures.

  • Assemble the Stellar Bridge, your civilization’s last hope for survival.

  • Replay with different strategies thanks to open‑ended progression and landing choices.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7/8/10
Processor:
Dual-Core Processor with 2.4 GHz
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia Geforce 460 GTX
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
2 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7/8/10
Processor:
Dual or Quad-Core Processor with 3 GHz or better
Memory:
6 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia Geforce 960 GTX
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
2 GB available space

User reviews

yoshirules
Recommended | 13 May 2018
4.1h played

HYPERNOVA: Escape from Hadea starts with a nice and funny intro. It combines a mixture between base building, resource management, tower defense and real-time strategy. You play as an alien race, you are escaping your

Helpful: 25
Thalaron
Not recommended | 15 Dec 2018
14.7h played

STOP TORTURING MY BRAIN WITH CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS I really want to like this game, but I can't recommend it. The main problem is that the game does not let you play. It keeps interrupting your fun with stupid crap

Helpful: 11
Qix
Recommended | 11 Sept 2019
6h played

I was convinced to buy Hypernova because it was described as a cross between Tower Defence (TD) and Real Time Strategy (RTS). As someone who prefers TD to RTS, my initial reaction was that it plays more like Starcraft

Helpful: 13
callcifer
Recommended | 25 Dec 2017
10.4h played

Definitely a unique take on the RTS genre mixed with tower defense. The characters, setting and voice acting are all very well done and funny. It's a single map/mission that gets progressively challenging with time. The

Helpful: 7
Lawro
Recommended | 01 Jan 2019
51.1h played

It's...an interesting game. Similar style and premise to The Mims, but instead of a slow-and-steady multi-mission campaign, HYPERNOVA gets it all over with in a single mission, which takes approximately 10 hours. It's a

Helpful: 5
elemerso
Not recommended | 31 May 2019
7.1h played

Too difficult and too simple at the same time. Not much to the game once you are about an hour in and figure out the strategy. Not much like a traditional real time strategy with any campaigns.

Helpful: 6