Press kit
IKAREE press kit
Facts, descriptions, screenshots, logo and trailer. Everything here may be used for coverage of IKAREE. For keys, interviews or questions write to lubomirbudin@gmail.com.
Fact sheet
- Game
- IKAREE: Captain on the Bridge
- Developer
- Lubomír Budin (ProBudin), Brno, Czech Republic
- Status
- Early Access, version 0.9.0, since 30 October 2026
- Platforms
- Meta Quest 3, Meta Quest 3S, PC VR (Windows)
- Store
- Meta Horizon Store (page opens soon)
- Genre
- Seated VR, space exploration, interactive story
- Players
- Single player
- Languages
- English voices and subtitles; Czech subtitles and voice commands
- Requires
- Internet connection, microphone
- Website
- ikaree.space
Short description
Command a starship with your voice. IKAREE is a seated VR game where you are the captain and an AI-driven bridge crew answers, argues and carries out your orders, among about 11,000 real stars.
Long description
IKAREE puts you in the centre chair of a deep-space explorer. There are no menus between you and the ship: you hold the communicator button and speak, and six officers with their own personalities answer in their own voices, push back when they disagree, give advice and make it happen. Set a course for Proxima Centauri b, launch a probe and ride its camera to the surface, call red alert or hail an alien ship through an imperfect translator.
The galaxy outside is the real Milky Way, built from the HYG star catalogue and the NASA Exoplanet Archive. Season 1 has six story episodes, each set at a real star and built around a hard choice with several endings, and the crew remembers what you decide. IKAREE is played seated, with no artificial locomotion, on Meta Quest 3, Quest 3S and PC VR.
Key features
- Voice command with natural speech, no keyword lists
- Six AI-driven officers with written personalities and relationships
- About 11,000 real stars and their confirmed exoplanets; 31 detailed destinations
- Six story episodes with several endings and crew memory
- Survey probes, tactical map, sensor views, red alert and combat
- Fully seated, comfortable VR with no teleporting
Coming next
- Live mode: walk the ship in your own room, turbolift to eight decks (in development)
- About 100 missions across the whole galaxy (planned)
- Player-written missions whose ships live on in the galaxy for other captains to meet (planned)
Trailer
Screenshots (2560 × 1440, in-game)
Credits
- All screenshots are captured in the game.
- Star positions: HYG Database v4.1 by David Nash / astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Exoplanet data: NASA Exoplanet Archive.
- Milky Way sky in the game: NASA Deep Star Maps.
- Planet textures: Solar System Scope (www.solarsystemscope.com), CC BY 4.0; NASA / JPL / USGS (public domain). Exoplanet surfaces are artist impressions made for IKAREE.
IKAREE is an original game with its own ship, crew and universe. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Paramount, CBS or the Star Trek franchise.