Principia is an adventure game focused on advanced mechanics and electronics. Explore generated worlds or just play around with the physics, building your own contraptions in the sandbox.

Download beta 1.5 now!

Adventure Features

  • Build as you play, move objects around, nail pieces together, connect electronics. Need a hovercraft? Just build it.
  • Explore generated worlds and find rare items
  • Modular robots with replaceable parts
  • Fun tools to dig caves, cut down trees, gather resources
  • Cool weapons!

Sandbox Features

  • Create levels from scratch or base them off of a generated world
  • Advanced virtual electronics system
  • Highly tunable physics to fit your specific needs perfectly
  • Over 200 unique objects
  • Over 50 adventure items (some of them locked until you've discovered them in adventure)
  • Scripting and modding support

Community Features

  • Active community with interesting people from around the world
  • Weekly building contests
  • Fun and interesting community creations uploaded daily, from giant mechanical robots to mini games, time lapses, heavy machinery, music, adventures and much more
  • Download other peoples' creations to learn from them or improve them
  • Get a golden crown next to your name by winning a contest!

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Principia goes open source

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After several years of silence, Principia has finally been released as open source. With this comes new development and a Linux version.

The source code is available on GitHub and is free for anyone to modify and submit pull requests to. Check out the 1.5.2 roadmap for the current progress on the first open source version that is being developed.

In addition a new community site, principia-web, is available. Originally an unofficial community replacement hosted by ROllerozxa for the past two years, it has now become the primary community site for the open source Principia. The game is also able to connect to other community servers however, such as the Official Community Site Archive which is a complete archive of the old community site's levels.

For more info, see the news post on principia-web. Be sure to also join the Principia Discord server to stay up to date with the latest developments.

Principia has been greenlit, and here's more melee weapons

Principia has been greenlit, and here's more melee weapons

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After just over two weeks on Steam Greenlight, Principia has been greenlit and will be available on Steam in the near future.

Principia on Indiegogo

Principia on Indiegogo

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We're raising funds to continue development of Principia, help us spread the word about our Indiegogo campaign.

Melee weapons - 1.5.1 teaser

Melee weapons - 1.5.1 teaser

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We've added a melee weapons system for 1.5.1, check it out!

Principia free to play until Friday!

Principia free to play until Friday!

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We decided to let everyone enjoy the full version for free until Friday, just register an account on principiagame.com and download the game to try it...

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richtofen115 - - 82 comments

Anybody know where I can download this game again? I owned it but the website is down now.

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its very fun
BTW, im RasmusOlle in principia ;)

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Joshu145
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Looks pretty interesting. Keeping my eye on this.

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yeah I'll buy into this one.

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Great job by @R0llerozxa, who is now project maintainer, bringing Principia closer to its first open source release… T.co

Jan 1 2023

Principia running on Raspberry Pi! #principia T.co

Aug 10 2022

Android arm64 and x86_64 support is on git now, along with a bunch of other Android fixes. Release coming in short!

Aug 10 2022

The old community website, with all the uploaded creations, has been restored as a read-only archive. Get the lates… T.co

Aug 9 2022

Principia package for Arch Linux, thanks to @R0llerozxa! Aur.archlinux.org

Aug 9 2022

We're bringing back the THOUSANDS of user uploaded creations too, they're all restored! #principia #gamedevT.co

Aug 8 2022

Principia is a community project and the community decides how the project evolves. If you are serious about joinin… T.co

Aug 8 2022