Discover
Survey uncertain asteroid deposits and sell information, or keep the best coordinates for your own crew.
A persistent solar-system MMO
Space becamea workplace.
Start with nothing in the asteroid belt. Take contracts. Rent a ship. Build a company. Move the resources that keep humanity alive. Decide what you are willing to risk to own your future.
OneShared solar system
PersistentEconomy & consequences
Third-personWork, trade & conflict
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LIVE DEVELOPMENT
Every weekday
8:30 AM TO 12:00 PM ETSee how we’re building it01 / THE UNIVERSE
You are not the chosen one.
You need to make rent.
The near future has moved human work into space. Earth remains powerful. The Moon is industrialized. The Belt is the frontier, rich in resources and short on certainty.
You arrive without a heroic destiny or a private fleet. Work a cargo deck, join a survey crew, repair machinery, extract water-bearing ice or sign on to someone else’s ship. Every opportunity begins with another person or company needing something real.
02 / A LIVING ECONOMY
Nothing appears
from nowhere.
Every resource has an origin, a destination, an owner and a reason to exist. The economy does not wait for you. It does not reset when you leave.
Extract
Turn equipment, labour and risk into physical resource batches with measurable quality and ownership.
Move
Cargo must travel through real space aboard ships that need crews, fuel, maintenance and protection.
Transform
Processors and manufacturers consume inputs to create the water, parts and equipment the system needs.
Compete
Prices react to scarcity, distance, damage, theft and demand. Reliable player companies displace NPC suppliers.
Alive from day one.
NPC companies keep supply chains moving when the universe is quiet. As players prove they can fill those roles, the NPCs step back and let the market become yours.
03 / CRIME LEAVES A HISTORY
No wanted stars.
No clean slate.
Weapons can protect a shipment or take it. But crime is not an arcade meter. Deaths create cases. Cameras, witnesses, access logs, stolen cargo and forensic evidence allow NPC investigators to reconstruct what happened.
If the evidence identifies you, warrants and bounties are permanent. Public stations become dangerous. Property can be seized. Other players can legally hunt you. A criminal career is possible, but the universe remembers.
04 / BUILT IN PUBLIC
AAA ambition.
Built where you can see it.
We are opening the doors on the entire journey, not just showing polished trailers after the difficult decisions are over.
Every weekday, you can watch The Belt take shape: systems design, Unity development, world building, asset creation, mistakes, fixes and breakthroughs. The point is not to pretend one person can replace every specialist. It is to test whether modern tools, reusable production and disciplined design can return ambitious game-making to individuals.
For years, “AAA” has meant enormous budgets, giant teams and decisions made far away from players.
We want to prove that scale no longer belongs only to the biggest publishers.
Supporting The Belt is not only buying a game. It is backing an open experiment in what independent creators can now build. It also helps push ambitious games back toward the people who play them.
05 / JOIN THE FIRST CREW
Help us build the frontier.
Choose how close you want to be to the journey. Every package directly supports development of The Belt.
Back the mission
Basic
$29.99 USD
Own the game and put your name behind a different way to make ambitious worlds.
- ✓The Belt at launch
- ✓Founding supporter profile badge
- ✓Access to development updates
- ✓Name on the digital supporter wall
RECOMMENDED
Most popular
Special
$49.99 USD
Get closer to development and help us pressure-test the systems that make the universe live.
- ✓Everything in Basic
- ✓Early testing-wave access
- ✓Exclusive Belt worker suit palette
- ✓Digital concept-art collection
Founder edition
High-end
$99.00 USD
For the people who want to leave a permanent mark on the project from its earliest days.
- ✓Everything in Special
- ✓Priority alpha-wave access
- ✓Exclusive founder utility-ship livery
- ✓Founder credit in the game
Secure payment is processed by Stripe. Prices are in USD. Package details may evolve during development, but the value of your core entitlement will not be reduced.
QUESTIONS FROM THE DOCK
What you should know.
What kind of game is The Belt?
A third-person MMO in one shared near-future solar system. Players work, trade, fly, fight, build companies and compete inside a persistent resource economy.
Can I play if few people are online?
Yes. NPC workers and companies fill essential roles so the universe functions from day one, then reduce their presence as players take over those markets.
Is piracy a supported play style?
Yes, but crimes create persistent evidence and consequences. Successful piracy requires preparation, concealment and accepting that lawful infrastructure may become inaccessible.
When can I watch development?
Every weekday from 8:30 AM to noon Eastern Time. Stream announcements will be shared with registered supporters.
06 / ABOUT WASABE
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE EXPERIMENT
We are not teaching theory.
We are building the proof.
Wasabe is the AI-native game studio behind The Belt. We are building the game openly to demonstrate how experienced developers can use AI, disciplined production systems and reusable pipelines to pursue work that once demanded a much larger team.
Our team brings more than 15 years of game-development experience, including work with Microsoft, Bethesda on Fallout titles, Sony games, and Nickelodeon games including SpongeBob titles.
Start your own AI game studio01 / COMMUNITYPrivate Discord access$599.99 USD / yearJoin the private community with full support for your AI game-development journey.02 / STUDIO LAUNCHStart Your Own AI Game Studio$2,999 USDOne-on-one guidance backed by professional team support.03 / FOR EXISTING STUDIOSAI work for hireCustom engagementBring Wasabe into your pipeline to help your team produce more with AI.
Company and title names describe prior professional experience. No endorsement or present affiliation is implied.