Distant Worlds is a pausable real-time, space grand strategy wargame developed by Code Force and published by Matrix Games.Distant Worlds was released on March 25, 2010. Three subsequent expansions, Return of the Shakturi, Legends, and Shadows were released in 2010, 2011, and 2013, respectively. The game appeared on the Steam platform on May 23, 2014 under the name Distant Worlds: Universe, gathering the original game and all expansions into a single package with new content.