Per Regna is free to play, with optional purchases. This page lists exactly what those purchases are, and what money cannot buy. Combat power, resources and rank come from playing, in a single shared universe that is never reset.
Two levels of Access
Access is optional. Everyone plays the full game for free, with 3 build queue slots per colony, 3 research queue slots, 5 fleet templates and the battle simulator. Access adds tools for running a growing empire, in two levels.
Basic Access: advanced gameplay tools, earned by playing
Basic Access gives you the tools that matter most as your empire grows:
- Build and research queues of up to 15 slots, started one after another, and an Upgrade ×5 button.
- The Imperial Overview: one table for all your colonies’ fleets, buildings, defenses, resources and research.
- 20 fleet templates instead of 5.
- Auto-renewing trade offers.
You get Basic Access with Imperial Credits that you earn in play. 80 Credits buy 1 week and 300 Credits buy 1 month. No money needed. Credits come from several daily and weekly rewards:
- Daily quests: four of each day’s quests pay Credits, 1 or 2 each depending on difficulty.
- Daily completion bonus: 2 Credits when you clear the day (you may skip one quest).
- Streaks: 5 Credits for a 3-day streak and 10 more for a 7-day streak each week, plus a boost box and an artifact box.
Clear your dailies every day and you earn around 300 Credits a month: enough for a month of Basic Access. A monthly Basic Access subscription is offered too, for commanders who prefer not to spend Credits. Basic Access is also included in Imperial Access, which you can get with Quantum Shards.
Imperial Access: premium quality of life
Imperial Access includes everything in Basic Access, plus quality-of-life tools on top of the base game:
- Imperial Overview export (CSV, XLSX, XLS), Trade and Engines tabs, and filter and sort tools.
- One-click missions: spy, recycle, harvest asteroids and gas, send expeditions, and alliance system harvests and surveys.
- Automation and defaults: default launch colony, expedition depth and decision, one-click templates, resource templates and collect presets.
- Mail filters, list and map shortcuts, player notes on the map, and number-pad keys for millions, billions and trillions.
You get Imperial Access with Quantum Shards (30 Shards for 1 week, 110 for 1 month), or with the Imperial Access Pass, a subscription (monthly, 3 months or yearly). Each Pass period includes Imperial Access, a set of Quantum Shards, 15% off common, rare and epic cosmetics, and ad-free play when ads are offered.
These two levels apply to commanders who joined on or after 4 October 2026 and have never bought Imperial Access. Everyone else keeps the original single level, where Imperial Credits or Quantum Shards buy Imperial Access.
What else you can buy
Quantum Shards. The premium currency, sold in one-time packs in the App Store, Google Play and the browser. You spend Quantum Shards on Imperial Access time and cosmetics, nothing else.
Cosmetics. Avatars, planet images, planet and moon surfaces, building skins, and alliance badges, flags and system themes. Cosmetics change how your empire looks. They give no attack, production or research bonus.
What money cannot buy
- Combat power. Access and the Pass never change ship stats or research combat bonuses.
- Resources. The store sells no resources, and Access does not change production rates.
- Rank. Nothing you buy changes your score or leaderboard position.
- Ships, defenses, monuments or engines. These come from building, expeditions, forging and play. Engines are bought with resources only, never with Quantum Shards.
- Speed-up boosts. See below.
Nothing builds or researches faster because you paid.
Boosts are earned, not sold
Per Regna has speed-ups. Nano Boosts and Tech Boosts instantly complete hours of building, ship or defense production, or research. You get them only by playing: expeditions, pirate fights, quests, the daily login gift and Riftwake. They are not for sale in the store, for money or for Quantum Shards.
Cosmetics you can earn
Many looks are earned. Collect relic pieces in play and forge a relic to unlock its base look for free. Quantum Shards buy alternate skins, and a forged relic makes them cheaper. Alliances unlock shared looks by donating relics to the Alliance Archive.
Playing in the browser
Quantum Shard packs and the Imperial Access Pass bought at play.perregna.com give 20% more Quantum Shards than in the App Store or Google Play. The items themselves are the same.
Founders
Commanders who joined before 4 October 2026 are Founders and play ad-free for good; the Founders-only Lifetime Imperial Access window (4–21 October 2026) is closed and will not return.
Cancel anytime
Subscriptions can be canceled at any time in the App Store or Google Play, or under Manage subscription in the store for a Pass bought in the browser. Access lasts until the end of the paid period.