Vertical bullet hell for Windows PC
Strip the wrecks. Bolt on their guns. Grow until the whole screen burns.
Incoming transmission
Sound on. The trailer only plays when you start it.
Combat systems
Every run starts with one Interceptor and a single Vulcan cannon. What you shoot down feeds your ship.
01Growth
Mass cores rip out of wrecks and your hull grows on the spot, in five classes, with more hardpoints, more shield and more guns at every step. Your hitbox stays a tiny glowing core. The more firepower you bolt on, the more enemies the game throws at you, never more bullets than you can read.
Five ship classes
02Arsenal
Upgrade chips level up your weakest module mid-stage. Levels 4 and 5 unlock extreme forms with their own behaviour: a wall of fire, a screen-high lance, chain lightning, a missile swarm. Homing weapons pick the nearest target, even incoming missiles.
03Defense
A regenerating shield bubble catches every hit first. When it drops, your modules take the punishment and break off one by one. Up to two drones orbit your ship with their own shield and a homing gun that grows with your class. And when it all goes wrong, you pick one of four bombs.
Four bombs
04Workshop
After every stage you land in the WORKSHOP: spend credits on new modules, level-ups, shield segments, repairs, bombs or the next hull class. Save your run there and come back later.
05Hangar
Permanent SALVAGE unlocks modules, three hulls, bombs, paint jobs and engine trails in the HANGAR. Then pause the carnage in photo mode: free camera, slow motion, HUD off, high-resolution captures.
Readability
Rust, soot, gunmetal and ground targets that shoot back, under a storm of explosions, debris and heat haze. Enemy bullets stay the brightest, cleanest thing on screen, so you can read the field even when everything is on fire. Metal and dubstep on the soundtrack, a distorted voice announcing every boss.
Campaign
Three stages per world, assembled from the run seed: new formations and terrain every run, the same bosses with different phase sets. Clear the last stage without losing a ship and the Singularity opens.
Boss Foreman
3 stages
Boss Excavator
3 stages
Boss Tempest
3 stages
Boss Bastion
3 stages
Boss Matriarch
3 stages
Boss Helios
3 stages
Boss Null
Stage 19 – only for a flawless last stage
Modes
All 18 stages back to back, plus the Singularity. Save between stages.
One random stage per world, about 30 minutes, never the same run twice.
Drill any stage you have reached, with a ship built to match.
Nothing but bosses, back to back.
No finish line. The threat keeps climbing.
A new run every day, the same for everyone. Your first attempt counts.
The final stage of every world again, threat at max, enemies spit bullets as they die.
Four difficulties from NOVICE to MANIAC. Every run is recorded tick by tick: watch and verify replays, chase the local leaderboards.
Co-op
Fly with a friend on one PC or over your network. Shared score and streak, separate shields, and when your partner goes down, you grab the revive.
Mods & editor
Content packs add stages, enemies, sprites and sounds. The standalone level editor lets you place formations, ground targets, midbosses and bosses on a timeline, check the bullet density and test-fly with one click.
Gallery
System
The first start builds the graphics caches once (about 17 s); later starts take about 3 s. Derived from measurements with build 0.7.2.
The free demo comes first. Wishlist now and you will know the moment it drops.