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Vertical space shooter

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Space Raiders

Relight the beacons. Reach the Core.

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The Spiral is a young, bright galaxy, and its light is going out. You are the newest pilot in the Dawnline, the one wing the Hearthworlds could gather. Drag to fly. Your starship fires on its own. Everything else is up to you.

Fight through fourteen named sectors, from the violet clouds of Nebula Drift to the edge of the Event Horizon. Every fifth level ends at something enormous.

Genre
Vertical shoot-’em-up
Plays on
Phones, portrait, one thumb
Campaign
70 levels across 14 sectors
Hangar
12 starships, 10 drones
Languages
15
Ads
None

See it in action.

Gameplay trailerIn production. It will appear here when it’s ready.
Home screen with the Space Raiders logo, a violet ringed planet and the player starfighter in its launch ring Home base — your ship, your drones, one tap from launch Gameplay: the player ship at the bottom of the screen firing up at rows of small enemies as a boss segment explodes in a white flash among asteroids Mid-fight in the Rubble Belt Aegis Starfort boss: a red-and-steel fortress with solar wings inside a hexagonal shield, ringed by three turrets Aegis Starfort — break the shield turrets first Hive enemy roster lined up over the Archipelago backdrop: insectoid swarm — beetles, stingers, dragonflies and a brood mother The Hive — one of seven enemy factions Level select map: a winding path of numbered stages 28 to 33 crossing into Sector 7, Cloud Tops Fourteen sectors, seventy stages Terminus boss: a great clock-like ring with four shuttered nodes and a glowing pink hand Terminus — the finale at the Event Horizon Bloom enemy roster lined up over the Lumen Jungle backdrop: violet flower-and-jellyfish organisms The Bloom drifts in over the Lumen Jungle Stage 12 briefing panel with Easy, Hard and Impossible difficulty tabs, rewards and power-up slots Three difficulties per stage, three stars to earn All twelve playable starfighters in two rows: Dawnpike, Cinderlance, Glasswing, Emberveil, Frostcleaver, Stormray, Hexwarden, Lullmoth, Quillheron, Thistledown, Whirlscythe, Choirwing The fleet — twelve starfighters Pyrecrest boss: a blazing orange firebird with feathered wings Pyrecrest rises over the Magma Forge Machines enemy roster lined up over the Ion Storm backdrop: saucers, turret drones and walkers with orange sensor eyes The Machines hold the Ion Storm Hangar drones tab showing the Chattermite drone with its Missile Strike ability and a grid of drones Wing drones fight alongside you Gravemaw boss: a toothed purple ring opening onto a green vortex Gravemaw opens in the Cloud Tops Victory screen for Stage 12 on Impossible: three gold stars, a New best ribbon, score and coins earned, with confetti Three stars on Impossible

The story

Three years ago, the Core began to dim.

At the heart of the Spiral burns the Core, a knot of stars whose light reaches every world. Near the rim lie the Hearthworlds, colonies founded long ago by people who came on sleeper arks from a home they no longer remember.

Then the beacons that guide ships between the stars went dark one by one. Swarms poured out of the nebulae, ancient machines woke and opened fire, and the ships that flew toward the Core stopped coming back.

The Hearthworlds gathered their best pilots into one wing: the Dawnline. Your orders are simple. Relight the beacons, reach the Core, and find out what is putting out the light.

Welcome to the Dawnline, pilot. I’m Commander Vale, and you fly with my wing now.
Commander Ines Vale, Dawnline flight lead

How it plays

One thumb. A sky full of trouble.

  1. 01

    Drag to fly

    Your starship follows your thumb and fires on its own, so your attention stays on dodging.

  2. 02

    Fire your special

    Every starship carries one special on a cooldown, from Crescent Sweep to Sawblade Halo. Save it for the wave that needs it.

  3. 03

    Bring two drones

    Equip two of ten drones. Some chase, some shield, some scavenge.

  4. 04

    Earn three stars

    Each level has a star for Easy, Hard and Impossible. Bosses get harder, not just tougher.

Who you’ll meet

Seven factions, and none of them simple.

The things between you and the Core are frightened, hungry, loyal to old orders, or testing you. More than seventy kinds of enemy fly for them.

  • Hive enemy roster lined up over the Archipelago backdrop: insectoid swarm — beetles, stingers, dragonflies and a brood mother

    The Hive

    Insect swarms that share one loose mind across many bodies. The Hive is not evil. It is frightened and hungry.

  • Raiders enemy roster lined up over the Dune Canyon backdrop: pirate gunships and fighters with magenta lights

    The Clans

    Survivors of a broken ark, three hundred years in the Belt. They are people, not monsters.

  • Machines enemy roster lined up over the Ion Storm backdrop: saucers, turret drones and walkers with orange sensor eyes

    The Machines

    The Old Ones’ wardens, still following their last order: let nothing reach the Core.

  • Bloom enemy roster lined up over the Lumen Jungle backdrop: violet flower-and-jellyfish organisms

    The Bloom

    A living reef that grows on starlight, like a coral reef that bites.

  • Prism enemy roster lined up over the Ruined City backdrop: crystal obelisks, lenses and golden lantern shards

    The Prism

    The Old Ones, turned to living light. They are not your enemy. They are your examiners.

  • Rime enemy roster lined up over the Frost Shelf backdrop: spiked ice crystals and snowflake drones

    The Rime

    Thinking ice from the far side of the Rift.

  • Void enemy roster lined up over the Ringworks backdrop: ringed dark spheres and eye-like sentinels

    The Void

    Things from beyond the Rift, drifting in through the thinning seal.

Bosses

Something enormous is waiting at the end of every sector.

  • Irisgate boss: an armoured octagonal gate with iris plates opening over a teal core

    Irisgate

    An Old One vault-gate sealed around the Codex Shard.

  • Crucible boss: a grey industrial carrier with three hanging crucible pods

    Crucible

    An Old One smelter rig with three crucibles of molten fire.

  • Chainwright boss: a rust-brown bell-shaped furnace swinging two chained maces

    Chainwright

    The Chain Order’s temple, swinging burning censers.

  • Gloamlantern boss: a hanging lantern with a violet fan core, circled by small ghost flames

    Gloamlantern

    A Clan beacon gone wrong in the Dimming.

  • Rimefall Engine boss: a hexagonal ice engine with four crystal pylons

    Rimefall Engine

    An Old One weather satellite, frozen and turned to war.

  • Gravemaw boss: a toothed purple ring opening onto a green vortex

    Gravemaw

    A living gravity well in a gas giant’s storm eye.

  • Wraithbell boss: a cracked teal bell hanging in a spectral halo

    Wraithbell

    A spectral bell tolling over the Old Ones’ fallen fleet.

  • Pyrecrest boss: a blazing orange firebird with feathered wings

    Pyrecrest

    A solar firebird chained inside the Magma Forge.

  • Aegis Starfort boss: a red-and-steel fortress with solar wings inside a hexagonal shield, ringed by three turrets

    Aegis Starfort

    The star-fort that guards the Ring’s power, and so the seal.

  • Breaker Dreadnought boss: a wedge-shaped steel warship with three turrets and a drill prow

    Breaker Dreadnought

    The Old Ones’ last war engine, rising from the Ruined City.

  • Twin Dynamos boss: two tethered dynamo spheres with fanned antennae

    Twin Dynamos

    Two Old One generators that share one power core.

  • Terminus boss: a great clock-like ring with four shuttered nodes and a glowing pink hand

    Terminus

    The gate that holds the Rift shut. It is exhausted.

The hangar

Twelve starships. Twelve ways to fly.

Each ship has its own role and its own special, and each one came from somewhere. Rank them up from C all the way to SSS.

  • All-rounder

    Dawnpike

    Crescent Sweep

  • Glass cannon

    Cinderlance

    Overheat

  • Swarm

    Glasswing

    Shatterstorm

  • Beam

    Emberveil

    Solar Brand

  • Tank

    Frostcleaver

    Prism Bulwark

  • Chain lightning

    Stormray

    Skyweb

  • Seeker

    Hexwarden

    Coven

  • Control

    Lullmoth

    Stillwater

  • Sniper

    Quillheron

    Needle’s Eye

  • Mines

    Thistledown

    Bloom Field

  • Orbit

    Whirlscythe

    Sawblade Halo

  • Support

    Choirwing

    Chorus

Lullmoth was the escort of a hospital ship. It carries no heavy guns. It carries time.
From the Codex

The route to the Core

Fourteen sectors, seven regions.

Frontier

  • Nebula Drift
  • Archipelago

Belt

  • Rubble Belt
  • Dune Canyon

Cold Front

  • Ion Storm
  • Frost Shelf

Deep Wilds

  • Cloud Tops
  • Lumen Jungle

Fire Line

  • Wreck Line
  • Magma Forge

Old Ones

  • Ringworks
  • Ruined City

Core

  • Crystal Fields
  • Event Horizon

Ways to play

A campaign, a boss ladder, and a sky that never ends.

  • Campaign

    Seventy levels with three stars each, one for every difficulty.

  • Boss mode

    Fourteen boss fights back to back, with nothing in the way.

  • Endless

    Fly until you fall. Earn blue stars, spend them in the Endless Shop, and climb the leaderboard.

  • Daily Challenges

    Fresh goals every day, plus daily gifts, events and achievements.

  • The Codex

    Hundreds of entries on the ships, enemies, sectors and the story, filled in as you fly.

  • In the works

    Multiplayer

    Co-op missions, Mothership Escort and duels are being built alongside the game’s online service.

Fair by design

Built for players, including young ones.

  • No ads

    There are no ads in Space Raiders and no third-party tracking.

  • Parental controls

    Younger pilots get no open chat and no voice, and a parent approves purchases. The server enforces it, not the app.

  • Your progress, saved

    Start as a guest, then add an email to your Netcode account and your save follows you between devices.

Space Raiders

Relight the beacons. Reach the Core.

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