Star Vortex

Humanity is fighting wars on all fronts only to be ambushed by a new enemy.  As a combat pilot, you must protect the mothership and escort it back to Earth to warn them of this new threat. Upgrade your ship, salvage ancient technology, and turn the enemy's weapons against them.

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About

Star Vortex is a hobby project I've been working on in my free time for years, trying to combine my love of single-player space shooters with classic ARPG item systems and skill trees.

I'm a solo-developer and almost all of the project is made by myself. You can build your ship from scratch using pre-defined parts, collect items, and come up with unique builds and synergies.

The demo is available below and we're looking to enter Early Access in Q2 2025.

Once near completion, I'm hoping to sell the game for a small one-time cost (on PC only to begin with). I'll continue to update it and hopefully release it cross-platform.

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Current Features

• A versatile ship designer allows you to get creative and construct your perfect ship from a vast array of parts, choosing colours and slot placements as you wish.
  
• Constant progression grants the unlocking of bigger ships and more powerful gear and more weapon and equipment slots as you level up your pilot.
• 3 large upgrade trees where players can create the perfect build to suit their play style.
• A deep and complex item system, with many possible builds and synergies to discover.
• A huge array of weapons to use against your foes such as lasers, homing missiles, energy pulses, time dilation, drones, cloaking fields, grapple guns, tesla coils and much more.
• Procedurally generated sectors to explore, which make every game vastly different from the last.
• Various difficulty settings to suit all skill levels and a Hardcore Mode for those looking for the ultimate challenge.
• Play how you want to play with a huge array of settings. Controls are fully customizable allowing keyboard only, keyboard and mouse, controller, or steam deck.

Work In Progress

• Equipment upgrades to make sure you get the modifiers you want.
• Shared item storage across saves.
• More sectors, enemies, and items...