Artifex Labs

Starbreak

Hold the orbit.

Press Enter or tap Play

High scores

An Artifex Labs game · @ArtifexMemor · Buy me a coffee

An original homage to the vector arcade shooters of 1979. Privacy

Paused

Game over

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Settings

Master volume

Sound effects

Heartbeat pulse

CRT glow and scanlines

Screen shake

Reduced motion

Phosphor color

How to play

Clear every rock in the field to start the next wave. Large rocks split into two medium rocks, and medium rocks split into two small ones. Saucers show up to hunt you. The big one fires at random. The small one aims.

Action	Keyboard	Gamepad	Touch
Rotate	`←` `→` or `A` `D`	Stick or D-pad	◀ ▶
Thrust	`↑` or `W`	RT or B	Thrust
Fire	`Space`	A	Fire
Hyperspace	`Shift` or `↓`	Y	Hyper
Pause	`P` or `Esc`	Start	II

Hold fire to keep shooting. Four of your shots can be on screen at once. Hyperspace drops you somewhere random, and about one jump in six ends badly.

Large rock: 20
Medium rock: 50
Small rock: 100
Large saucer: 200
Small saucer: 1,000
Extra ship: every 10,000