01Movement
Aim & auto-fire
WASD steers, the rig fires where your cursor points. Momentum is survival — plant your feet and the void takes them.
Vertical Slice · v0.5.1
VOIDFORGED
Forge your build.
Breach the Void.
Extract — or die.
A loot-driven extraction bullet-heaven set aboard a derelict megastructure overrun by a corrupted machine intelligence.
Single-player
Top-down swarm combat
Windows · Linux 64-bit
Auto-updating launcher
[ 01 ] Manifest
What’s in this slice
Eight systems · one run loop
02Pressure
The swarm adapts
Chasers and brutes first. Then spitters that hold range, bombers that detonate in chains, and flayers that blink behind you — all telegraphed before they land.
03Economy
Salvage that must be extracted
Loot isn’t yours until it clears the ring — and the ring only opens in timed windows. Everything carried is a bet against the clock.
04Build
Level-up build choices
Every level forks the run: stack damage, widen the spread, or buy the seconds you’ll need later. Choose fast.
05Threat
Breach the Warden
An elite guardian seals the deep sectors. Break it for the richest haul in the slice — or route around and stay poor.
06Stakes
Death costs you everything
Die in the dark and the haul dies with you — unless you’ve already paid the Forge for insurance.
07Meta
The Forge remembers
Banked salvage buys permanent modules between runs: plating, weapon calibration, thrusters, and a bigger slice of the next haul.
08Depth
Rare and relic augments
Sixteen augments across three tiers. Relics only surface once your bank runs deep enough — and they change how the rig fights.
[ 02 ] Evidence
From the slice
Captured in-game · not mockups
Captured on the 0.4 deck — the three 0.5 layouts are charted below.
[ 03 ] Deck plans
Three decks, not three arenas
Top-down · generated from the game's own bitmap
Every deck is rooms joined by six- to ten-metre passes, with pillars that break sightlines. The swarm routes through the same gaps you do, so a corridor is both your escape and its funnel. The extraction pad is never next to where you spawn.
A plaza and four bridges. Every route crosses the middle, so every fight does too.
One long hall, two bays, two doors. The doors are the only safe ground — and the only way out.
Three rooms, three passes. The pad is at the far end, so extraction is a decision, not a wander.
[ 04 ] Interface
Controls
Mouse aims, keys move
W A S D
Move
MOUSE
Aim & pick target
SPACE
Dash
E
Hold to extract
CLICK / 1 2 3
Pick upgrade
R
Redeploy
M
Mute audio
[ 05 ] Briefing
First run
Risk / reward in three moves
Get in
Keep moving and let the auto-fire work. The opening minute is about not dying, not about looting the floor.
Grab salvage
Walk over drops to collect. The deeper you push, the richer the haul — and the further you are from the extraction ring when it goes wrong.
Decide when to leave
Hold E at the ring to bank the run. Greed is the only enemy you carry back.
⚠ Unsigned build
Windows SmartScreen may warn on first launch. Click More info → Run anyway.
No installer required — unzip the archive anywhere and run Voidforged.exe. Your saves and settings stay local to that folder.
[ 06 ] Build log
Patch notes
Newest first
v0.5.1
26 Oct 2026
- +Linux build: 64-bit x86, ships as a .tar.gz you extract and run
- *Direct downloads now list Windows and Linux side by side under the launcher button
- *The Windows launcher still installs and updates the game; Linux players grab the archive
v0.5.1
26 Oct 2026
- +Three decks instead of one open circle: CROSSFIRE, FOUNDRY and SPINE
- +Real chokepoints — rooms joined by six- to ten-metre passes that you and the swarm both have to use
- +Pillars and cover, so a fight has lanes to play with instead of one big furball
- +Deck edges are solid: rails stop you, gap, and the void stops anything that gets past
- +The Warden now has three phases — a telegraphed ground slam, a radial bolt volley, then reinforcements
- +The Warden breaches in next to you instead of strolling in from the far side of the map
- *The extraction pad is never beside your spawn now, so leaving is a decision
- *The swarm routes through the passages rather than grinding along the edge of the world
v0.4.0
26 Oct 2026
- +Spitters: ranged swarm that holds an 11-16 m ring and telegraphs every shot
- +Bombers: rush you, light a 0.8 s fuse, and detonate — and they chain-detonate each other
- +Flayers: blink behind you on a 3 s cycle, telegraphed 0.55 s ahead
- +Elites: 2.8x hull, a gold crown, triple salvage, and they turn up more often the longer you stay
- +Extraction is now windowed — the docking pad is only live for 12 s of every 55 s
- +The pad counts down, warns you 5 s ahead, and visibly wakes up when a window opens
- *The swarm's composition now evolves over the run instead of only getting denser
v0.3.0
26 Oct 2026
- +Mouse aiming — the gun follows your cursor instead of picking targets for you
- +Soft target lock: enemies inside a 12 degree cone of your aim take priority
- +Ground reticle shows where your shots land, and turns amber when a target is locked
- *The gun holds fire when the arena is empty instead of chattering into the void
v0.2.1
26 Oct 2026
- -Fixed level-up cards being picked automatically on some launches
- -Level-up cards now ignore input for their first 0.5 s, so a stray click cannot choose for you
v0.2.0
26 Oct 2026
- +The Forge: six permanent upgrade tracks paid for with banked salvage
- +Rarity tiers — common, rare and relic augments, relics unlocked by lifetime salvage
- +Fully procedural audio: weapon, impact, kills, dash, ambience and a chaos layer
- +Synthwave soundtrack, mute with M
- +Hangar screen, augment cards and a proper end screen
v0.1.0
25 Oct 2026
- +First vertical slice: swarm survival, salvage collecting, extraction and level-up augments
- +Phase dash with invulnerability frames
- +Loot orbs, the Warden mini-boss, procedural starfield arena