Vertical Slice · v0.4.0

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.

Launcher — Windows Launcher — macOS

Windows 10/11 · 272 KB · macOS 12+ (Apple silicon) · 262 KB

The launcher checks for new builds, installs them, and starts the game.

Or grab the build directly — Windows ~36 MB · macOS ~46 MB

Single-player Top-down swarm combat Windows & macOS Auto-updating launcher

[ 01 ] Manifest

What’s in this slice

Eight systems · one run loop

01Movement

Aim & auto-fire

WASD steers, the rig fires where your cursor points. Momentum is survival — plant your feet and the void takes them.

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

Third-person swarm combat in the derelict arena: muzzle flash, salvage orbs and a closing swarm — Contact — the swarm closes while you spend the seconds you needed

A late-run swarm massing around the player — Pressure — density climbs the longer you stay

The hangar screen where banked salvage is spent on the Forge — The Forge — banked salvage becomes permanent

[ 03 ] 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

[ 04 ] 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.

[ 05 ] Build log

Patch notes

Newest first

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