Station Blacksite

Containment failed. Hold the station. Kill the specimen.

A top-down sci-fi horde shooter. Something got out of the vivarium on Station Blacksite, a research post in deep space, and the crew did not make it. You are the last security officer aboard. Fight through three failing sectors, kill the SPECIMEN, and hold the holding wing when every cell opens at once.

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How a run works

1. HAB RING: crew quarters and the medical bay. The horde pours out of vents on every side while the ring breaks down around you.
2. THE VIVARIUM: the labs. Gas, flood and blackout, and the SPECIMEN waiting in the only room big enough to hold it.
3. CONTAINMENT: engineering, the cryo bay and the computer core. Survive the waves, then the breach.

The blast doors only open when a sector is clear. Your score is the sector you reach, then your kills, then your time. Your ten best runs are kept.

What you fight with

• Seven weapons: MK7 sidearm, arc rifle, cryo scattergun, pulse cannon, plasma mines, mining laser and hull riveter.
• Grenades that clear everything close. You start with three, and more packs lie around the decks.
• OVERCLOCK: kill 8 in 10 seconds and you get 5 seconds of an overcharged weapon. You take no damage, and everything else slows down.
• Armour that recharges once you break off from the fight, and health packs under the beacons.

What you fight against

• The horde: mutated crew, crawlers, exploders, fast mutants and alien hunters. Their vents are never all on one side, so holding one corner gets you surrounded.
• The SPECIMEN, a boss twice your height.
• A station that fails while you fight. Coolant haze, arc discharges, a gas leak and a flood that slows everyone. A blackout leaves you with only your shoulder lamp, and a hull breach lets in radiation that stops your armour recharging.

Difficulty

RECRUIT, SOLDIER or VETERAN, picked with the sector on the deployment screen. A first-launch briefing and an in-game HOW TO PLAY cover the rest.

Controls

• Move: WASD
• Aim: mouse
• Fire: left mouse button
• Grenade: right mouse button
• Run: Shift
• Dash: F
• Switch weapon: mouse wheel or 1 to 7
• Pause: Esc

You aim and move independently, so you can back away from a crowd and keep firing into it.

Credits

Made by jolvedgames with Unity and TopDown Engine (More Mountains). Art from Synty Studios: the POLYGON Sci-Fi Horror, Boss Zombies, Sci-Fi City, Sci-Fi Worlds and Apocalypse packs, and the INTERFACE Sci-Fi Soldier HUD, Sci-Fi Menus and Apocalypse HUD packs. Water: Stylized Water 3 (Staggart Creations). Effects: Epic Toon FX (Archanor VFX). Music: Ultimate Game Music Collection (John Leonard French). Zombie animation: ZOMBIE PRO (MocapOnline). Voices: Zombie is Coming (Principle Sound Design). Fonts: Orbitron and Exo 2 (SIL Open Font Licence).