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Free on Steam. The demo has its own app, so its players are counted separately.
A top-down space shooter with deep RPG progression. Fly a voiced story in four acts, from a war across three galaxies to the gravity wells of Kepler, lead your wingmen, hunt pirate captains and hold a collapsing front. Solo, or with a friend on the second controller.
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Review score: 97% on 2026-11-01 → 96% today (152 reviews)
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Changed: Mac (1 download)
Patch notesUpdate 1.3.9: sharper wingmen, pirates in their own colours
Changed: Windows (1 download)
Changed: Windows, Mac (2 downloads)
Patch notesUpdate 1.3.8: legendary ships, a living front, weapons with a role
Nine new languages The whole game is now subtitled in Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Polish, Turkish, Czech, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese, on top of English, French, Spanish, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Voices stay in English …
Arcade Rock Breaker: the local high scores were out of reach. The champion now sits at 12,000 to 16,000 at Horizon, and tables you have already played are adjusted once. If your best is now on top, the Champion achievement unlocks at your next game there. Pinb…
Update 1.3.4 is out. It fills the spaceports' arcade room, gives the second player more to do in co-op, and brings in several ideas you posted on the forum and on Discord. Thank you to everyone who takes the time to write. A bigger arcade room DUNE RALLY: a ro…
Update 1.2.6 is out, and it is the biggest one since 1.1: you can now land on planets, the galaxy has moved to 3D, and the spaceports have an arcade room. Thank you to everyone who sent feedback on the forum, on Discord and by mail: a lot of what follows comes…
A new dodge move, crew talks, a two-step difficulty choice and a balance pass New Dodge: a quick sidestep in the direction you're flying (Space / B on a gamepad / a new touch button). For a split second, enemy fire can't touch you. It recharges in 5 seconds an…
New animated portraits, and your demo progress kept safe New / Improved ARIA and the Nexus have new portraits, drawn in the same style as the rest of the crew, and animated: ARIA's hologram shimmers above its projector, and the Nexus's core glows as it speaks.…
Space Defender is 30% off until November 9. After that, the base price goes up to €13.99 (with matching prices in other currencies). Since its release in September, the game has grown a lot: four acts and Kepler's ending, landings with the rover, legendary shi…
Space Defender is made by one person. Many of you asked how to support the game beyond buying it, so here is the Supporter Pack, at $4.99. What's inside Arcade cabinet mode: the whole game on an old arcade screen, with scanlines, big pixels and cabinet sound (…
Space Defender is now available on phones and tablets, on the App Store and on Google Play. The full game This isn't a cut-down version: it's the same game as on PC, with all four acts of the story, Act IV "Kepler" included, the spaceport arcade room and voice…
On October 6, I promised you the rest of the story for today. Here it is: Act IV "Kepler" is out, free for everyone who owns the game. Kepler The mining world where it all began, abandoned for twenty years. Its shafts were left open, and down there, cores are …
Hello pilots! Thank you for being here for Space Defender. I wanted to tell you about my new game, out this week: Rêverie: Audio Stories. No spaceships this time: these are illustrated audio stories you listen to like an audiobook and where you choose what hap…
Last week I told you we would go down the shafts. Here we are. The descent On Kepler, some contracts aren't played on the surface. You dive into the shaft, and the fight happens at the bottom. Down there, it's dark. You only see by the glow of your spotlights …
Space Defender was made by one person, and today two more games from the same small studio come out on Steam. Sourcebound A stealth roguelite in the dark where you only see what you hear. Every footstep and every sonar pulse lights up the walls for a moment...…
Last week I announced Kepler. As promised, here is the first new way to fight. Gravity wells At the heart of the asteroids Kepler's miners dug out, the old shafts pull everything in: ships, shots, missiles, loot. Your shots bend around a well, and so do the mi…
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