STARVOID

LOCK. LOAD. DESTROY.

STARVOID is a brutal retro arcade space shooter about surviving a war that began with a human voice from deep space. Mining Colony E-47 receives the Miracle Message: a repeating distress signal that sounds human.

Every ship sent to investigate disappears.

You are Astra-Unit 09, the last defense-wing pilot capable of resisting the Viroxian signal. Fight through dead fleets, alien broodworlds, black-sun war zones, and Earth’s final orbital defense before the hive turns humanity into its next harvest.

Features

• A full four-act arcade campaign across 24 sectors
• Dark 16-bit sci-fi action inspired by classic home-console and arcade shooters
• Giant biomechanical bosses with multiple weak points and attack patterns
• Score-based permanent upgrades:
  • 150,000 — Smart Bomb
  • 250,000 — Extra Life
  • 1,000,000 — Double Shot
  • 2,000,000 — Triple Shot
• Galaga-style volley firing: shots must hit or leave the screen before the next volley can fire
• DAVE HARD difficulty: a 9/10 expert mode for players who want ruthless patterns and pressure
• Boss Rush mode
• Arcade attract/demo screen
• Full original soundtrack, boss themes, transmissions, story screens, static ending, and credits
• Included retro-style instruction booklet PDF

Controls

Arrow Keys / WASD

Move Astra-Unit 09

Space

Fire

Z / B

Smart Bomb

P / Esc

Pause

Q while paused

Return to title

Enter

Skip story cards, transmissions, and menus

Action

The Enemy

The Viroxian Empire is not invading for territory.

It is harvesting.

A hive-minded biomechanical species that feeds on stellar energy, the Viroxians turn fleets, colonies, and entire worlds into fuel for something far older than humanity. Their ships imitate human distress signals. Their machines remember the dead. Their final weapon has Earth in its sights.

Game Modes

Campaign

Fight from the wreckage surrounding E-47 to the final battle above Earth.

Boss Rush

Take on the campaign’s major enemies back-to-back with score, lives, bombs, and time carried across the entire run.

DAVE HARD

The expert arcade setting. Faster attacks, harsher formations, stronger threats, and no room for panic.

Installation

Extract the full game folder before launching.

Keep the EXE, starvoid_audio folder, and included files together so all music and sound effects load correctly.

Earth is waiting.

LOCK. LOAD. DESTROY.

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