A downloadable game for Windows

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Escape Space is a classic arcade space shooter with RPG mechanics. Fight for various factions against swarms of enemies or bosses and improve your standings, level up your rank, unlock new gear and weapons, and upgrade your spaceship.

3 DIFFERENT FACTIONS

As a mercenary, you'll get to decide for which faction(s) you're willing to fight. Your actions will have consequences, so choose wisely!

  • The Earth Military Conglomerate: the Earth's military faction. They usually have big guns and tend to use ballistic-based weapons when in combat.
  • The Void Outlaws: the renegade faction in space. They use weird tactics in combat with a wide variety of weapons, depending on what they might have stolen.
  • The Quantum Riders: the cult of scientists focusing on new technology. They usually have high-end energy weapons and shields at their disposal.

22 STORY MISSIONS

You'll get to play up to 12 different story missions in a single run, but there are 3 different paths you can take from the beginning to discover all of the 22 handcrafted story missions!

ENDLESS PROCEDURAL CONTRACTS

Between two story missions, you'll be able to grind for money or reputation by doing procedurally-generated contracts for the factions you wanna play with.

7 GAME MODES

There are up to 7 different mission types in the game, and you'll get to unlock them all the more you progress through the storyline.

  • The Elimination missions: go through some waves on enemies until you reach the priority target and hunt it down!
  • The Collect missions: fight waves of enemies until you gather enough of the requested component from their scrap!
  • The Escort missions: help an allied and defenseless unit to go through a space sector by destroying any enemy target in front of you!
  • The Warfare missions: get involved in a conflict between two factions and get some reinforcement from the faction that requested some help!
  • The Rush missions: assault an enemy faction's position and go through their defenses while destroying all of their units!
  • The Survival missions: fight enemy waves for a set time, and decide if you want to continue and earn more rewards by destroying more of them!
  • The Mayhem missions: target a fleet concentrating numerous elite enemies and take them all down!

5 DIFFICULTIES

Even if the story missions' difficulty is set and cannot be changed, you'll be able to play the procedurally-generated contract missions based on their difficulty. The more difficult they are, the higher the risks and rewards will be!

Having trouble with higher difficulties? Maybe it's time to grind lower-difficulty contracts to get some new gear and upgrades!

17 WEAPONS

You'll start to play with the default Firestorm machine gun unlocked, and then be able to expand your arsenal with gifted or purchased weapons!

12 MODS

Starting without any mod, you'll be able to get new perks by unlocking and selecting new mods! From a passive energy shield to an active E.M.P. system, test and decide what mod works best for you!

18 COLORS

Who said you cannot be classy in space? You can decide on your spaceship's colors using 18 different colors, on two layers (primary and secondary). Plus, you can also decide what the color of your thruster's exhaust is!

45 UPGRADES

In addition to the customization, you'll be able to constantly improve your spaceship by getting new upgrades until you get them all! Plan to unlock the most relevant ones for your playstyle first and dominate your enemies!

BEAUTIFUL HANDCRAFTED PIXEL ART

All of the in-game assets are hand-made with pixel art by myself, hope you'll enjoy them!

AN AMAZING OST

We teamed up with the very talented Scott Hsu who made this incredible OST for Escape Space!

Purchase

Buy Now$9.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:

Escape Space Build v1.0.2 ITCH DRM FREE.zip 430 MB

Development log

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Why on earth a Steam error for no licenses crashes this game?!? (saw a hotfix... if I uninstall it in the ith.io client and install it again, would the fixed version be installed?)
Additionally:
• either make space a viable option to skip dialogue/confirm - or add the option to do so in the control (this is ridiculous...)
• UI doesn't really allow much of a distinction for stuff in the missions - make some stuff pop more so you can tell at a glance what you need to know
• a graph on reps and build in the title screen would also be helpful

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As explained in the previous report about it, there was a missed Steam connection (for achievements) that got removed as soon as reported, and hot fixed. This was due to the fact that I made a drm-free package in a short time to join the effort of the GG25 strike bundle.

Unfortunately, beside bug fixing, there is no plan at the moment about updating the game.

Thanks,

ShidyGames.

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Hello, is there a way to launch your game in windowed mode? I can't find the option. Thx !

Hello, I'm afraid there's no way :( game runs in "fullscreen borderless window".

Hey, just bought the game in the GG25 bundle (10€) but after a few missions, the game closes and tells me that it requires a license.

Is it supposed to happen?

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Omg, absolutely not! Can you please send me a screenshot of that? I've made the DRM-free port in haste to support the GG25 strike fund, I assume I might have missed some Steam-related checks somewhere. I'll make sure to fix this asap.

Hey, I'm back! Thanks for reporting the problem with me. I've just uploaded a fixed version of the game that you can download and use instead of the previous one.

This one should have all Steam dependancies removed so no more API calls will try to validate a key that doesn't exist.

See the changelog: https://shidygames.itch.io/escape-space/devlog/886859/hotfix-1

Again, sorry for that! Hope you'll have fun with the game and thank you for supporting the GG25 strike fund!

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I confirm that it's fixed.

Thank you for the quick reaction ^^