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Retro style Arcade Space Shooter, Roguelike/lite, Multiplayer, Artillery Mode, Ship editor.
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FIRESTARTER is a vertical-scrolling arcade shooter with ship customization, branching missions and multi-part bosses. It includes a five-episode campaign and 59 levels across campaign and contract missions.
Gameplay
Build your loadout from 19 ships, 58 weapons and 36 sidekicks. Equip front and rear weapons, upgrade shields and generators, and improve weapons through 11 power levels. Reactor capacity affects both sustained fire and shield regeneration, so equipment choices matter.
Fight through shipyards, asteroid fields, crystal shoals and industrial worlds. Dodge bullet patterns, collect equipment and destroy individual boss components to weaken their attacks.
Game modes
- Campaign: Five episodes with branching routes, secrets, hangar upgrades and collectible story datacubes.
- Contracts: Freelance missions with objectives, equipment rewards and five reputation tiers.
- Arcade: Complete an episode using weapon pickups and limited spare ships.
- Timed Battle: Three-minute score challenges.
- Co-op: Local two-player arcade and online co-op. Local players can link ships for combined weapon attacks.
- Kiln Siege: Turn-based artillery with destructible terrain, deployable units and two victory conditions.
Lore and setting
You play as Rook Ashgrove, callsign FIRESTARTER, a freelance pilot on the Halcyon Verge. The Kindling Combine transforms dead planets into habitable worlds using enormous atmospheric burners.
When your wingman uncovers a powerful mineral and is killed for it, you reclaim your impounded ship and turn against the Combine and its wildfire-control AI, PYRE.
Recovered datacubes expand the setting through personal accounts, corporate correspondence and dry humour.
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Total Users
18
Total Sessions
5.6 hours
Total Playtime
Global Statistics
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Package ID:
l337157games.firestarter
Created:
2026-09-21 07:52 UTC
Updated:
2026-09-21 10:28 UTC
Type:
game
Public:
Yes
Version:
393840
files:
1,529
Size:
272.8 MB
Engine Version:
29
Asset Version ID:
393840
Version Created:
2026-09-21 10:28 UTC
Hash:
1789986498
Manifest: Open manifest
Multiplayer:
Yes
Versus:
Yes
Co-op:
Yes
settings Engine & Multiplayer Configuration
Player Count:
1 - 2 Players
Tick Rate:
60 Hz
Network Type:
Multiplayer
Startup Scene:
scenes/main_menu.scene
Map Select:
Hidden
more_horiz Additional Properties
Summary:
Vertical-scrolling arcade shooter: five-episode campaign, 59 levels, 19 ships, 58 guns, a job board, co-op, an artillery mode.
Tags:
shmup,arcade,shooter,vertical,sprite,retro,campaign,upgrades,coop,singleplayer,multiplayer,artillery,contracts,pixel,action
393840
Sep 21, 2026
Launch fixes
393795
Sep 21, 2026
Alpha Pass
381705
Sep 16, 2026
Changes on 2026-09-16
381298
Sep 15, 2026
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