Voidburn

The deepest, most intense free web game you'll ever hover over.

It's like Futurama meets Disco Elysium meets Portal meets Nine Inch Nails meets Asteroids.

Unlock a tile, fly out to it, clear it, spend what you earned, repeat until you find the exit. The further you get from spawn, the harder it hits back.

Some things out here only speak in waveforms

A live vectorscope wired into your HUD, drawing every frequency in range as a shape. There are entities that will not talk to you any other way.

The faster you fight, the harder you hit

Damage is the fuel. Every hit you land feeds a ten second window, flying flat out multiplies the gain, and working the whole kit beats holding the trigger. Climb the tiers and the meter hands you bombs, the reflector, the gravity well. Between you and your hull sits an overshield that eats incoming fire and only grows back once you stop taking it.

Fights that warp the picture

Real 2D lighting with shadows cast by everything solid. Bloom, CRT, aberration, datamosh. While the Bloodshot Eye is alive it drifts the shake, the squash, the hit-stop and the color until the whole fight plays like a bad trip.

You are an OPEX Ranger. This is a job.

OPEX invented the shift engine in the late 20th century and has spent five hundred years driving humanity forward through the multiverse. Your contract is to spread the knowledge of shift travel and bring back data. Most aliens will not speak to you. They have been thoroughly propagandized.

Your handler passes along whatever the game just told him to say, and something older is already using your own instruments to reach you.

Go in and close it from the inside

Sealed pockets hanging off the map, each with its own walls and its own rules. Boss arenas, enemy gauntlets, orb runs, a trivia show that openly insults you, and one that turns out to be an entire visual novel.

Land on a planet and the game becomes a sidescroller

A whole 2D platformer under the surface, drawn in its own layered style with light that floods through the tiles. Double jumps, wall kicks, rolls and climbs. Levers, key doors, combo locks, chests, dart traps, crumbling floors, and its own track on the radio.

Money that comes in while you are gone

30+ abilities. Five slots. One ship you painted yourself.

No classes. Rebuild the tree whenever you want a different ship, craft deployables out of the junk you haul home, and gamble on modifier pickups that rewrite a run mid-flight. Hull shapes, trails, flame color, HUD tint. The whole cockpit takes your paint job.