Only War

In the dark grimness of the far future, there is only war...

The Terran Imperium, United Systems Republic, and the Ruinous Cults are stuck in a never-ending war as planets will evolve into different types - falling into ruin as dead worlds or rising to become ecumenopoli - and fleets and sent to conquer new worlds. You are only a small cog in the machine of whatever faction you choose to play as you can fly as a fighter, interceptor, or bomber to destroy enemy fleets and help the war effort.

Controls:

WASD to move

Left Click to fire

Scroll Wheel to zoom in and out

Downloading is recommended for best performance, but not required.

Post Game Jam Update:

- Performance and shader issues are mostly solved - should be a much smoother experience now

- There is now an arrow to the nearest star to help with navigating.

- Armies now properly invade other planets, allowing for much more dynamic wars.

- There is a pause menu for in-game help, changing your team, restarting the game, and exiting the game.

- Shipyards have been added to planets (mostly give turrets for defence, but will be used in the future to allow player ship changes, upgrades, and more).

- Some visual improvements to make combat feel better.

Update 2:

- New faction: The Blossoming. These take the form of various large seeds throughout the galaxy that will periodically blossom and release clusters of flower-inspired ships to attack every other faction.

- Gates: There are intergalactic gates every-so-often in the galaxy. When one of the factions controls 50% or more of the total planets, gates will activate to call in fleets for the other factions.

- Each faction now has an additional battleship in their inventory they will deploy from more populated planets, albeit rarely.

- Music has been added for both the main menu and gameplay.

- The intro-cutscene is now skippable and has additional slides explaining the three main factions.

- Sound effects have varying pitch to make them less repetitive.

- A lot of optimization was done to make the high amount of ships and bullets less resource-intensive (collisions were reworked, bullets have an object pool, etc.).