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Malicious Payload

Space pirates invaded your ship, they hacked your mainframe and gained controll of your robots. Your fellow robots turned into murdering robots. You need to find who responsible for this as a guard of your ship. Let him pay for what he done and get back what belongs to you.

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Last Howl
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Last Howl
Release
February 6, 2021
5 years and 177 days ago
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About the Game

Malicious Payload is a Story based Sci Fi Arcade Shooter game. There are two modes in the game: Story and Survival mode.

Story

You're a security guard on Minutor-CCXVI. You're having a boring day and you fallen asleep in the security room. Suddenly the computer shows security alerts. You check the security cameras and you can't see anything. But the system is captured by the space pirates, they sent a virus called Malicious Payload to the mainframe. The ship undergoes a loss of energy and begins to drift through space. You come out of the security room to understand what happened, but the miner-bots have turned into lethal robots. You think you can save the ship?

Survival

The longer you stay, the more successful you are. You can increase your reputation on Leaderboards worldwide. Malicious robots comes in waves in increasing form, will do anything to terminate you. Take the guns from robots you killed, or choose one you want from Holo Menu.


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  • Rail Rifle


  • Akai Hakko Katana

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