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SpaceLift

Wake up as an engineer on a failing space elevator in this narrative-driven side-view 3D sci-fi adventure. Explore spacecraft and service decks, repair broken systems, solve light puzzles, and uncover what happened to the missing crew.

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About the Game

The systems are failing. Terminals are offline. Telemetry is stale. Crew logs contradict each other. Somewhere between Earth and orbit, something has gone wrong, and you are one of the few people left who might still be able to fix it.

Space Lift is a narrative-driven sci-fi adventure about an engineer trying to keep a failing orbital transport system alive. Your journey begins on Earth, continues up the space elevator, and leads into stations, spacecraft, and remote off-world locations.

Explore service decks, maintenance rooms, spacecraft interiors, and quiet facilities where the crew should still be. Restore power, unlock terminals, repair damaged machinery, operate a remote-controlled drone, and piece together what happened from logs, diagnostics, maps, and missing mission records.

The game uses a side-view 3D perspective: readable and cinematic like a side-scroller, but built as a fully 3D world with depth, navigation, and spaces to investigate.

The deeper you go, the less reliable the systems become.

  • Follow a grounded sci-fi story from Earth to orbit and beyond

  • Explore a space elevator, stations, spacecraft, and off-world facilities

  • Play as an engineer repairing damaged systems instead of fighting through them

  • Restore power, unlock terminals, operate machinery, and solve light puzzles

  • Control a remote drone to reach places you cannot

  • Investigate crew logs, diagnostics, maps, and missing mission records

  • Experience a narrative-focused adventure with walking-sim elements

  • Navigate a fully 3D world from a side-view camera perspective

  • Uncover what happened to the missing crew without knowing who, or what, to trust