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Starship Kepler

Starship Kepler is an intense arcade shooter that encourages movement and variety. Traverse open space, explore anomalies, face-off against bosses. Race a dying clock through an endless maze of procedurally generated corridors. Survive an evolving arcade arena.

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Nathan Kramer
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Nathan Kramer Software
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About the Game

Starship Kepler is an intense arcade shooter that encourages movement and variety.

  • Traverse open space, explore anomalies, face-off against bosses.

  • Race a dying clock through an endless maze of procedurally generated corridors.

  • Survive an evolving arcade arena and chase a high score.

Elemental

Your ship is shaped by elements. Collect and combine 8 different elements to change how you fight, from familiar projectile weapons to stranger builds like sustained beams, chained lightning, reflective weaponry, and fire. The right element can turn a desperate screen into a comeback.

Free Play Mode

In Free Play mode, you travel outward through a strange and hostile deep space, following signals, triggering anomalies, and uncovering a quiet cosmic story told between battles.

Quick Play Mode

In Quick Play mode, you're confined to a morphing cage and have to survive for as long as you can, and beat your high score.

Labyrinth

Labyrinth drops you into an endless chain of procedurally generated corridors - twisting tunnels, honeycomb chambers, webs, and sprawling warrens - and gives you almost no time to survive.

Your only way forward is to keep earning it back.

Features

  • Fast twin-stick arcade combat

  • Difficult

  • Short, arcade style gameplay

  • Free Play with escalating anomalies and boss encounters

  • Quick Play for immediate score-chasing survival

  • Elemental weapon builds that change your attack style

  • Bright, minimalist visuals built around clarity, motion, and impact

  • A lonely sci-fi atmosphere beneath the chaos

Burn brighter. Push farther. Something out there is listening.

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