Planned Release Date: Nov 24, 2026

About This Game

Project BLACKNODE is a single-player, top-down space roguelite inspired by classic arcade games. Turn, thrust, and drift through asteroid fields while firing in the direction your ship faces. Your momentum carries you through each fight, your build decides how you handle the next one. 

Extraction:

Explore seamless, procedurally generated space filled with hostile patrols, guarded part caches, unknown signals, and derelict ships. Fight for a discovery, collect salvage, and decide whether your hull can take another encounter. Reach an extraction beacon and survive its countdown to secure your haul.


Endless mode:

Take your build into a fixed-camera arena where ships, asteroids, and projectiles wrap around the screen. Survive rising enemy pressure, face upgraded rival pilots and periodic main bosses, and turn collected salvage into field upgrades and score. Compare your best score and its survival time on globally or between friends on the leaderboard.

Make the ship yours:

Features:

- Two distinct modes: procedural, time-limited Extraction and a classic wraparound Endless arena.

- Classic momentum-based flight: rotate, thrust, drift, and fire in the direction your ship faces.

- Six ship hulls with customizable engines, weapons, utility modules, and special parts.

- Stacking field upgrades, including upgrades tailored to your equipped special.

- Part recovery encounters, unknown signals, restored derelicts, and convoy contracts.

- Four regions with different hazards and opportunities in Extraction.

- Hostile patrols, missile carriers, randomized rival pilots, turret stations, and four main boss types.

- Three daily contracts to choose from, with one selected for each Extraction run.

- Persistent ship and part unlocks funded by successful extractions.

- Steam leaderboards showing names, scores, and survival times, with separate boards for custom Endless rules.

- Keyboard and gamepad support, plus ship and projectile color customization.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

AI tools assisted with some in-game text, including item descriptions and interface wording.