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About This Game

You wake in a dead station. It is only the first world.

Afterwire is an isometric horde-survivor action RPG set in a derelict station adrift in the void — the starting world of a descent that Early Access grows, sector by sector, into the wired ruins beyond it. No heroes with faces here: you are not human, and neither is anything hunting you.

Two machines, one chassis slot.

Deploy as the SWARM-CORE - a nanite hive that shreds packs at close range - or the GLITCH IMP, a flickering saboteur that blinks through danger. Each carries its own passive skill canopy, its own signature active (Nova / Blink), and its own way of turning a bad room around.

Six weapons. Five damage sources. Machines that notice.

Shard volleys, darts, nano sprayers, arc coils, thermal lances, rail slugs — every weapon channels one of five attack sources (kinetic, thermal, voltage, nanite, glitch), and rogue machines carry resistances to match. Loadout is a decision, not a habit; the weakness chips on every health bar tell you when you guessed wrong.




The horde is the level.

A threat director escalates 120-machine sectors that scale with your journey: weldlings that merge, murmurs that carve crescents out of the dark, censers that sweep fire, slagbellies, Torque sentry-balls — with elite and champion variants rolled into every spawn. Each sector seals behind a boss door; the arc caps in three sealed sectors and the Warden — Walking Autoclave Dreadnought — at the end. No run structure, no meta-loop tax: fight, level, choose your overclocks, spend credits and scrap at requisition terminals, extract, push on.

Built to be read at a glance.

True-3D spaces under an orthographic isometric camera, a Sodium Derelict palette - amber and teal practicals on blue steel - fog-of-war disclosure that keeps the dark honest, and self-emissive hero anchors so you never lose your machine in the beautiful mess. First-deploy tutorial beacons walk a fresh machine through the pod, the camera and the first sluice.



Built for your pad, too.

Full controller support with physical rumble that rides every hit-stop, and six languages out of the box: English, Polish, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazil, French.

The station is where you start. What comes after it arrives through Early Access - the roadmap is public, and wishlists hear it first.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some assets in Afterwire were created with the assistance of generative AI tools, under the developer's direction and review:

- Music and sound effects - generated with AI music/audio tools, then edited, mastered, and integrated by the developer.
- Some 2D artwork - key art, loading and menu backdrop images, created with AI image tools and curated/edited by the developer.
- Translations - non-English text drafted with AI assistance and reviewed against the English source.

All gameplay code, 3D models, animations, shaders, level design, and game design were made without generative AI. No content is AI-generated during gameplay - the game does not use AI at runtime.