Planned Release Date: November 2026

About This Game

Build the ship. Survive the war. Leave a legend.

Starflare Dominion is a neon arcade space-combat campaign where every attachment changes your build and every run creates a new pilot history. Launch from the Spaceport, cut through escalating enemy formations, recover Salvage, mount new weapons and defenses, and push toward bosses that test the ship you assembled.

Choose how you fly

• Easy Story delivers the complete campaign and personalized narrative with more forgiving combat and stronger recovery.
  
• Hard Story is the intended high-pressure campaign balance, with the complete Cantina, news, rank, honor, and finale systems.
  
• Bullet Hell strips away the story layer for adaptive combat, grazing, Neon Overdrive, Emergency Cores, and separate score chasing.

Turn Salvage into a warship

Recovered attachments mount directly onto your ship and shape how it fights. Combine projectile and beam weapons, defensive systems, utility effects, and run upgrades while managing weapon heat, directional shields, hull damage, and the choice to return to safety or keep pushing.

Fight a campaign that remembers you

Story runs build a personalized pilot record around your name and Call Sign. Cantina patrons react to completed battles, the Discovered News Feed preserves the campaign, Old Man Rich reveals a serialized mystery, and the final legend reflects the victories, damage, PERFECT clears, promotions, and decisions actually recorded during the run.

Learn the systems, then master them

The Training Simulator teaches flight, aiming, weapons, shields, attachments, survival systems, Story operations, and Bullet Hell mechanics without changing campaign progress. Play with keyboard and mouse or a gamepad.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Starflare Dominion uses generative AI in two ways. Some visual assets, music, and sound effects were created with assistance from generative AI tools and were selected, edited, processed, and integrated by Whimstead LLC. During Story play, hosted OpenAI models may generate bounded narrative text, including pilot backgrounds, quotes, Cantina news, Old Man Rich stories, campaign consequences, and final legends. Players do not directly prompt an unrestricted chatbot. Generated text is checked by structured rules and validators, with retries and curated local fallback content when needed.