Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Your mates. One B-17. Everything's on fire.

FLAK HAPPY is a co-op WW2 bomber roguelite for 1–5 players. You and your mates crew a single B-17 Flying Fortress, fly missions, fight off enemy fighters, and try to bring the aircraft and each other home.

You can walk around the fuselage, climb into the gun turrets, and move between compartments while the aircraft is in flight. Everyone has a job to do, and usually there's more than one thing going wrong at a time.

The job

Hit the target. Keep the plane flying. Get everyone home.

Fly it. Take the controls yourself, or let the AI handle the flying while you get on with something else.

Bomb it. Line up the target in the bombsight, open the bomb bay doors, and drop your payload.

Shoot it. Jump into the nose, top, ball, waist, or tail guns and keep enemy fighters off your back.

Navigate it. Plot your course at the chart table. Lose the radio, and you'll have to work things out the old-fashioned way.

Something's gone wrong. Get on it.

Flak does more than chip away at a health bar. It leaves you with problems to fix.

An engine catches fire. Your controls take a hit, making the aircraft a lot harder to fly.

A gun jams just as enemy fighters close in.

The radio goes dead. The oxygen line fails. The hydraulics give out, and the bomb bay doors won't budge.

A cable gets cut. Someone needs to find the break and repair it with a hammer, while the whole sky is trying to kill you.

Someone's bleeding in the waist. Grab the medkit and get over there.

There's no magic fix. When something breaks, someone has to get over there and sort it out.

While you're putting out a fire, someone else might be clearing a gun jam, getting the radio working, or keeping a wounded crewmate alive. There's always something that needs doing, and rarely enough people to do it all.

More than bombing runs

Not every mission is a simple case of flying to a target and dropping your payload.

You might have to land on an enemy airstrip, grab some valuable items, and get back in the air before the enemy catches on. Other missions pit your crew against powerful enemy bosses that won't go down without a fight.

Plans change, things go wrong, and getting home is rarely as simple as it sounds.

Get paid. Spend it. Do it all again.

Every mission is a chance to earn cash. Shoot down fighters, repair the aircraft, treat the wounded, hit your targets, and bring the crew home to get paid.

Earn your keep. Get paid for kills, repairs, healing, successful bombing runs, and bringing the crew home.

Spend your money. Everyone has their own wallet. Visit the quartermaster to buy new equipment, upgrades, cosmetics, and weapons, or put your money towards repairs in the hangar.

Watch your fire. Friendly fire costs you money. Maybe check who's in that turret before you start shooting.

Kit out your bomber. Between missions, choose from a pool of 15 aircraft mods to shape your run.

Know when you're beaten. Lose the aircraft, and the run is over.

Every run is a little different. Make the most of what you've got, keep the crew alive, and see how many missions you can survive.

What's in the game

• 1–5 player online co-op. Fly with a full crew or go solo, with AI filling any empty seats.

• A fully walkable B-17. Move around the aircraft in flight, take up positions, and brace yourself when things get rough.

• Hands-on damage control. Fires, breaches, severed cables, jammed guns, and wounded crew all need attention.

• A sky full of trouble. Take on enemy fighters, flak, bombers, and powerful enemy bosses. If things become truly hopeless, you can always bail out.

• Varied mission objectives. Bomb targets, land behind enemy lines, steal valuable items, and fight your way through dangerous encounters.

• Roguelite progression. Build your career, choose aircraft mods, make hangar repairs, and practise your aim at the gunnery range.

• Proximity voice and an intercom. Talk to whoever's nearby, coordinate with the crew, and try not to panic when the intercom gets shot out.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

A few minor UI icons were AI-assisted that are being used as placeholders. These will be replaced as gameplay and art direction gets finalised.