Armada Fighters

Armada Fighters is a single-player 3D arcade shoot ’em up built around fast-paced combat, permanent progression, equipment management and score-based competition. From an angled top-down view, you pilot a ship through enemy waves and face a boss at the end of each level. You control your own pace rather than being forced forward: move ahead, slow down or retreat to manage enemies, incoming fire and hazards. Early levels take around 2 minutes; later ones can take up to 10 minutes, depending on difficulty and how many attempts you make.

Levels and enemies

The current game includes one world with 10 levels, 36 standard enemy types and 10 bosses, one at the end of each level. Enemy movement includes vertical and horizontal paths, parabolic trajectories and routes through multiple checkpoints. These patterns combine into different waves that test your reflexes and positioning.

Environmental hazards include indestructible asteroids that destroy your ship on contact, volcanoes that damage your shield and then your hull, and other obstacles that reduce your shield or health. Each boss is a larger version inspired by a standard enemy, with its own movement, projectiles and attack patterns. After reaching the final level of the main progression, you unlock a Boss Rush map where you face all 10 bosses in succession.

Equip your ship

In the garage, you can equip several categories of permanent upgrades at once. Equipment can be improved through multiple tiers; each tier costs more gold and provides better statistics. You earn gold by playing, and optional in-game purchases offer gold packs to speed up progression.

• Missiles: improve damage, range or firing pattern.
• Firing patterns: choose Normal, Burst, Spread 3, Spread 5 or Circle.
• Shield: increase your protection capacity.
• Vitality: increase your healing capacity.
• Engine: improve your ship’s speed.
• Multi-cannon: fire two or three missiles at once.

Enemies and bosses can drop gold, additional shield capacity, healing upgrades, temporary fire-rate increases, temporary multi-cannons and temporary missiles. Shield, fire-rate and multi-cannon bonuses activate immediately and last for a limited time. Healing upgrades last for the current run. You can store any number of temporary missiles; their duration pauses while they are unequipped, so you can choose when to use them.

Game modes

The game has two modes: Classic and Ranked. It also offers four difficulty levels: Rookie, Pilot, Legend and Demon. Difficulty changes enemy numbers, resistance and damage, as well as bonus availability, points and gold rewards.

In Classic mode, you use your permanent garage equipment, choose a difficulty and start from any level you have unlocked. You can replay unlocked levels freely to improve your score, earn gold and upgrade equipment, with unlimited retries. Gold and score from a level are validated only after you defeat its boss and complete it; if you are defeated before the end, rewards from that attempt are lost. Unlocked levels, validated gold and permanent equipment stay available, while temporary bonuses and stored missiles are lost if you leave the current run.

Ranked mode gives every player the same starting conditions: permanent garage equipment is disabled, and each run begins at level 1.1. You have five attempts to progress through the levels in a session. After five defeats or if you leave the run, Ranked progression ends and the next attempt starts at level 1.1. Temporary bonuses remain usable, but permanent equipment purchases and upgrades provide no advantage.

Scores and missions

Your score depends on enemies destroyed, the percentage of spawned enemies defeated, level completion time, the percentage of dropped bonuses collected and the selected difficulty. Monthly leaderboards are available in the game and reset each month; a permanent overall leaderboard is available through Cosludia.

Daily and weekly missions reward additional gold. Their objectives can include playing Ranked mode, equipping an item or logging in for several consecutive days. The first level has a tutorial covering movement, shooting and the main in-game bonuses.

Account options

Guest Mode lets you play without a Cosludia account or an internet connection. Classic mode and local progression are available as a guest; Ranked mode, missions and leaderboards require a connected Cosludia account.

Soundtrack

The game includes an original electronic soundtrack with retro influences.