BlockShip Wars: Roguelike

BlockShip Wars: Roguelike is a physics-based action roguelike/RPG with 3D graphics. You build a spacecraft from components, explore large procedural maps and fight computer-controlled enemy ships. Ships are made from components that you can salvage and equip on your own vessel. The first of three planned episodes, “The Golden Pyramid Portals,” is available.

Build and modify your ship

You can attach components taken from enemy ships directly to yours. More than 80 component types can be welded onto your ship, including shields, railguns, EMP launchers, missile launchers and lasers. Most weapons have multiple configurations, and melee weapons include spikes, pikes, razor armour and spinning saws. Powered hinges, hydraulic extenders, sliders and chain links provide articulating parts, while a modular damage and power system governs your ship.

Sensors can trigger weapon or defensive systems, close a set of jaws, activate a special ability and perform other actions. An interactive tutorial introduces ship building.

Game modes

• Roguelike mode: Permadeath, no levelling or XP system, and special abilities dropped randomly by defeated enemies. Enemies are roughly the same level, while bosses are a little stronger, making ship design key.
• RPG mode: Gain experience, unlock special abilities by levelling up and defeating bosses, and face enemies and bosses whose levels increase as you progress.
• Ship building mode: Build and test ships freely, outside active games. You can test against eight enemies of varying sizes and types, which can also appear in the wild during a normal game.

Missions and stations

Alongside the primary missions against bosses, secondary missions offer ways to level up faster and earn higher-level or harder-to-find components. Missions are available at every space station, with roughly 25 stations—about one in each area—in each game. They replenish as you complete them, are randomly generated and scale to the difficulty of the area. For each mission, you can take a set amount of gold or gamble for a better prize.

• Cargo missions: Attach cargo containers to your ship and deliver them safely to the destination station for a reward.
• Hunt missions: Destroy a specified number of a type of drone ship in the target area.
• Trophy missions: Retrieve a specified type of component from an enemy ship in the target area and return it for a reward.

More than 200 freight ships fly around the map. You can trade with them, buy items with gold if you lack the goods they want, and use them to help find undiscovered space stations.

Enemies and bosses

The game has more than 50 AI-controlled drone ships to fight and salvage. Each is built entirely from components you can use on your own ship, and many have special abilities you can unlock. Enemies have pack dynamics and individual personalities; sometimes one will attack another by accident and start a fight. There are seven bosses, accessed by destroying Shield Generation Stations.

Blueprints and abilities

You can create and test blueprints outside a save game and store them in your library. Blueprints can be downloaded from or published to the Steam Workshop, and imported or exported between your library and save-game libraries. You can build a blueprint instantly in-game if you have the required materials.

The game includes 18 special abilities, such as Torpedo, EMP missile, Shockwave and Singularity. You can explore large procedural maps, store extra components and crafting materials in a four-page inventory, and craft items using materials stacked in your inventory. Blueprints are unlocked by melting down components. Space life forms appear between battles and examine salvage, as well as you if you get too close.