Convicted Galaxy

Convicted Galaxy is a single-player spaceship shooter that combines roguelike and shoot ’em up elements with a third-person perspective in a 2.5D universe. After a disaster aboard an Interstellar Correctional Fleet (ICF) prison ship, you are stranded in an unexplored galaxy among escaped prisoners who grow stronger over time. You pilot an escape pod through procedurally generated solar systems, gather resources, build structures and support stations around planets, and upgrade your spacecraft as you work to strengthen yourself and weaken the enemy. Each new galaxy gives you only one chance to complete your objectives.

The mission

Humanity has spent nearly 1000 Pulsar Years (PY) living mostly aboard stations and ships orbiting planets in the Milky Way. Attempts to find another habitable planet in the galaxy have failed, while resource-rich planets, including Earth, have become sources of food and minerals. Poor nutrition and living conditions in space have reduced average lifespans by more than half, from 70PY to 30PY, and both resources and orbital space are dwindling. After a deadly station collision, preceded by others, the Federation of Earth Descendants (FED) sends the ICF on potentially one-way colonizing missions to help humanity survive beyond Earth.

ICF ships carry Advanced Capabilities Exploration (ACE) pods and an assigned unit from the Office of Galactic Reconnaissance and Exploration (OGRE), tasked with finding planets suitable for human settlement. You are an ICF guard aboard one of these ships, which reaches the outer edge of an unexplored galaxy. After waking from stasis, you head for your post as flickering lights and tremors disrupt the ship. When evacuation begins, you board an ACE pod with help from senior ICF members and initiate an emergency takeoff. The cell blocks detach from the prison ship and pods launch from them, while the main hull appears unscathed and launches none.

You wake from stasis in an asteroid belt, surrounded by debris and unpowered ACE pods. The prison ship holds the coordinates for the destination system and planet, your best chance of finding refuge. Your objectives are to locate and determine the cause of the evacuation, confirm that the mission objective planet exists, and seed a new civilization there.

Explore and build

You search large, procedurally generated solar systems for resources while fending off escaped convicts. Adaptive audio, sound and visual cues help with resource discovery and navigation. You build and destroy space structures and vessels, including stations, satellites and ships, and can construct frigate-class siege ships. Friendly and enemy factions compete for territory across the galaxy, while enemy spacecraft become stronger and harder to defeat as the game progresses.

Upgrading and equipping your spacecraft is vital to progress. You can discover upgrades and knowledge, unlock objective-based upgrades, and stack ship specializations, abilities and weapons. The universe, systems, planets and spaceships are procedurally generated, and each new galaxy is a permadeath run with a single chance to achieve your objectives.