Hyper Echelon

Hyper Echelon is a space shooter about the Royal Space Force’s fight against EXODON, an alien force bringing chaos to the Cyan Galaxy. You pilot the single-seat Titan starfighter across a campaign spanning 10 distinct worlds, destroying enemy forces and defeating their leaders. A squad of wingmen fights alongside you, while the Starhulk carrier serves as a mobile base where you upgrade your ship.

Missions and story

The story mode offers more than 10 hours of gameplay. Each mission has four objectives, such as destroying every enemy unit, finding collectibles or completing tasks specific to that mission. You earn medals by completing objectives: you can pursue all of them in one run for a top rank or return to focus on different objectives. Four difficulty tiers are available for every world, each with a fresh set of objectives and medals, greater Golden Parts rewards, and new or improved enemy units. Across the story missions, there are 160 objective medals.

Opening and closing animations frame the game, while atmospheric cutscenes introduce all 10 missions. Animated dialogue scenes advance a story of unlikely friendships amid war before and after every mission. Briefings describe each scenario and add details about the universe.

Ships and combat

You can evolve the Titan’s weapons from a single-shot cannon into spread shots, lasers, rockets and bombs. The Titan and its wingmen also have special abilities, including attacks, shields and the power to slow time. Using these abilities requires Plasma, which you collect by breaking crystals or absorbing it from Space Kraken.

You can bring a wingman into missions for extra firepower and special abilities, but controlling two ships at once also makes you a bigger target. Three wingmen characters can be unlocked by playing missions. In two-player local co-op, a friend can control a wingman.

Upgrades and rewards

Collect Golden Parts in battle and spend them on 320 incremental upgrades across eight ship components. Upgrades improve your combat performance and visibly change the Titan in the hangar. Rare Star Cart drops unlock special rewards, but you must survive to the end of the mission to claim them. Their perks include stronger wingman weapons, upgrade discounts and character skins; there are 32 Star Carts.

The game tracks progress and statistics such as play time, kills, boss kills, wingman use and special ability use. It also has 36 achievements, which provide in-game Golden Parts rewards.

Game modes

Hyper Echelon has four game modes:

• Story: Play the campaign across 10 worlds and complete mission objectives to earn medals.
• Arcade Mode: Play the story missions in sequence with limited ships and continues. Traditional pickups power up your ship, while a chain-coin scoring system supports leaderboard competition.
• Survival: Fight through endless, procedurally generated levels across 10 mission variations and chase high scores on online leaderboards.
• Boss Rush: Take on all 10 bosses as quickly as possible and post your times on leaderboards. A boss becomes available here after you encounter it in Missions, so you can practice without replaying the mission.

Playable content

The game includes five playable characters: two pilots and three wingmen, along with 10 survival missions and 10 bosses. Story mode has four difficulty tiers, each with its own set of objectives. You can also revisit story scenes and listen to the background music from a menu.