Hypergate

Hypergate is a space combat game with a 2-hour single-player campaign and an Instant Action mode for creating custom battle scenarios. You fly one of three fighters, take on enemy forces from two factions and upgrade your ship. Instant Action supports solo play or LAN battles with friends.

Campaign and battles

The campaign begins with a brief, simple tutorial mission, then introduces additional mechanics over its first few missions. Enemies include fighters, turrets of various sizes, large cruisers and reinforcement gates. The largest battles can feature dozens of cruisers and hundreds of fighters.

Instant Action lets you build your own battle scenarios. You can start a mission in as little as three mouse clicks and earn points by scoring kills against enemies. Hypergate has no grinding, resource balancing or asteroid mining.

Ships and upgrades

The game has 14 space-based battle locations and three fighters to fly. You can equip 24 ship upgrades, with six in each of four categories: shields, guns, missiles and coolant. Six other enhancements can also be upgraded.

Flight and views

You can fly from a first-person or third-person view, using auto-leveling or manually controlling pitch, roll and yaw. The flight model is non-Newtonian. Controls can be customized, and the game supports controllers, keyboards and mice.