Schar: Blue Shield Alliance

SCHAR: Blue Shield Alliance is a space action game with strategy elements, set after humanity has traveled across three star systems and colonized multiple planets. You fight the CoNs, an alien force attacking human colonies, and work to protect those colonies with Blue-Energy shield generators.

The CoN invasion

Humanity used technology based on dark matter to explore and colonize new worlds, searching for life. After hundreds of years without finding anyone, the colonies came under attack from the Constituents of Nothing, or CoNs. The aliens also harness dark matter, and human weapons proved ineffective against them.

Pieces of destroyed alien technology helped humanity create an anti-dark-matter particle called Blue-Energy, named for its glow. It can stop the CoNs, and shield generators powered by it protect human colonies from the invasion.

Ships and salvage

You take on missions using one of four ship classes, each with unique abilities designed to encourage teamwork. The ships include roles familiar to MMO players, such as healer and tank, and can be upgraded. A salvage system shapes level objectives, provides upgrades between levels and determines your score.

Missions and co-op

The game supports co-op for up to four players. It includes 36 story missions and 10 survival missions, along with nine upgrades.