Starlight Inception

Starlight Inception is a space combat game with exploration and a story set one hundred years from tomorrow, during World War IV. You play as a young space fighter pilot assigned to the United Star Force carrier U.S.F. Midway (SCVN-41), fighting the Non-Aligned Nations’ marauders to defend Earth and its colonies and reclaim the Star System. You deploy to battle hotspots across the inner and outer planets, fighting in space and on planets and moons.

The campaign

In the single-player campaign, you launch from your mothership to attack enemy interests, defend civilians and retake strategic bases throughout the Star System. You can also fly patrol missions to protect your mothership, manage defensive turrets and fight enemy ships in a 3D tower defense minigame.

Ships and equipment

You can choose from over 30 spacefighters, bombers and transports, including the SF-42 Lightning, SF-21 Palomino and SF-53 Blackbird. Configure your craft with weapons such as Copperhead and Rattler missiles, and equipment including stealth coalescers and defensive shields.

The Star System

Fly from space through a planet’s atmosphere to its surface. The settings include the methane lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan, Sigma Seven Space Station and Grissom Base on Mars, the Proteus Shipyard in Neptune’s shadow, and Venus’s red-hot atmosphere. The game also features interplanetary exploration.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer dogfights take place across multiple maps and three modes: Deathmatch, capture the ball and football mode. Chat and matchmaking are integrated with Steam.

Explore the Midway

In first person, you can freely roam the carrier Midway, including its navigation bridge, observation deck, engineering spaces and other decks.