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Life & fun · October 8, 2015

Cryptark

Roguelike 2D shooter set in the future

Cryptark launched on October 8, 2015 with 83 votes, #644 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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What it does

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It

“I might well be tempted to use Cryptark as a case study of how to take a simple, hoary old game conceit, like the shmup, and have it transcend into something richly strategic, by ensuring the player has interesting things to consider at every strata of interaction.” RockPaperShotgun “I Love When A Steam Early Access Game Gets It Right” Kotaku You can use this widget-maker to generate a bit of HTML that can be embedded in your website to easily allow customers to purchase this game onfrom store.steampowered.com

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