Play Space Shooter free in your browser. Slide your ship, blast every wave of alien invaders and dodge their bombs. No install, no sign-up.
Drag anywhere on the screen to steer your ship, or move the mouse — it fires automatically. Destroy every invader and dodge the bombs they drop.
The fixed shooter — a lone ship at the bottom of the screen against a descending grid of aliens — is one of the founding shapes of the video game. The 1978 arcade machine that defined it sparked a worldwide craze and turned the shoot-'em-up into a genre. Decades later that simple, tense format still works because it asks one clear question every second: can you hit them before they reach you?
Space Shooter keeps the classic format intact. A formation of invaders marches left and right across the top of the screen, dropping a row closer every time it touches an edge. You slide your ship along the bottom and it fires automatically — your job is to aim by moving, thin the formation, and weave between the bombs raining down. A mystery UFO drifts across the top now and then for bonus points.
The famous twist is the tempo. The fewer invaders left, the faster the whole formation marches — the last few aliens are a frantic, darting chase. Clear a wave and the next one starts lower and meaner. You have three ships; the run ends when the last one is gone or the invaders reach your line. It is a pure score chase, and it gets its claws in fast.
Slide your finger or move the mouse to steer the ship along the bottom of the screen. It fires upward automatically. Destroy every invader in the wave while dodging the bombs they drop.
No. Your ship fires continuously on its own. The whole game is about positioning — move to aim your shots and to dodge incoming bombs.
The formation marches faster every time you destroy an invader. With only a few left it moves very quickly, which makes finishing a wave the tensest moment.
The UFO that crosses the top of the screen is a bonus target worth a random amount of extra points — well above an ordinary invader. Shoot it before it escapes.
You start with three ships. You lose a ship when a bomb hits you, and the game ends when your last ship is gone — or if the invaders descend all the way to your line.
Yes. Your highest score is stored in your browser and shown each game, so there is always a personal record to chase.
Power-ups. When you destroy an invader, it occasionally drops a capsule. Slide your ship under it to catch it. T (yellow) triples your shots for 8 seconds, R (orange) doubles your fire rate for 8 seconds, S (cyan) gives you a one-hit shield, and B (red) is a screen-clearing mega-bomb that instantly kills every invader and erases every bomb on screen.
When you catch a cyan Shield capsule a ring forms around your ship. The next bomb that would hit you breaks the shield instead of costing you a life. You can only carry one shield at a time — catch another after using it to renew the protection.
Yes. Tap the pause button at the top-right of the playfield, or press P or Escape on desktop. Switching tabs also pauses automatically so a stray notification doesn't end your run.
Destroy invaders in quick succession to build a kill chain. Every four kills raises your score multiplier by one step, up to ×8, and all points you earn are multiplied by it. The chain breaks if you pause for too long between kills or take a bomb hit, so fast, aggressive sweeps score far higher than slow play. Your longest streak of the run is saved as your top streak.