7helm

said aloud: sevenhelm

Humanity has escaped Earth. It has not escaped itself.

PLAY

THE GAME

A fast arcade game that runs in your browser. It begins by saying MOVE, and red circles appear. Press PLAY and you are flying: a ship that points where it thrusts, a gun that traverses, a grappling hook that costs no fuel, and waves that come faster than you would like.

• WASD to move, arrows to aim and fire, SHIFT to boost, E for the hook.
• Boost is how you live and how you run dry. Watch the burn.
• Swing around a planet on the hook, reel along a line, drag a ship off course.

Arcade Labs holds the experiments the game is still asking itself: the Fall (twelve ships, a front that closes, last one flying wins), the siege (tower defence across seven stations, Luna out to Titan), cargo runs and escorts. Open it from the front door. Expect them to change.

Keyboard on a computer, touch on a phone. No download, no sign-up, no ads.

THE WORLD

Humanity did not settle space as one civilisation. It arrived as thousands of competing systems: sovereign habitats, company stations, mining claims, colonies built out of salvage, and pirates working the gaps between all of it. Nobody agrees on who owns what, and Earth law gets weaker with every kilometre.

What you hold out there is only yours while it still answers to you.

STATUS

Early and playable. Single player today: the Fall first, a new siege campaign, and three shorter games on the same ship. A daily shared run, a leaderboard and ghosts of other pilots come next, and shared rooms after that.