Hyper Gladiator

Cleave a path through orbital gladiator arenas in this ship-based spectacle fighters. The Contempter emperor might smile upon you if you put up a good show.

• Fight hordes of bio engineered battle organisms in crunchy, zero-g melee.
• Combine various attacks and moves into massive combo chains.
• Use harpoons to impale targets at a distance or to pull them into melee range.
• Manage your ranged ammo by retrieving your harpoons and dislodging them from skewered enemies.
• Throw your opponents into walls, hazards or other enemies to deal extra damage.
• Discover secret bonus moves.

Made in 48h for Global Game Jam 2024.

How to play:

Acellerate/Break: w / s
Melee: LMouse
Harpoon: RMouse

• Hold RMouse to grab close enemies on hit.
• Release RMouse while aiming away to throw grabbed enemies.
• Mix various attacks to gain combo multiplier.
• Keep dealing damage to keep your combo up.
• Grabbed enemies can be hit with melee while moving to retain combo.
• Ranged attacks can allow you to keep your combo while moving into melee range.
• Your melee attack can deflect projectiles and even parry enemy melee strikes if you time it right.
• Your hp is displayed in the top left. You can not regain hp, so don't get hit too much if you want to reach the end.

Music by Rose Azerty. Palette by Clément.

Better developed sparkly games from the same universe: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/32366/Hyperspace_Anthology/