Space Swift: The Sky Defender

Polgram: Retro Pixel

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About this game

In this side-scrolling shoot'em up the player becomes a defender of the planet. The spaceship flies over surface of the planet and has to shoot down all of the alien invaders. Galaxy needs you! Get your spacecraft fighter and get ready for the battle!

Space Swift 2 consists of classing looking pixel art graphics and white noise sound effects.

There are endless survival levels with leaderboard you would love!

Ratings and reviews

If you loved Defender and Stargate in the early 1980s, you might like Space Swift. The gameplay is simplified due to the touch screen controls, but one of the biggest problems with Defender/Stargate was overly complicated controls. Flying and shooting with the touchscreen is interesting and takes some getting used to. Press and hold with the side you want to move away from, and tap the other side of the screen with your thumb to shoot. Now try to see through your thumbs. Fun times! Gameplay and graphics are different enough from Defender to avoid lawsuits from Bally/Williams, or whoever owns the IP to Defender, probably, but the game has an authentic vibe that makes it feel like a worthy sequel to the classics. Your ship has headlights, an interesting innovation, but it seems to have little impact on gameplay, and there are meteor showers which are fun, but there doesn't seem to be a "save the humans" mechanic in this game, which was what Defender was all about. I would like to see this game add AT-AT style walkers at some point, as in the Atari 2600 game The Empire Strikes Back.

Very nice fast paced game! Since there is not much to do other than trying to beat your score, it can be a nice time waster. More stuff to engage players might be a nice thing to add later on. Although I started to get used to them pretty quickly, controls seemed a little weird. You can't shoot without moving, which resulted in me smashing myself to the enemies most of the time. Seems like a hard to master system for me.

This is not an exact clone of the game you think it is a clone of; from what I can tell in my relatively short play time, there are no humanoids to save and there are also other gameplay features such as the meteor showers. The game runs smoothly on my 1st generation Moto G and the controls are intuitive though they take a while to get used to (no dodgy software buttons! :) ). One problem this game has though is that for some reason you have to connect to the internet or you cannot start.

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