A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Patricia stopped taking part in climbing activities after getting injured at a local tournament. She’s now studying in Iceland and needs money. One day, she finds a shady gig about playtesting an action escape game and finds herself trapped in a fictional spaceship. She must escape using both her wits and her agility.

Starship Breakers: Alpha was originally developed for both Josei Jam 2025 (May-June) and Battle Action Fantasy VN Jam 2025 (June), but it was only submitted to the former as it lacked supernatural elements.

Jose Jam 2025 submission

The plot was written as a prologue to a bigger story that would also feature an action escape game, inspired by puzzle anime Phi Brain, but it can be enjoyed as a standalone story.

  • Download and run the executable matching your platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)

  • Currently, only mouse is fully supported, with additional keyboard/gamepad bindings for some actions

    • Mouse is required to navigate in some menus
    • Gamepad bindings are shown at the bottom in the menus when gamepad input is detected
  • Visual Novel phase controls:

    • Advance dialogue: mouse primary button click, Space or Enter
    • Toggle auto-advance mode: click Auto or press A
    • Skip: click Skip or hold Ctrl/PageDown (set Skip mode to Everything or Read only in Settings > Text)
    • Rollback: mouse wheel up or PageUp
    • Pause menu: mouse secondary button click or Escape
  • Puzzle phase controls:

    • Click on an object to interact with it. It will automatically do the correct contextual action (look, take, use, place item)
    • Pause menu: mouse secondary button click or Escape

The latest version is still incomplete, but gives an overview of the game’s experience:

  • 7 scenes (out of 13)
  • 1 puzzle
  • 20 minutes of play
  • 3 finished background, 2 unfinished backgrounds
  • 2 BGM

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Changelog

v0.4 - 2025-06-29 - Jam release

  • First prototype release with working puzzle
  • First 7 scenes
  • Puzzle 1
  • 3 finished background, 2 unfinished backgrounds
  • 2 BGM

Playtesters

  • Rythen

Fonts

Sprites

Ambient

SFX

Game engine

  • Unity 6000.0.48f1
  • Naninovel v1.20

Writing

Art

  • Adobe Photoshop

Audio

  • Cubase
  • Logic Pro

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Starship Breakers Alpha v0.4.0 - Windows 64.7z 86 MB
Version 0.4.0 1 day ago
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Starship Breakers Alpha v0.4.0 - MacOS.7z 26 MB
Version 0.4.0 1 day ago
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Starship Breakers Alpha v0.4.0 - Linux 64.7z 19 MB
Version 0.4.0 1 day ago

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