Underrun

About

Underrun is Dominic Szablewski's js13kGames 2018 winner: a glowing, low-res twin-stick shooter set in a space station where the lights have gone out and the spiders have come in. Move with WASD, aim with the mouse, and restore the reactors while the soundtrack thumps and everything that skitters wants you dead. The whole game — engine, art, dark-meat-beat music — fits in 13KB, and it feels bigger than plenty of commercial shooters. Short, tense, and endlessly restartable.

Controls

WASD to move, mouse to aim and shoot.

Tips

• Keep moving — spiders swarm anything that stands still.
• Clear corners before walking past them; ambushes are the main killer.
• Sound on. Half the tension (and the warnings) live in the audio.