Story-driven roguelite shooter

MAVERICK SKIES

Last light of the free skies

You fly one ship. Shred the swarm. Your guns fire on their own: you dodge, level up and stack weapons until hundreds of enemies melt off the screen. Then pick a side, or none, and take on the bosses who want you dead.

macOS · Windows · Linux · iPhone · Android

Trailers

Reveal trailer 1:59 · in-engine footage
Transcript

On screen: A story-driven roguelite shooter

The Ninth Voice, Null Choir: We heard the Maverick die. We hear the little hull you crawled into. Fly, Mara Voss. We are patient.

Hesper: Mara Voss, I owe you one tow. Collecting it now.

On screen: You fly one ship

Hesper: That was the tow, Voss. There isn't another. Die out there and you stay dead.

On screen: Shred the swarm. Every level, a new power: burn, poison, shock, freeze.

On screen: Defend stations · raid shipyards · escort convoys

On screen: Choose your path · 150 worlds · 10 endings

Train-boss Keln Ore, Free Salvagers: Ten cars, welded shut and branded.

Jun Reyes, the Maverick: Crate's open. That's not ore.

On screen: The crates are people. House Ore bills them as tonnage.

Voice in the crate: Is it Tithe Vault? Are we there?

On screen: Helix Directorate · close the book

Aurel Hallan, Helix Directorate: The Directorate does not repeat itself. Clear the lane.

Aurel Hallan: Ride them down. File what remains.

On screen: Free Salvagers · collect the share

Ysolde Varr, Free Salvagers: Every hook in the yard, on me. Call the share.

On screen: Null Choir · carry the hymn

The Ninth Voice: Three houses offered you a pin. The Choir offers you silence.

Mara Voss, the Maverick: I do not leave people. I also do not wear a master's pin.

On screen: Co-op · 2 players

Mara Voss: Then we go out unowned.

On screen: Nobody owns the Maverick

On screen: Every build changes how you play: control, fortress, army, single target.

On screen: 25 ships · 38 weapons · 46 modules · 57 boss fights

On screen: Hidden endings · ship paints · trails

On screen: Built for speedrunners · splits · seeds · LiveSplit

Aurel Hallan: Is that your fleet, Captain? One ship and a handful of strays, against the whole Directorate.

Mara Voss: You brought the whole book, Prefect. I came to burn the last page.

On screen: Maverick Skies: last light of the free skies. Coming to Steam and the Epic Games Store. Windows, macOS, Linux.

They blew up your ship. Not your name.

The Maverick was the last ship that answered to no one. Then the Null Choir came singing, and tore its shields apart. Captain Mara Voss blew the core herself rather than hand it over: Then we go out unowned.

She survived. Now she has a scrapyard fighter, one last revive, and a galaxy where every dock belongs to someone who wants her on a leash. Time to make some noise.

The Ninth Voice, a Choir Leviathan, mid attack telegraph

The skies have owners. You don't, yet.

Start with one gun. Every level-up is a new power: burn, poison, shock, freeze. Max a weapon and forge its evolution, fuse two into one, bond two evolutions into a legendary, and watch a tiny fighter turn into a storm that clears the whole screen.

Pick a side. Or none.

Five factions, five stories, and every one of them wants you on its leash. Join one, betray another, or burn them all.

Bosses with a grudge

Every fleet has a face. Beat a commander and they don't stay beaten: they come back angrier, with a bigger army.

Features

Your choices matter

150 worlds, and every one has an owner. You talk before you fight, every dock is voiced, and they remember what you promised. Lie at your own risk.

Fight whole armies

A Field Host fights like a real army: a front line, archers behind it and riders on the flanks. Every order is telegraphed. Read it, dodge it, then break it.

Die, upgrade, go again

Lose a run, keep your gear. Scrap, blueprints and modules carry over, your escort wing flies with you, and every faction you win over opens a new story.

Learn it. Plan it. Hunt it. Race it. Stream it.

Flight school

Dash, Time Stop hops, perfect dodges, drift boosts. Every move in the game, with its real numbers and keys.

Learn to fly ›

Build planner

Plan your ship, captain, weapons and evolutions, then share the code on Discord or paste it into the hangar: the cards you planned light up in your run.

Plan a build ›

209 achievements · 125 classified

Achievements

From your first sortie to a charter with every faction. The classified ones stay secret until you earn them.

See them all ›

Built for speedrunners

Any%, All Bosses and faction categories, seeds, splits and golds, LiveSplit auto-split and signed run files.

Speedrun mode ›

Made for streamers

Chat votes on your cards, your route and the boss, sends help or trouble, and flies as named elites and wingmen. Twitch, YouTube and Kick, an OBS overlay, and you decide how much chat gets to do.

For streamers ›

Screenshots

Latest news

Maverick Skies on a phone, in landscape. The left thumb's stick steers through a swarm of drones, DASH and the ability buttons sit under the right thumb with FOCUS, DRIFT, BOOST and USE beside them, and the hull and shield bars sit at the top right

Devlog ·

Maverick Skies is coming to iPhone and Android

The swarm fits in your pocket. Maverick Skies is coming to iPhone and Android, on the App Store and Google Play, with touch controls made for two thumbs and online co-op and versus with your friends.

Read the full post ›

Try it free

The free demo is the first three sectors of the campaign: the opening battle, your first rival, and all 20 hidden endings, if you can find them. Your hangar keeps its progress.

macOS · Windows · Linux

Be there at launch

Want to play before everyone else? Playtest sign-ups go to the Discord first. Come for the devlog, stay to pick your faction, report bugs and tell us what to build next.

No mail app? Write to maverickskies@outlook.com with "Notify me" in the subject.

Store pages are coming soon. Send one email and you'll get one back the day the demo or the store page goes live. No newsletter, no spam.

Questions

What kind of game is it?

Think Vampire Survivors in space, with a story. Your ship fires on its own while you fly, dodge and pick upgrades. Between fights you dock, talk and choose sides, and the bosses you beat come back stronger.

Which platforms?

macOS, Windows and Linux on Steam and the Epic Games Store, and iPhone and Android on the App Store and Google Play. The free demo is for macOS, Windows and Linux.

Will it run on my computer?

The demo aims for a steady 60 fps. It has been measured on Apple silicon; the Windows and Linux figures are estimates until more hardware is tested.

macOSWindowsLinux
Minimum1080p, LowmacOS 12
Apple M1
8 GB memory
Windows 10, 64-bit
Intel i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 2600
GTX 1060 6 GB or RX 580
8 GB memory
Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 (Vulkan)
Intel i5-8400 or Ryzen 5 2600
GTX 1060 6 GB or RX 580
8 GB memory
Recommended1440p, HighApple M1 Pro or M2 Pro, or better
16 GB memory
Intel i5-11400 or Ryzen 5 5600
RTX 2060 or RX 6600
16 GB memory
Intel i5-11400 or Ryzen 5 5600
RTX 2060 or RX 6600
16 GB memory

All three: 2 GB of free disk space, an SSD recommended.

When does it come out, and what does it cost?

The release date and price aren't announced yet. The demo is free.

What's in the demo?

The first three sectors of the campaign, from the opening battle to your first rival, plus all 20 hidden endings. Progress in the hangar carries over.

Can I play with a controller?

Yes. The game has full controller support, and every key can be remapped.

Can I play with a friend?

Yes. Two pilots in co-op, on one screen or online. Or settle it in versus: 1v1 duels and 2v2 team fights inside a shrinking ring, with ranked tiers from Cadet to Maverick.

What accessibility options are there?

Colour-vision and reduced-motion options, remappable controls, and interface scaling up to 120%.

Who makes it?

Hugo Silva, an independent developer. Press can find everything on the press page.