Nebula Invasion

Nebula Invasion

Nicholas Novella · 2021 · Action, Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade, Retro, 2D

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About Nebula Invasion

Nebula Invasion was designed for those who enjoy the classic type arcade games, a spaceship shooter with great gameplay. Aliens attack many different ways from marching to dive bombing. But you have the tools to fight back with a ship that can power-up with double, triple, rapid fire, or plasma cannon. This newer ship was also installed with a thruster to get close and personal with the raiders. It was designed in 2021 with Unreal Engine, a 2D game with 3D flair. Pixels blow up everywhere with UE4's beautiful, realistic physics. Saucers fly in from nowhere, and the bosses are agile with powerful homing weapons.

How many times have you thought, I like the classic arcade games for their gameplay, but they are really so basic. Red Wolf Studios is working on producing the same type of classics but adding complexity and excitement without making the game more difficult to navigate.

Just cause mayhem. Blow up the top aliens or missiles shot by bosses to release power-ups that will spin down to your ship. You don't always get one and it's totally random. Continue to rid space of those pestilence as you wait for it to drop. Then it happens, your ship transforms into a double-cannon or triple-cannon, letting you kill them even faster. The more you destroy, the faster they move. Stay sharp and outwit them. Your survival will depend on it.

After clearing 3 levels, you will encounter your first boss, the one with the ears. It shoots deadly homing missiles at irregular intervals. If you shoot those missiles, they can provide power-ups as well, but try to go into the fight powered-up already. Otherwise, it could cost you lives, especially at the higher levels. The second boss is more difficult. It fires homing missiles and homing fireballs. Those fireballs don't provide any power-ups, so hit those homing missiles when you can. The third boss has only fireballs, so be sure to go into the fight with at least the Rapid Fire or Plasma Cannon power-up. The Plasma Cannon comes with an electric shield, protecting you from all missiles, bombs, and fireballs.

Gameplay progressively gets harder with each level cleared. Even the bosses increase their rate of attack. Make sure to stay in the middle of empty columns to help guard yourself from getting blown-up from streams of missiles in the higher levels.

there Are Four Power-ups

1. Double Cannon

2. Triple Cannon

3. Rapid Fire

4. Plasma Cannon With Shield

You will fight three different aliens and their corresponding bosses. A large space ship will fly overhead and upon destroying it, 300 points is awarded. After level 5, that ship starts to fight back and drops ticking time bombs. Later a new smaller space ship goes into action and fires tiny homing fireballs. Be careful, you might have to zigzag to avoid that one. Better yet, shoot it down for 1000 points.

The boss pieces are worth 5 points, and when the boss is destroyed, it can offer a prize of 750, 950, or 1250.

Every 10,000 Points You Receive An Extra Life.

You start off in the Blue Nebula, then after defeating the first 3 bosses, you will advance to the Rust Belt Nebula. Defeat it's three bosses and you enter into the Dog Spirit Galaxy. Next is Deep Space, then the Outer Limits. You will notice that outer space never stays the same from level to level. The Nebulas get brighter until a new one is reached.

If your timer drops to zero, all invaders are destroyed and a new level is presented. That helps prevent from raking up points and waiting for the space ships to show up, thus gaming the system and not achieving a score worthy of your true fighting skill.

So please enjoy your space battles. We will be listening to your feedback and possibly incorporate your good ideas into our next update. Together we can make fighting aliens more enjoyable than ever.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 15, 2025
[h3]RANKING:[/h3] [table] [tr] [td] [h3][strike]AVOID | FLAWED[/strike] | [b]MAYBE[/b] | [strike]WORTHWHILE | COMPELLING | UNMISSABLE [/strike] [/h3] [/td] [/tr] [/table] [h3]SYNOPSIS:[/h3] [table] [tr] [th][b]ASSESSMENT:[/b][/th] [/tr] [tr] [td] Nebula Invasion is a well polished, no thrills contemporary remake of the original Space Invaders. A melding of modern visuals and effects, to a simple, classic formula. It captures the mood of the original, especially the way practice builds the muscle memory necessary for progression. A few novel touches are introduced to change up gameplay, such as bosses and exotic munitions. Unfortunately it suffers from repetition of the same x4 levels, just speeded up. There is no soundtrack and the audio for power-ups sounds off-kilter. The lack of dynamic elements results in an unvaried experience. No new derivative mode that builds upon this great classic, is a wasted opportunity. Could have easily got the thumbs down, but [b]MAYBE[/b] of interest to anyone with lower expectations than myself. [/td] [/tr] [/table] [table] [tr] [td][b]STATUS:[/b][/td] [td]Fully released, but lacks content. There is the vaguest reference that the developer may a…
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Recommended Sep 20, 2025
The game feels familiar yet fresh, like Space Invaders with more variety and power-ups. You pilot a ship at the bottom of the screen, dodge alien attacks from above, grab upgrades (double, triple, rapid fire, plasma cannon) and face bosses. The escalating challenge is engaging without being overwhelming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJZHboWDiZk
7 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 6, 2022
The best modern take on space invaders that I've come across in the modern age. Has elements of galaxians in there too. Some really good innovations that make you think "why didn't they think of that in the past" - but it's ruddy hard. Developer gave me a bet to beat 50,000 points in 2 days and if I did I'd get a £25 voucher. I failed. Best space invaders game I've ever played.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 6, 2025
A passable Space Invaders game that hearkens back to the days of homebrew clones, but could really do with a bit more polish that shouldn't be hard to add. For instance, there isn't a lot going on visually; the backgrounds are static and not terribly interesting and the enemies are palate swaps whose most interesting trait is blowing up. If you want a Space Invaders game to pick up and play without any investment this will work in a pinch, but wait for a sale.
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Recommended Jun 26, 2025
I got this game a while ago and played it a bit. Nebula Invasion is a game for highscore hunters and lovers of classic games in the shoot em up genre. Just played another round before writing these lines and even surpassed my former personal record. Nebula Invasion is an good Space Invaders clone with everythings fine on graphics, audio and controls. Sometimes games like these are just perfect for a few minutes in between or for a single run/try in comparison to the other mostly huge and complex games. Space Invaders as well as Galaga will always be some of my special and favorite alltime classics. You can't go wrong with a concept like this, when it's as well executed like in this game. Good job and a good time for players with a tight schedule. I want to thank the dev as well for providing this game as a gift to test it. Good work on this. You really suprised me positively with your version of an timeless classic. Thank you!
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 18, 2023
this ♥♥♥♥ pumps my PC and display card to overheat, IDK how this game requires so high running speed of cpu/gpu

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