Razerwire:Nanowars

Razerwire:Nanowars

Hammer & Ravens · 2018 · Arena Shooter, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Roguelite, Shooter

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About Razerwire:Nanowars

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RW:NW™ is a personal revisitation of the 80s' arcades where I spent most of my pocket money as a kid. It's also my very first solo project after six years of working on much larger team projects.
After all that work on slow pachyderms, I wanted to take a stab at something smaller, faster to make, and granting a more immediate fun.
So, I dusted a gameplay idea I hid in a drawer a couple of years back, I set it up as a 30 minutes-a-day project and started working on it during lunch breaks. When the prototype was welcomed quite enthusiastically by the first testers, I decided to make it real.

Razerwire:Nanowars™ is as a simple little game, quite replayable and with a little nice set of upgrades, achievements and highscores to beat to satisfy the progression geek in all of us.

It is suggested to play with a mouse, but now since version 1.07, Razerwire integrates full controller support as well

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If you get to have half the fun playing it as I had making it, I think you'll cherish it!

Cheers,
Emiliano, @DokHgn

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  • Use the mouse to maneuver a monomolecular filament (the RazerWire) to protect your generators and kill the nanobugs assaulting them.
  • Survive endless waves of attackers with increasing difficulty.
  • Avoid hits on the Generators.
  • Use the RazerWire to destroy your enemies.
  • Use left and right mouse click to activate some powerups (like the Antimatter Blaster and the PowerWave).

Enjoy a rogue-like progress: Survive as many waves as possible, die, use earned points to unlock upgrades and powerups, and then jump back in the fight (there are checkpoints every 20 waves, no worries!)

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  • Multiple enemy types with several variants each :
  • 7 Movement types (including Teleport, Accelerating Zig zags and Escaping from the Wire)
  • 4 Shooting modes including homing missiles, scrambling bullets and all-around shooting
  • 2 Armor types
  • Multiple unlockable upgrades for the Wire including Shields, Armor, Health and Recovery Times
  • Up to 7 powerups including Anabolishields, Nanoblades and Chrono Molasses
  • Procedural difficulty increase in the endless waves progression
  • If you like what you see, feel free to follow me (@DokHgn) and RWNW (@RzW_NW) on Twitter! Support is the best fuel for productivity ;)


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In a future far, far away, humanity has colonized most of the galaxy. However, our world is being exterminated by an unseen enemy.

When scientists figured out that the killers are nano-sized, virus-like aliens, Dr.Illerotsap modifies a medical tool, a monomolecular filament used for nano-scale medical operations, and turns it into a formidable weapon against the enemy.

The RazeWire was born.

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My thanks go first and foremost to my family and to Jenny, for supporting my mad attempts at making a living with a job that I love.

To Olaf for sharing my office throughout the whole development, drooling over my flip flops and covering the floor with hair and love.

To my friend Ottavio from Mash Machine for having made the super cool music for the game.

To Yannis for all the help with the copies and marketing (I am even worse at that than at art otherwise ;) ).

To Juhani Junkala for his amazing 8-bit VFX libraries https://juhanijunkala.com/

To Siim and Mikk for the moral support throughout the project.

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jan 6, 2026
It's a decent Atari-style game that is fun but requires no real skill to complete. If you die you can just pick up from the previous wave or nearby it, meaning you just have to keep playing to unlock all the upgrades and win. Some of the achievements are irritating to unlock but I managed to get all of them in a few hours.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Jun 26, 2024
The game itself has one gimmick, little variety, mediocre visuals, and not much of a challenge, but contains a surprising amount of bugs. For example, scrambling missiles are supposed to invert your controls, but (at least with mouse controls) getting hit by them also flips your position around the center of the screen, which can and will teleport you into other hazards. Another example is that if you try to charge up the force wave (by holding down a button) you'll also fire an antimatter bullet (normally fired by pressing the same button), which is a complete waste given that the force wave will wipe all enemies on screen: and no, you can't get around the issue with rebinds. Cheap, but not worth your time.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 12, 2026
An interesting and cheap game to kill some time. The soundtrack is nice. The gameplay is quite repetitive. However, there is a checkpoint system in place to minimize that.
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 22, 2025
Fun to pass the time, although repetitive. The 500 waves achievement is tough but I had a great time. Can recommend! Time to 100% legitimately: ~5 hours or less.
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Recommended Mar 30, 2026
Solid little game for killing time. Simple, satisfying at first, but gets repetitive pretty fast. [h1] Good for short sessions, nothing special. 6/10 [/h1]
Not recommended Feb 19, 2025
I bought this game because I like retro games and it was on sale for half a buck. It was not fun, but for achievement hunters, you can get an easy 100% achieves if you enter a code found in the guides section. For windows users this is Lshift + RCTRL + RALT + K.

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