Space Codex

Space Codex

takk · 2016 · Casual, Retro, Shoot 'Em Up, Bullet Hell, Arcade

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Very Positive86% · 233 📉 Recent reviews down 74%
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About Space Codex

✦ AI summary

Blast through endless waves of enemy spaceships in this retro arcade bullet hell where survival is the only goal. Grab scattered power-ups and navigate increasingly brutal enemy patterns to rack up your best survival time.

Space Codex is a casual retro arcade minimal awesome top-down shooter featuring waves of enemy spaceships with different attacks in what is, literally, a bullet hell. To beat them, you will have power-up options available through the map. The game only gets harder. How long can you stay alive?

Features:

- Multiple and unique power-ups
- Beautiful retro, pixelated graphics
- Unique chiptune soundtrack
- Multiple enemies with different behaviors

Music by:

Visager
sawsquarenoise
TeknoAXE

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Aug 22, 2025
Space Codex is just the game for those who enjoy the old-school top-down shooter and bullet hell arcade games. The game comes with instructions, in a 3 spaceships to choose from, and a "dark mode" before you jump right into the game play. The game play is pretty simplistic, and low effects so there wasn't any lag or buggy encounters. You move around quite smoothly and turning steadily but are limited by the squared off area within the red lines. The enemy ships and bullets are all coming at you, but in a somewhat slow speed speed enough for you to react. The game provides a nice, catch retro BGM too. The achievements are pretty easy, as long as you aren't killing them too fast; one way to maintain your multi-score is to not kill the ships too quickly, so it can build up the score. All in all, Space Codex was a fun quick play for me, and is worth the $1 USD price.
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Recommended Apr 7, 2026
Typed hello to mammals, they replied with binary burp. My cat is now compiler, I submit pull request into black hole. Merge conflict looks pretty.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 3, 2026
Would give it a neutral rating if I could. It's just an unremarkable Asteroids clone with an easy 100% achievements in under 2 hours.
Not recommended Jan 2, 2026
i dont really like it
Recommended Oct 16, 2025
I recommend a simple fun game
Not recommended Aug 30, 2025
BORING!

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