Galaxy Highways is a sci-fi space shooter where you’re doing pirate raids into star systems inhabited by aliens. You destroy enemy ships, space stations, mother ships or bosses and complete all missions as soon as possible before enemy defense system destroys you with its powerful waves of attacks.
## About This Game
GALAXY HIGHWAYS is a 2D twin-stick retro looking pixel art action shooter in
space where you are doing pirate raids into other star systems inhabited by
alien civilizations where you destroy enemy ships, space stations, defensive
positions, mother ships or bosses and try to complete all missions as soon as
possible before enemy defense system destroys you with its increasingly
powerful waves of attacks.
The game takes place in the future when after the expansion of our
civilization and the discovery of the so-called jump gates built by an unknown
civilization to quickly move between star systems is our civilization
discovered by aliens. Home planet and civilization itself was almost
completely destroyed and after last failed fight they had to escape and
started hiding in the edge of the galaxy. New colony was built and people now
trying to survive by sabotaging, stealing enemy resources and researching new
technologies to survive. It’s up to you and few others in special squads to
show, that we are still here and we’ll not be forgotten so easily.
## Game features
* Twin-stick retro looking pixel art space shooter
* Optional order in which the player completes missions in the levels
* Optional reward-based missions increasing the difficulty of the level and rewarding a player with achievements
* An enemy defense system that sends increasingly stronger waves of enemies to destroy the player
* Lot of different weapons
* RPG elements such as upgrading weapons and ships
* Intense boss fights
* Visual representation of game progress and achievements by visual improvements of the dock and the large battleship in it
* Catching story
* Killer hard rock/metal style soundtrack with retro synthetisers to support retro and fighting atmosphere.