FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL

A top-down pixel art action shooter with a noir story. Cut the power and take down the crew selling blackouts in a harbour city.

Saltmarrow has been under rolling blackouts for nine nights, and everyone blames the storm. Wren Okafor, a night-shift lineworker who knows every breaker in the city, finds out the dark is being sold. A crew called the Sootline cuts the power to a block so their clients can work unseen.

Wren turns their trick against them. She cuts the lights and comes in fast.

FIGHT IN THE DARK
Lit rooms favour the crew's eyes. Dark rooms favour yours. Throw a breaker and the room drops into shadow, and you fight by the glow of flashlights, neon and muzzle flashes. But every shot you fire lights you up, and the crew's technicians will walk to a dead panel and switch it back on unless you reach them first.

• Cut breakers to plunge rooms into darkness
• Surge a lamp, sign or screen to blind the crew standing in its light
• Kick doors in, shatter glass, throw empty guns
• Read the room by the crew's flashlights, lanterns and night-vision glow

TWIN-STICK SHOOTING, NO RELOADS
Movement is instant and most things go down in one or two hits, Wren included. Guns have no reloads: when one runs dry, throw it and grab another. Every threat is telegraphed, and a retry takes under a second.

17 MISSIONS AND 4 BOSS FIGHTS
A single-player campaign in a prologue and four acts, across the city: cold stores and fish markets on the docks, a neon strip with a karaoke bar and a nightclub, the hill where the lights never go out, and the switchyard that powers it all. The story is told in short briefings between missions and one-line radio calls that never pause the action.

Each boss fight has a trick to read and break: a dock boss who charges behind a steel shield, a club owner who strobes the room on his own beat, a security chief whose thermal visor sees in the dark, and the one man who knows the grid better than Wren does.

PLAY IT YOUR WAY
• Three stars per mission: clear it, beat the par time, and complete its challenge
• 12 Tricks, perks that change how you play, most of them unlocked with stars: silent footsteps, instant breakers, a blackout that cancels the hit that would have downed Wren
• Choose a starting sidearm: the quiet Nail Gun or the Flare Pistol, whose flares become lights of their own
• Relaxed mode, adjustable aim assist and a left-handed layout
• Twin-stick touch controls made for phones and tablets, plus keyboard, mouse and gamepad support
• Plays offline: no wifi or account needed

Rain on the docks, lightning over the harbour, and an original soundtrack that follows the city from the Wharf to the switchyard.

Recent changes:
Version 0.2.1
• The whole story script is rewritten: every briefing, debrief and radio call now says plainly who is who and what is going on
• Characters are introduced by name and job the first time they appear
• Lineworker jargon is cut or explained in plain words
• Clearer tutorial, mission and Trick cards (same rules, same numbers). The Breacher Trick is now called Big Boot
• Sound loading is more reliable