Launchyard: Spaceship Builder

Build a spaceship block by block, launch it off the planet and blast your way through 100 sectors of a machine blockade. Die, keep everything you collected, upgrade, and fly further next time.

Launchyard is a space shooter with a shipyard at its heart. Every run starts on the ground. Every run makes your ship stronger.

DESIGN YOUR SHIP
• Place guns, turrets, shields, hull plates, reactors and thrusters on a grid frame
• Rotate cannons to fire forward, sideways or in a spread
• Every weapon runs on energy, so the cores you fit decide how hard you can hit
• Ten frames to unlock, from the tiny Scout to the giant Carrier
• 32 part types: railguns, auto-lasers, homing rockets, mine layers, drone bays, EMP cannons, tractor beams, shield domes, self-repairing hull, neutronium plating and more
• Paint your hull and pick your launch pad

BLAST THROUGH 100 SECTORS, THEN KEEP GOING
• Fight drones, rammers, raiders and snipers that fly like real ships
• Breeders that split in two, wasp swarms, cloaked shades and heavy bastions
• Shoot meteors that shatter into real chunks
• Manual specials with a long cooldown: Nova Pulse, Missile Barrage and Ion Lance
• Pale enemies, invisible stalkers and darkness in the later sectors
• Past sector 100 the sectors never end, and every one is tougher than the last

20 STORY BOSSES AND 80 NAMED MINI-BOSSES
• A big boss every 5 sectors, each with its own trick: shield nodes, armour made of meteors, twin bosses, a 16-segment space serpent, and a mirror that copies your own ship
• A named mini-boss in every other sector, from Gary, Regional Drone Supervisor to Count Shrapnula
• No skipping: the arena locks until the boss falls
• Every enemy and boss you meet goes into your codex

A STORY WITH ATTITUDE
For 300 years a machine blockade has kept every ship on the ground. Your foreman Kestrel talks you through every launch over the radio, the bosses talk back, and an archivist decodes their secrets into your logbook.

UPGRADE EVERYTHING
• Every part levels up on its own, all the way to tier 15
• New parts and frames unlock as you fly further, all the way to sector 40
• Find parts with random tiers out in space, or open a free supply drop every few hours
• Gold, alloy, circuits and plasma are banked every run, even when you die
• Start from any sector you have already reached

FEATURES
• Space shooter, ship builder and roguelite upgrade loop in one
• Quick runs, perfect for short sessions
• Plays offline (ads need a connection)
• One-handed touch controls: drag anywhere to steer
• Background music, with an on/off switch in the pause menu
• Optional ads for bonuses: revive, double your haul or open a supply drop
• Optional one-time purchases: remove ads, a starter pack, the paint shop and the Cube frame

Launch, break the blockade, and find out what it was really keeping out.

Recent changes:

New: a Handling readout in the shipyard shows how your ship steers, and Kestrel helps new pilots fit a second thruster. New About page with links, credits and a safer progress reset.
Balance: Capacitor Banks store more and speed up energy recharge. Gyro Stabilisers add much more turning, and thrust alone turns a little less.
Changes: Double the haul appears once you've beaten the first boss. The fixed joystick now sits in the bottom-left corner.