Space Pirates

Bolt your ship together cube by cube, then fly out and take other pilots' stuff.

WASD to fly · mouse to aim · click or Space to fire
Esc or P to pause
Touch: drag to fly, hold FIRE to shoot

Settings

Touch controls

Fire button

Fire while your thumb is on it.

Fire button side

The hull readout takes the other corner.

Hangar

Hold

Space Pirates

Space Pirates is a top-down space shooter where your ship is built from cubes. Fight waves of raiders, fly through their wrecks to loot scrap and parts, then refit your ship in the hangar.

How to play

Every cube on your ship has its own hit points. Guns fire straight out from where they sit, engines push, shields are tough, and utility cubes pull loot in. Lose a cube and anything held on by it breaks off too.

Wrecks leave scrap behind; fly through it to collect it. Now and then a wreck drops a whole part, from common up to epic.

Once a wave is cleared, you get up to thirty seconds to gather the loot. Then the run is saved, and you choose Continue for the next wave, Hangar to refit, or End run. Every tenth wave brings a boss, which drops a ring of bonus parts when beaten.

Controls

Mouse / touch: with a mouse, your ship faces the pointer, and clicking fires. On touch, drag anywhere to fly, and hold the FIRE button to shoot. Without a mouse, the ship faces the way it flies.
Keyboard: W A S D or the arrow keys fly. Space fires. Esc or P pauses. Leaving the tab pauses too.

The hangar

Ship: pick a part from your hold, then a square touching the ship. Parts are never lost.
Store: spend banked scrap on new parts.
Upgrades: six branches, covering weapons, hull, engines, salvage, weapon mods and alien tech.
Map: choose where your next run starts.

Damage stays with your ship between waves. Use Repair all in the hangar to fix it for scrap.

The map

Space is a grid of 7 by 7 sectors, with home at D4 in the centre. Each ring out is tougher and pays better. You can unlock any sector next to one you already have. The first ring costs 120 scrap, the second 350, and the outer ring 700 scrap and 15 xenite. Xenite drops only in the two outer rings.

Scoring

Your score is the scrap you loot in one run. It all goes into your bank too. The leaderboard ranks each player's best single run.

Tips

Keep your cockpit buried behind other cubes. Losing it ends the run.
Use the thirty-second break to sweep up every piece of loot.
Tap a gun in the hangar to change how it fires, once you've unlocked Scatter, Lance or Seeker.
Repair before a boss wave. Damage carries over from wave to wave.

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