About the Game
Vortica is a 2D twin-stick shooter roguelite where you brave hostile territories, rescue stranded civilians, and neutralize deadly alien threats across the solar system. Scavenge for resources, craft weapons and items and carefully select your loadouts to overcome each unique mission.
Endless hordes of different enemies, each requiring different strategies to overcome stands in your way. Dispose of wave after wave using everything from rusty automatic rifles to high powered plasma guns, or deploy automated sentry turrets to assist you.
Massive bosses are also waiting for you across the solar system, you’ll need to combine cunning and force to overcome them. As soon as your mission is completed, you need to haul ass. Get in your Vortal before it’s too late!
Find utility items like jumping boots, traps, and improvised explosives, or craft them yourself in your homebase. With over 100 items available, you can repel enemies, grow resources or light your way through dark powerless stations. There's a tool for everything!
Unlock increasingly advanced gear and expand your carrying capacity as you progress. Before long, the creatures that looked unbeatable will be the ones fighting for their lives. Finding new characters also unlocks more options in your home base, such as better crafting or new objectives.
Choose your own path and explore the solar system using Vortal technology to transport to a variety of locations. Rescue stranded civilians, eliminate deadly alien threats, and collect resources in roguelike raids.
Every run is different, some stations are plunged into darkness by power failures, some are saturated with radiation, and some force you to fight through facilities without gravity.
OTHER FEATURES
Play solo or team up with a friend for Co-op! (Gamepad required)
Multiple game modes: Adventure, Survival and Custom modes
A cute robot vacuum buddy in your home base, and a cat!
Team up for co-op runs, share strategies and setups, get the latest news, patch notes and updates on our Discord, look to the right for the invite link!
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
v1.0.7 Patch Notes:
New Content:
New Randomizer Game Mode
A new game mode that let's you play Adventure with randomized items, enemies and more!
New Impossible Game Mode
A super punishing game mode for all you crazy people out there.
New Item - Melee Range Chip - Increases Melee Range by 40%.
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Balance and Improvements:
Monolith's health and spawn rate have been slightly reduced
Centipede boss now only spawns new enemies when it's health reaches certain intervals
Info Panel text added for Warp Effect, Screen Shake, and Slowdown settings
Full HDR support
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug causing some video recording software to show a black screen when capturing Vortica
Fixed a bug where lighting could get messed up when playing on Borderless mode with a screen resolution higher than 1920x1080
Fixed a bug where borderless mode wasn't working properly
Fixed a bug with screen resolution on some devices
Fixed a bug with UI scrolling when using Large UI
Fixed a crash that could happen when extracting from radiated missions
Fixed a crash related to music files
Fixed a crash related to navigating the Game Menu when playing in co-op
Fixed a crash related to the throwing cursor
Fixed a crash related to UI elements when playing in co-op
Fixed a crash related to NanoFlux pickups
Fixed a crash related to the camera
Fixed a crash related to setting keybindings
Hello folks!
Here comes a chonky patch, filled with bugfixes, tweaks and even some new content! Stay tuned for more news and tell all your friends to play Vortica this weekend :)
v1.0.5 Patch notes:
New Content:
I know updates with only bug fixes and balance changes are kind of dull, so I thought I'd throw in some new goodies for everybody. These should help for people that just want a little bit more Loadout Points!
💔 Added Health AntiChip item: A passive item that gives you 1 LP at the cost of -1 maximum health.
🐌 Added Move Speed AntiChip item: A passive item that gives you 1 LP at the cost of -10% move speed.
🐞 Bug fixes:
Fixed a crash that could happen when loading a mission. Especially during late game.
Fixed a crash that could happen when rebinding keys.
Fixed a crash that could happen while fighting one of the bosses.
Fixed a crash related to NanoFlux pickups
Fixed a bug where you could open the Auto Mapper from your loadout page.
Fixed a graphical bug related to ramming yourself into a wall while floating with Jet Shoes
Fixed a bug where the planet unlock tutorial wouldn't get completed properly
Fixed a bug where the Interact button wasn't appearing on Grow Beds
Fixed a bug where your main objective wouldn't update after unlocking a planet
Fixed a bug where numerical keys were appearing as "D1", "D2", etc.. in the Key rebinding menu
Fixed a bug where planet Danger Levels would sometimes appear with decimals
Fixed a bug where you could lose Grow Beds after printing a new Grow Bed from the Printer (This will also restore any lost Grow Beds to existing saves)
Fixed a bug where Fido's barking sound effect wasn't adjusting volume based on relative position
Fixed a bug related to the final boss's projectile attacks
Fixed a bug where the Hub World in Roguelike mode wasn't showing the correct planet in the background
Fixed a bug where the Mission Failure tip was appearing every time you die, instead of just the first time
Fixed a bug allowing you to get infinite cats (Sorry, only 1 cat is allowed 😿 )
Fixed a bug where some users were experiencing no sound
Fixed a bug preventing the "Barely Made It Out Alive" achievement from triggering
Fixed a bug where you could sometimes print higher tier items before unlocking the prerequisites
🔨 Balance and improvements
Right click can now be used to reassign items when on a mission
Plasma Skorlupod enemy's movement speed has been reduced
Plasma Skorlupod enemy's projectile amount when killed has been reduced depending on their level of charge
Low Gravity Mission modifier Danger Level reduction has been adjusted for low Danger Level missions
Gun fire recoil velocity when floating in space has been increased, making it easier to control your movement with guns
Entity Scanner item's Loadout Points has been reduced from 2 to 1
Vortalometer item's Loadout Points has been reduced from 2 to 1
Added support to rebind to mouse buttons 4 and 5
New gameplay tip related to Defend mission wave triggering has been added
Coil Rifle item's max charge damage has been slightly increased
Coil Rifle item's Loadout Cost has been reduced from 10 to 8
Coil Rifle item's max charge timing has been made more forgiving
Adjusted distance that some enemies can spawn from player at the start of a mission
Adjusted Jump Boots item to appear slightly later in Adventure mode
Floating in the void respawn timing has been reduced from 10 seconds to 6 seconds
Magnetic Wind mission modifier's effect on NanoFlux has been reduced
Overgrowth mission modifier's coverage has been reduced
Overgrowth object's health has been slightly reduced
Made Roguelike mode description more clear
New gameplay tip has been added related to knocking away Energy Vorbs with melee weapons
Warping Space mission modifier's effect has been reduced
Some balance adjustments to boss difficulty
Siege Cannon item's damage has been slightly increased
Siege Cannon item's fire rate has been slightly increased
Siege Cannon item's Loadout Points increased from 11 to 12
Siege Cannon item's sound effect has been improved
Particle Turret item's description has been improved
Soul Echo enemy's spawn rate has been slightly reduced
Direling enemy's spawn rate has been slightly reduced
Adjusted some enemy's difficulty tier so that they do not appear too early in Roguelike mode
Adjusted Adventure mode Pluto missions so that they have less Plasma Skorlupods
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Current Release
Build 25376843
Uploaded Oct 02, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
Vortica.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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