Utopia Must Fall
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Utopia Must Fall is a vector-flavored base-defending arcade shooter with rapid progression, procedurally generated attack waves and enough upgrade variety to suit both the defensive or aggressive player.
It incorporates elements from tower defense, roguelites and beyond, all neatly packaged into a laser-sharp bullet-purgatory arcade frenzy!
- Easy To Learn : firing happens automatically, just steer the city's turret and launch the occasional sky-clearing nuclear warhead. Each day of survival is rewarded with an upgrade for your defenses, choose wisely to keep humanity alive for as long as possible.
- Sizable Upgrade Tree: progress is fast and allows you to pick strategies to suit your playing style — beef up your rail gun into a multi-barrel death machine, strengthen your shield's auto defense abilities, deploy and configure an array of automated laser turrets, or go all out on aggression and see out Utopia's final days with a stockpile of nukes and a shotgun the size of a building.
- Arcade-Focused: there is no meta-progression — in Utopia Must Fall, all universes are created equal, and death is final. Earn upgrades and unlock new abilities by completing mini-challenges as you defend the city. Get good to get the good stuff!
- Laser-Shiny: built with our brand-new V99 graphics engine, bringing you the retro-modern vector arcade style you didn't know you needed yet.
- Darkly Humorous: the world is ending soon, what else is there left to do but laugh?
This game is a work-in-progress. Contact us in the Utopia Must Fall category on the Pixeljam Discord or in the comments here to give feedback, bug reports, feature suggestions, etc. Here is what's planned next:
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $6 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- QoL Update is Live - Version 0.65616 days ago
Comments
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How awesome! Great work.
I loved the text effects!
What engine did you use?
How \ what asset did you use for the text fx?
It's a custom javascript engine we made called V99
Oh wow that awesome! Respect!
Awesome job !!!
How can I download the soundtrack ??? I loved the Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle version you made
GREAT LEADER IS DEAD.
UTOPIA MUST FALL.
I'm without words! Spectacular video game. You're alone creator of this video game ? How old are you ? Must be very intelligent. But I suppose you've some friends, or a software house.
You've developed it with Unity by my opinion. Congratulations. I love this genre of games. It result very good.
The game was actually made in javascript! :)
I'm wrong. Sorry. I've learn JavaScript bases two years ago.
I think it is simple and efficient.
I published ECMA6 examples:
https://paolo-fassin.itch.io/ecma6-css3-html5-sample-source-code
What was this game made on? It looks reaaaal good.
V99 Engine, which we made in.... Vanilla Javascript :)
Huge huge fan of this. Been putting into the ether, the idea of a roguelike spin on missile command, and I'm super thankful ya'll are on it. Great game. Looking forward to new content and controller support. This basically replaced Nova Drift as my obsession once it got it's 1.0, so I'm excited to be with ya'll on this journey as well!
Controller support is coming *very* soon
@pixeljam does the game get updates here?
Yes, we'll update it soon and keep it on parity with Steam. Next update will add controller support and performance improvements - should be in a week or 2.
Greetings,
I really like this game and I would like to translate it into Turkish voluntarily so that Turkish players can experience it. If you need help with the translation, I would be happy to help you.
How can I contact you for this?I will be looking forward to your reply.
Best regards
This game is on my short list of games I can only avoid compulsively playing by uninstalling.
Brilliant game.
I hope for more V99 games. A few more like this and I could see making a V99 arcade cabinet.
The soundtrack in the trailer sold me. Would love to see a Linux native version, but the Windows 10 version works well on Linux using Lutris.
PopOS 22.x
Great fun. Top score so far 11 days 90k.
Hey! It seems like there's some taxing vector drawing stuff going on... The longer you play the more obvious stuttering gets, but it gets reversed back to normal by pausing the game and opening a menu (rewards or help screen seem to help most of the time for me)
(It's worth noting that i've been running it on an obscenely old laptop by modern standards with all the graphics toned down so i guess it's more of a me problem lol)
Other than that, great game! Can't wait to see more!
I also noticed this while playing the demo on my Mac
FYI: Looks like it requires Windows 10 or more to run.
Interesting... is it not running for you properly? What are your specs?
Win 7 x64.
7x64 also
Can confirm - the game doesn't run in Windows 7.