Dark Old Sun is a shoot'em up , with focus on choice and progressiveness, so you can choose between a wide selection of weapons, and upgrade them becoming way more powerfull as you play.

Different stages with new ideas each, so it will not get repetitive.
Having 3 levels of difficulty, for beginners on shoot'em ups to hardcore skilled players.
Epic multi-phase boss battles with enormous focus in challenge and variety, making boss fights a real deal, and almost as important as the level itself.

For those who dont like to play with the new leveling system , can play in the classic way, where upgrades will be get automatically.

Different modes to play:
Arcade/Story mode - Play the full story, with 6 different stages designs, bringing new ideas, as you progress through leveling your weapons and abilities.
Challenge mode - a variety of challenges with new ideas and gameplay that dont fit in the original story mode.
Survival mode - Survive through random enemy waves, with new behaviors not seen in any other mode and special random events to spice up things.

• 17 Different weapons and abilities.
  
• More than 70 Upgrades.
  
• 3 Difiiculty sets, with a Extreme mode where enemies get new abilities.
  
• more than 50 enemy types, resulting in more than 200 variations with different behaviors and attacks.
  
• 360 degrees aim (Free AIM).
  
• 3 Game modes.
  
• 6 stages in story mode.
  
• 12 unique challenges.
  
• Controller support (Xinput).
  
• Steam Cloud and achievements. (Steam cards soon)

As earth and humanity get its darkest days with energy shortage, a small dark star but really bright at the same time, appears close enough to Earth.

Humanity get to harvest that star energy saving all human kind.
Meanwhile a man get the hands in a extremely powerfull spaceship, the VoidWalker. what motives he have? what his objective?