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Top-down space combat shooter. 6 chassis, 8 weapons, 3 enemy factions, 3 bosses. Craft your build, fight through 12 sectors, survive endless waves, and compete in daily challenges. Global leaderboards.
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COSMIC WARFRONT
SteamAbout COSMIC WARFRONT
YOU ARE THE LAST LINE OF DEFENSE
The outer sectors have gone silent. Defense nodes compromised. An AI called Archon has turned humanity's own infrastructure into a weapon — and now it's closing in.
You pilot a heavy combat platform. 12 sectors of dead space, three armies, and one shot at reaching Archon's core.
No reinforcements. No backup. Just you and whatever you build your ship into.
BUILD. ADAPT. BREAK THROUGH.
Cosmic Warfront isn't one ship with one gun. It's a combat machine constructor.
Your chassis defines your playstyle. Your weapon defines your rhythm. Your drone covers your weaknesses. Modules and artifacts turn a good build into an unstoppable one.
6 CHASSIS:
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Interceptor — speed, combo multipliers, time slowdown
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Assault — balanced DPS, orbital strikes on clusters
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Engineer — drones, repairs, protective dome
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Dreadnought — armor, ramping damage at the cost of shields
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Vanguard — head-on assault, system overload, heavy tanking
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Spectre — crits, phase windows, surgical precision
8 WEAPON TYPES — from homing missiles and chain lightning to ricocheting flechettes and triple plasma volleys.
4 COMBAT DRONES — strike, repair, interceptor, radar.
30+ MODULES and ARTIFACTS across four rarity tiers.
192+ base build combinations. With modules and artifacts — thousands. No two runs play the same.
FOUR RESOURCES. ZERO MARGIN FOR ERROR.
You can't just hold the trigger. Every decision is a trade-off:
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Shield — regenerates, but every hit resets the timer
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Hull — when the shield drops, damage goes here. No healing without a drone or shop
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Energy — powers your dash, railgun, EMP, and ultimate. Spent it all on dodges? Nothing left for the kill shot
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Heat — hold fire too long and your weapon locks up. At the worst possible moment
A good pilot aims well. A great pilot knows when NOT to fire.
THREE ARMIES. THREE TACTICS. THREE BOSSES.
What works against one faction will fail against another.
SYNTHETIC SWARM
Dozens of small targets. Rammers, leapers, living bombs. Alone — nothing. In a wave — death.
Boss QUEEN: bullet fans, homing missiles, escalating aggression with each phase.
GUARDIAN MACHINES
Beams, shields, traps, space denial. They don't chase you — they cut off every escape route.
Boss PRISM: a puzzle fight. Read the patterns or die.
SPACE MARAUDERS
Mines, heavy armor, raw firepower.
Boss CARRIER: drones, mines, and missile salvos all at once. Multitask or die.
8 elite modifiers — blink, vampiric, berserk, self-repair — make familiar enemies unpredictable every run.
SKILL IS REWARDED
The game feels how you play and pays you for taking risks:
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Kill Streak / Multi-Kill — chain kills multiply your reward
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Adrenaline Rush — near death, you hit harder
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Perfect Dodge — flawless evasion grants a bonus
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Near-Miss — skim past a bullet, regain energy
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Berserker Mode — 30 consecutive kills trigger rampage
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Danger Zone — bonus when surrounded by 3+ enemies
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Last Stand — one revival per sector. Use it wisely.
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Overkill Explosion — excess damage splashes to nearby enemies
20 combat mechanics in total. Risk more — earn more.
4 GAME MODES
CAMPAIGN — 12 sectors, 4 acts, full narrative. Shops between missions, upgrade choices, and a final showdown with Archon.
ENDLESS — Infinite waves with escalating difficulty. How far can you go?
CONTRACTS — Fixed modifier sets, higher payouts. Specific challenge, specific reward.
DAILY SEED — Same seed for every player, every day. Equal conditions. Pure skill.
Each mode across 4 difficulty levels: Arcade, Standard, Veteran, Hardcore.
7 MISSION TYPES x 6 BIOMES
Missions: Survive, Hold Beacon, Escort Core, Hunt Elites, Destroy Relay, Boss Assault, and special operations.
Biomes: nebulae, asteroid belts, dead orbits, magnetic storms, silent sectors, gravitational anomalies.
Every combination of mission and biome changes your approach. No two sectors feel the same.
KEY FEATURES
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192+ build combinations — chassis, weapons, drones, modules, artifacts
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4 real-time resources — shield, hull, energy, heat
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3 factions with unique AI — adapt to each or lose
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20 mastery mechanics — the game rewards risk and precision
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Global leaderboards
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Story-driven campaign — 12 sectors, 4 acts
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Daily challenges — fair competition on equal terms
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Full control remapping
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2 languages — English, Russian
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Runs on anything
Helios-9 is silent. Archon is waiting. The question isn't whether you can make it — it's what build you'll bring.
COSMIC WARFRONT. BUILD. ADAPT. BREAK THROUGH.
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