1-Bit Starfighter
One tiny fighter, one point of health, and a black-and-white galaxy closing in from every side.
About This Game
One tiny fighter, one point of health, and a black-and-white galaxy closing in from every side. Your missiles fire by themselves, three or four shots a second, but they go wherever the nose is pointing, so aiming is just steering: swing the ship onto a target, thrust, drift, and let momentum carry you through the gaps.
Enemies come in three grades, from quick scouts that simply ram you to drones and heavier fighters that circle and shoot, and every new sector makes them tougher, faster, more crowded and worth more points. Thirty seconds into each sector the spawns cut off, and once the field thins out a boss barges in with fan-shaped volleys and blocks the way forward until it dies.
Kills chain into a combo that climbs to 99 and pads everything you earn, while drops rotate your weapon between single, twin, spread and homing missiles and permanently stack your speed and reload. There are no spare lives, so survival is less about firepower than about never letting the swarm close its circle.
Game Tips
- 💣 Bombs detonate the instant you grab them — dive in when enemies swarm
- 🔥 Chain kills without a pause and combo points stack up
- 🎁 The boss drops two whole items when it falls
Controls
- Drag the joystick : Thrust in the direction you tilt
- Drag the screen : Move the fighter toward where you press
- ← → : Rotate the ship left and right
- ↑ : Thrust in the direction you're facing
- ※ Missiles auto-fire straight ahead — turn the nose onto the enemy
Game info
- Players
- 1 player
- Developer
- PLAYMINIT — original game, made in-house
- Released
- 2026.06.09
- Last updated
- 2026.10.27
- Version
- v2.6
- Scoring
- pts · Higher is better
- Monthly ranking
- Supported
- Controls
- Touch · Keyboard
Dev Log
- v2.6
Same field on every screen
- Bigger screens now show the same play area as phones
- Big screens no longer spot enemies sooner on screen or radar
- v2.5
Offline play fix
- Fixed the game failing to start offline
- v2.4
Behind-the-scenes cleanup
- No changes to gameplay
Earlier versions (5)
- v2.3
Score rescale
- Scores rescaled to about a tenth of the old values
- v2.2
Floating joystick
- Steer with a floating joystick wherever you touch
- v2.1
Touch joystick
- Added an on-screen joystick for steering and thrust
- Fixed WASD on non-English keyboard layouts
- v2.0
Rebuilt as 1-Bit Starfighter
- Black-and-white space shooter where one hit ends your run
- Tougher enemies and a boss in every sector
- Weapon drops and kill combos, scored in points
- v1.0
First release
- Launch a 1-bit rocket and fly it as high as you can
- Drop up to three fuel stages for big boosts
