Vectron Swarm Protocol

Outnumbered. Never outgunned.

Pilot a starfighter through a machine uprising in VECTRON: Swarm Protocol, a fast-paced, top-down arcade survival shooter.

Destroy hostile drones, collect energy crystals, and combine upgrades to build your own fighting machine. Dodge incoming fire, unleash a screen-clearing nova, and activate Overdrive when the swarm closes in.

Your mission: survive three hostile sectors, defeat their guardians, and make it home.

Choose your frame

All four ships are available from the start.

A balanced interceptor equipped with a rapid pulse repeater.

A heavily armored assault ship with a spread-firing scatter cannon.

A fast precision striker with powerful, piercing rail shots.

An autonomous hunter whose homing missiles track enemies.

Fighting style
VECTOR
BASTION
LANCER
HELIX

Two ways to fight

• Campaign: Battle through three sectors and face the Warden, Hex Oracle, and the Singularity.
• Endless: Push through increasingly dangerous sectors and chase your personal best.

Build your arsenal

Choose from 18 combat upgrades, including additional projectiles, piercing shots, critical hits, stasis rounds, ricochets, and hull repairs.

Add orbiting blades, deploy missile-firing wingmen, chain lightning between enemies, or turn destroyed hostiles into explosive chain reactions. Choose one of three offered modules each time you level up.

Three abilities. Plenty of ways out.

• Phase Dash: Burst through danger with brief damage immunity.
• Pulse Nova: Damage and push back nearby enemies while clearing hostile shots within its blast radius.
• Overdrive: Charge your energy through combat, then unleash seven seconds of boosted firepower and refreshed ability cooldowns.

Make every run count

Bank salvage when your run ends and spend it on five permanent upgrade systems. Improve your hull, damage, regeneration, collection range, and ability recharge times across all four ships.

Earn eight achievements, maintain score multipliers, and track your best scores and recent deployments.

Desktop controls

Move

WASD or arrow keys

Aim

Mouse

Fire

Automatic by default; hold left mouse when automatic fire is disabled

Phase Dash

Space or Shift

Pulse Nova

E

Overdrive

R

Toggle automatic targeting

Q

Pause or resume

Esc or P

Mute or restore audio

M

Toggle fullscreen

F

Control

Touch controls

Drag the left joystick to move. Your ship aims and fires automatically. Use the buttons on the right to activate your abilities.

Adjust your experience

Choose your preferred aiming and firing options, adjust audio volume, enable the electronic soundtrack, reduce visual effects, disable screen shake, or switch to lower visual quality.

Your progress

Permanent upgrades, achievements, and records are saved locally in your browser. Use Records → Export Save to create a backup, and Import Save to restore it or move to another device.

Play directly in your browser. Fullscreen is recommended.

Pick your frame. Break the swarm.

Share your best score and favorite ship in the comments!