Landfall in Ostallia

What it is

Landfall in Ostallia is a fast 1-bit arcade shooter for Playdate. The developer pitches it as "Bosconian-style maze-base destruction meets Nuclear Throne-style chaos": you land on alien planets and tear apart the glowing forges built around reactor cores. Only the blinking turret ends of a forge can be shot, and destroying one collapses the whole branch back to the next junction, so you chip each base apart until its shield drops and you can blow the core. Levels wrap around at every edge.

Your hero fires automatically in the direction it faces; you walk with the d-pad and turn the crank to aim, holding B to lock your aim and pressing A for a special skill. There are five heroes (Marine, Engineer, Scout, Hacker and Wraith), each with its own skill, eight alien types, and six worlds around the Ostallian sun, each with its own hazard and a guardian boss at the end. Beyond those, endless star systems add five more world types, power-ups, random events and bonus stages.

Runs give you three lives, with an upgrade pick after every guardian. There's also a daily challenge (same mazes and hero for everyone, one attempt), leaderboards, 13 achievements and a bestiary kept on the Playdate. It was published on itch.io on 31 Oct 2026 for $4.99.

Who made it

AndCake, solo developer, per the itch.io page.

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