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The core will not wait.

Strap into the claw and spin around a glowing wireframe web, torching everything that dares crawl up your lane. Pure vector combat. Neon lines, screaming synths, and a tube that never, ever stops closing in.

Swipe. Fire. Survive.

Download for iPhone Android coming soon

Free through the first boss fight. No ads mid-run. No pay-to-win.

Vertex Core boxed cartridge art: a chrome fighter banking away from a glowing blue wireframe tunnel

Actual game screens

iPhone · captured in-engine

Gameplay: a blue wireframe tube with enemies climbing the lanes toward the player's ship
Lane combat
Boss fight: the Core Guardian, a writhing knot of orange light, descending over a red grid battlefield
Core Guardian
Game over screen showing a new high score and a three-letter arcade name entry
Three-letter glory
10Tube shapes
8Colour schemes
7Enemy types
3Power-ups
0Ads mid-run

See it move.

Sixty seconds of the real thing. Lanes electrifying, combos stacking, a Plasma Bomb levelling the tube. Shot vertical, because that's how you'll play it.

  • Vertical 9:16
  • Captured in-engine
  • Sound on
Gameplay reel Incoming

Nothing prepares
you for this.

The tube cracks open into an infinite flat battlefield, and a colossal, writhing knot of raw energy descends from the black sky above.

It's armoured. It's untouchable. It dares you to find the split-second window when its core splits wide open. And if you're fast enough, sharp enough, brave enough, you strike, and it burns. Every Guardian's shape is grown from scratch, so no two ever look quite the same.

Beat it and earn a wingman: a second ship at your side

The Core Guardian descending over a red grid battlefield while the player's ship holds the bottom rim

The core is calling.

Are you radical enough to answer?

Download on the App Store Android coming soon

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