# Cross twenty light-years to find your sister — into an abandoned alien station where gravity itself fights you.
**Alternative Gravity: Rescue Mission** is a demanding, physics-driven flight challenge where the hardest enemy is gravity itself.
**The year is 2489.** Humanity has finally crossed the stars at the speed of light — but every leap forward carries a new danger. Years ago, a vast alien ship descended from the sky and took your sister. After tracing its signal across twenty light-years, you arrive, alone, at the place it led you: an immense, abandoned alien station drifting in the dark.
To find her, you pilot your craft deep into the structure — slowly, carefully, because it is not as dead as it seems. Its builders mastered gravity itself and bent space with wormhole technology, and the further you push inside, the more its silent defenses begin to wake. What is this place protecting? And why, the closer you get, does the pull of a black hole grow stronger?
This is not a casual arcade flyer. It is built for players who want to be tested.
**GRAVITY IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE**
Your ship obeys real momentum. Its main engines are strong, but its reverse thrusters are deliberately weak — so slowing down is hard, and speed you build carelessly will end your run. On some worlds gravity even flips, and you must flip with it, switching to your more powerful lower engines to push against a sky that has turned upside down. Master your thrust, watch your velocity, and stay in control — or the station will take you apart.
**EVERY LEVEL CAN BE BEATEN — IF YOU EARN IT**
No level is impossible, but many will push you to your limit. Progress comes from patience, precision, and learning from each failure, never from rushing. And when you finally clear a section that beat you twenty times, you'll feel every second of it.
**WHAT YOU'LL FACE**
- Skill-based flight built on real momentum and "alternative gravity"
- A vast alien station that turns from silent and empty to actively hostile
- Gravity-flip zones that force you to rethink which way is up
- Alien technology: gravity manipulators, wormhole gates, and awakening defense systems
- Hazards that build toward the crushing pull of a black hole
- Precise stabilize-and-strike bombing — steady your ship to near-zero velocity, then drop
- Honest difficulty: no filler, no luck, just you, your ship, and the physics
**FROM THE DEVELOPER**
This game began in 2019 under the name "Complex Space Ship." I didn't want to make another fast, twitchy space shooter — I wanted the opposite: that deeply satisfying feeling of wrestling a ship through tight obstacles, where every hard turn actually means something. Back then I built it in the Godot Engine, but I couldn't get the physics to feel the way I imagined, so I moved to Unreal Engine, rebuilt almost everything from scratch, wrote the story, and fell into a long loop of trying to make it perfect.
Seven years later, I'll be honest with you: it still doesn't feel finished to me. I'm a perfectionist, and for a long time that kept the game trapped on my hard drive. What finally pushed me to release it was a simple idea — "don't let perfect get in the way of good enough." Life got busier, the tools moved faster around me, and I realized that waiting forever would only mean this world never reaches anyone. So here it is, as it is, made with everything I had.
A note on AI, because I believe in being honest: the story and the design are mine, and 100% of the programming is my own work. AI was used only in a limited way — a few background images in the story scenes, and the voice of the in-game AI assistant (which, fittingly, should sound like an AI). I could remove or replace those, but I don't think using AI to help tell your story faster is a bad thing. The story itself is written by me; the cutscenes are mostly text and voice, with those AI-assisted background images. If you'd like to see where it all begins, the opening story is in the video above.
This was meant to be the project where I learned how to finish and publish a game, before moving on to my real dream — my main Omani title. Somehow, this one pulled me in like a black hole. If you enjoy it, even with its rough edges, that means more to me than I can say.
**A fair warning: **this is a challenging game by design. If you're after a relaxed ride, this may not be for you. But if you want a genuine test of skill, patience, and nerve — the rescue is waiting.
