
The official Project X sequel ✨ Back after 30 years!🎮 A demanding, skill-based experience that rewards patience and mastery. Not every game is for everyone — this one is for players who love a real, fair challenge. Try the demo and see if you’re up for it. Failure teaches. Mastery rewards.
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Thirty years have passed since the first battle against the alien menace in Project X. Now, the threat has returned—stronger, smarter, and more relentless than ever.
Project X: Light Years brings back high-octane, side-scrolling shoot’em-up action as the official successor to the beloved Amiga classic.
Crafted by passionate fans and shaped through close collaboration with players and members of the original development team, it honors the legacy while pushing the series to the next level.

In Project X: Light Years, players once again take command of advanced spacecraft, navigating treacherous enemy zones and battling relentless waves of foes and towering bosses.
Featuring modern graphics, refined gameplay mechanics, and a soundtrack that pays tribute to the original classic, Project X: Light Years is crafted for both long-time fans and a new generation of players.
Outfit your ship with a diverse arsenal of powerful weapons and upgrades, plan your assault, and put your piloting skills to the ultimate test. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance—will you rise to the challenge and repel the alien invasion once and for all?
Gameplay:
Relive the intense, fast-paced gameplay of the original Project X—now rebuilt with modern graphics, fluid animations, and refined controls for a smoother, more responsive experience.
Fight your way through a wide range of beautifully crafted stages, from treacherous asteroid fields to hostile alien worlds—each with its own hazards and surprises.
Encounter a diverse lineup of foes, each armed with unique attack patterns and behaviors. From swarms of agile fighters to colossal screen-filling bosses, every battle pushes your reflexes and strategy.
Collect power-ups and ship enhancements to boost firepower, speed, and defense. Tailor your loadout to your preferred playstyle and adapt to the escalating threats ahead.
Add explosive chaos or quirky twists to every run with more than forty randomized power-ups—ensuring no two matches ever feel the same.
A refined scoring system tracks your accuracy, timing, and overall performance. Precision and consistency are rewarded, making each run more competitive and endlessly replayable.
With a full spectrum of options, you can adjust the game for a proper bullet hell experience.
No more losing all your weapons when you go down. Get back into the action quickly and keep the momentum going.
Carry several weapons at once and freely swap between them on the fly, allowing deeper strategy and more varied combat tactics.
Take on towering bosses equipped with formidable defenses and devastating attack patterns. Victory demands strategy, precision, and clever use of your full weapon arsenal.
Join forces with a friend in local co-op mode. Coordinate your firepower, support each other in heated battles, and tackle the toughest encounters as a team.
Experience Project X: Light Years with modern enhancements including high-definition graphics, achievements, and online leaderboards. Compete globally for the highest scores, fastest runs, and ultimate bragging rights.
Alister and Chris Brimble reunite with the franchise, restoring the unmistakable legacy of the original classic.
Use your allocated credits to continue from place you died. Quit and save your session to resume later, or restart from any level you’ve already beaten.
Play on Rookie difficulty with 99 credits. Sit back, relax, and enjoy a stress-free gaming experience.
Special difficulty - Fewer waves, zero bosses, the game is 30% shorter, and it's really hard to go down. Just fly and pew-pew
High-Definition Visuals: Stunning, hand-crafted visuals bring the universe of "Project X Light Years" to life, with vibrant colors and detailed environments.
Dedicated 2 Soundtracks: Choose between an epic soundtrack that captures the spirit of the original game, or an alternative version with a harder, more intense beat.
Smooth Controls: Intuitive and responsive controls designed for both veteran players and newcomers. No inertia this time :)
Replayability: Online Seasons, Arena and Main Story, 5 game modes, 5 difficulty levels, hidden secrets, and unlockable content ensure hours of engaging gameplay.
Two Player Co-Op Mode.
Online leaderboards


*Game has no AI generated content
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
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Reviews
If you played the Original, way back in the day and enjoyed it, this is your chance to finally get past the second level... Amiga disk-access noises add wonderfully to the nostalgia :) The game is HARD and very unforgiving, just as the original was. The "Reloaded" career mode lets you play as a roguelite, with aspects of your progress saved between runs. Just so happens to be currenlty my favourite genre of game It can feel a little slow but in this new era of bullet-hells and twitch-based reactions, frankly I rather like it! If you know NOTHING of the original, this is side-scrolling on-rails space shooter with multiple options for ship upgrades. Upgrades last for that run in most of the game modes though Continues and Extra Life lets you pick up 'dropped' upgrades. Thankfully, it doesn't QUITE fit as a bullet-hell game but there is at any time a lot going on and memorising wave patterns is definitely the way to win. The game engine used does not natively support cloud-saves, but the developer has implimented a pseudo-cloud for it - your save is automatically uploaded to a server and if like me you play on multiple devices, you need to remember to 'pull down' the save when you change devices. DEFINTELY benefits from a controller on the PC, and plays very well on Steam deck
Instant buy for me due to bias playing the original and SE versions (original was balls-hard, hence the SE re-release). I really like the modern touches, I think they make it a bit more accessible to more poeple; less punishing on the power-ups for your ship (imo) is a good thing, because it honestly feels better shooting more things with ghiants weapons, than grinding back with a tiny pew-pew for half the level. There's definitely some creative flair added here and I like it - my only graphical concern (and this is nit-picking) is that sometimes the lethal buillets can be hard to see in the mix of harmlessd background atillery (such as that white fireball in that I always flinch on!), you get used to telliing the difference quickly but I wonder if on higher difficulties this becomes more trouble.. I looked up a quick guide of the difference in primary weaponry, but everything else is fun to explore and experiment, the levels are quite lengthy and entertaining, there's even some R-Type style claustrophobia moments which are nice change-ups to the open skies. PLUS the Dev is still making small updates, pacthes and QoL changes to hte game, hard worker! Music is Brimble-awesome as well.
Bardzo udana konwersja z Amigi, tak samo dobrze się bawiłem jak w 1992 roku.
Project x na sterydach. Rewelka. Każdy kto ogrywał w latach 90 będzie się świetnie bawił.
Good modern version of classic Amiga shoot'em up
Amazing sequel to the original Amiga game from Team17! Great & fresh ideas added to the classic formula, amazing art that is coherent with the original stuff, both Brimbles had their input in the audio department. Such a great shooter, feels & plays really good. While I found it a tiny wee buggy, the game is getting constant updates and the developer is super active in the community forums, too. 11/10 already recommended.
Fun and challenging game and responsive, friendly devs.
It was wonderful, but after 1.5.3.5 update it's full of bugs, almost unplayable! Hangs between levels if an Xbox controller is connected, sometimes music and effects disappear, sometimes is starts a level with very slow graphics. The day before the update it was perfect! EDIT: the developer immediately fixed the problem, the game is wonderful again!
What a big crap,just because the damn chip doesnt have speed and the game have too many craps,are you kidding me....
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