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Fight boarding aliens in first person, combining guns, traps, turrets, and ship hazards to keep them from destroying your Core.
Released 25 Mar 2024
Defend Your Ship's Core
Fight Boarding Aliens
Build Traps And Turrets
SENTRY is an action-defense first person shooter where you defend your spaceship against invading aliens. Plot an escape route through hostile space and battle the enemy across your vessel with the support of traps, turrets and environmental destruction.
Developed by Fireblade Software · Published by Fireblade Software
You are a member of the SENTRY Defense Program, awakened from stasis to protect a ship fleeing through hostile space. Choose an escape route in the Navigator, where alien vessels can intercept and board your ship.
Fight through the ship’s subsystems in first person, using ranged weapons alongside deployable traps and turrets. You can also turn the environment against invaders: blast windows to vent enemies into space or shut doors to delay and redirect their advance. The campaign can be played solo or with an online friend.
Your route, battle results, and equipment choices shape the ongoing campaign. Unlock and upgrade gear to prepare for later defenses; if a SENTRY falls or a defense fails, the campaign continues with consequences for the ship’s strategic situation, as long as the Core remains operational.
Players who enjoy SENTRY often praise its blend of active first-person shooting and defense planning, especially the moment-to-moment choices about weapons, traps, and positioning. Some find co-op particularly enjoyable, and players also mention gear unlocks, varied equipment, and the soundtrack. Criticism often focuses on repeated maps and limited content, while opinions on difficulty and balance differ sharply: some describe the game as punishing, others find it too easy with effective gear or turrets.
As a member of the SENTRY Defense Program, you have been thawed from stasis to protect your vessel as it flees across space.
As you choose your escape route in the Navigator, encounters with alien vessels are unavoidable. They will board your ship and attempt to fight their way through different subsystems to destroy the Core.
Your SENTRY must thwart the enemy by bringing to bear an arsenal of potent ranged weaponry. Even with the best shooting abilities, holding back the hordes is only possible by deploying traps and turrets - and if all else fails, utilizing environmental destruction to stem their advance; a well-timed shot could vent aliens into space, a closed blast door could buy you time to set up new defenses.
SENTRY features a singleplayer campaign with the option to have an online friend fighting alongside you in co-op.
Should your SENTRY fall in battle, death is not the end. Another member of the crew will be thawed from stasis by the SENTRY Defense Program, ready to continue the fight.
Even if you fail to defend a level, defeat only changes the strategic landscape in the Ship Overview, forcing you to make new decisions on where to make your next defiant stand.
As long as there is a surviving SENTRY and the Core remains operational, your skills in combat mean victory can always be grasped from the jaws of defeat.
SENTRY aims to carve out its own path in the Action-Defense genre by featuring a campaign where your choices and performance matter. Battles are not one-off events, defeat doesn’t mean replaying a checkpoint. Everything feeds into the ongoing battle for your ship’s survival.
A SENTRY is fast, responsive - and therefore powerful. Deployable traps, turrets and environmental destruction opportunities are needed to supplement this power when facing near-overwhelming forces of reactive and aggressive enemies. Successful escapes will need to utilize a mixture of skill and planning, with discovery and upgrading of new equipment providing an edge in combat.
Combining all these elements evokes the feeling of being a beleaguered and outnumbered SENTRY. On the journey you may lose battles, but you can win the war.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
