A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Tactical Retro Combat. End the Core War.

Revisit your childhood in this years-in-the-making free open-source recreation of Flashbacker's ShellCore Command series, reimagined and overhauled for the modern day. As a "newborn" uninfected ShellCore, you will embark on a journey to uncover the secrets of a bizarre and hostile world.

Features:

  • RTS-style combat where your objective is to build defenses in strategic points to eventually destroy the enemy's bases.
  • 4 episodes of story to play.
  • Parts. You can put parts on your ship to make a cooler ship with more parts, and then make an even cooler ship with even more parts. Need I add more?
  • Over 40 unique abilities to use in combat.
  • An in-game world editor. The main game world was created using this editor in its entirety!
  • If you join the Discord, you can download several community maps, some of which are larger than the main map!
  • Multiplayer PvP with hosted servers! Push your BattleZone abilities to their limits online or in a LAN.

GitHub: https://github.com/rudderbucky/shellcore

Discord: https://discord.gg/TXaenta

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sccr_linux.tar.gz 90 MB
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sccr_osx.tar.gz 101 MB
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sccr_windows.zip 89 MB

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And Sector borders should be different than ground btw. It would be a great fix too.

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When I start the game nothing happens, I only get a blue/purple-ish screen... only key that do something is E, which opens a map... what am I doing wrong?  

Are you playing using the itch.io launcher? If not, you should try that.

If you are attempting to directly download the zip, make sure you extract it fully instead of executing the game from within the zip.

I unzipped it correctly, the game start but when I start a game it freezes, I think I'm not doing something correctly :/

Would definitely be easier to troubleshoot if you join the discord and make a post about this.

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LAST EDIT: 4/23/24, RELEASE 0.0.0

I just wanted to leave my review here after finishing my latest playthrough.

Great game, I love what you're doing with my beloved childhood Flash game, and the added challenge really makes people think what strategy they can use for their next objective. The story, the friends along the way, the extra customization!

Maybe it's just my skill issue, but the latter parts of Chapter 3 (involving some Defected-filled Battlezones) are unreasonable to say the least. You're gonna need a well balanced ship that can attack both air and ground(especially ground, Lasers won't work) from a good distance, or else the Ground base's Ion weapons will shred you to bits and turn the battle into an impasse.

There's also several optional areas from the last Beta version missing(One of which was teased in dialogue, and shown later in Episode 3!!!), which I found really cool, and I'm sad they got removed.

If you're utterly bored, having trouble choosing your next indie game to play as a content creator, or you just clicked on this out of morbid curiosity, I welcome you (back) to ShellCore Command.

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part count has a limit. cant play past a certin point with only five guns allowed. i give up,its a lost game if it gonna be like this.

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You can upgrade your weapon limit at the Core Upgrader, or use the cheat "no limits" after pressing F3 if you want to circumvent the part limit.

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Can't install via the Itch app.

Hey, in all honesty I didn't even know the Itch app was a thing. It should be working now though. The community mainly resides in the Discord channel.

Nice! Though I'm not really sure what the Discord bit has to do with anything.

It's generally where I take suggestions/bug reports, that's all.

love it!

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This is a blast from the past! Will this ever go to mobile? Want to play this on android

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Awesome work on this so far!!! There's a couple bugs in regards to mission chains (the one of which that's in regards to crystal farming doesn't seem to be fixable by restarting), ally respawn (easily fixed by restarting or reassigning, though still a bit obnoxious), and the Sell feature in Yards (doesn't seem to work at all, for some reason, though being able to sell at Traders anyways seems to make that much irrelevant), but all in all, amazing work. Seriously. You have made for an amazing nostalgia trip that is well worth passing along to others.