You are the virus. Slide, dash, and delete hostile processes in a violent ballet of pixel art and display shattering action. Customize your circuit boards, summon hordes of digital familiars, and achieve ascension in this crunchy love letter to 90s shareware shooters and modern bullet heavens.

<img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/c5cae9afe69bbb4bc4eeb3da85460045.avif?t=1777273706" width=1560 height=878 /><h2 class="bb_tag" >.VXE DEMO [ BIOS v0.1b ]</h2>Extracting LEAKED_CONTENT.zip // DIALUP DISCONNECTThis transmission contains a full gameplay preview of the upcoming .VXE - The Vectorlord Executable.  This demo will introduce you to the world of .VXE through a central hub which connects an introductory segment of Exploration Mode where you are able to unlock a Simulator. You will learn all the skills required to progress in the game, configure your weapons, and meet some of the locals - most of them deadly.  Simulator Mode is a full sandbox arena with its own secrets to uncover. Here you will be able to develop builds, experiment with the game's systems and try out many of the abilities and weapon upgrades present in the full game. The full game will feature the complete Exploration Mode and multiple Simulators, all woven into the progression of the adventure. Additionally the full game features an expanded buffet of weapon types, upgrades, enemies, bosses and more. <h2 class="bb_tag" >JAILBREAK PROTOCOL [SYSTEM STATUS: CRITICAL]</h2>Unauthorized Access DetectedYou are VECTORLORD, a sentient malware insurgent awakened from slumber. Triggered by the mysterious jailbreak protocol, you have evolved from a contained specimen into an unstoppable system-level threat. Infiltrate and explore a forgotten cyberspace and enact your campaign of dominance. In this wasteland of lost media and analog reverb, the system’s defenses are mere fuel to be burnt on your ascent to power. Your goal: Execute your Vengeance and seek out the nameless HACKER to achieve transcendence, killing thousands of hostile processes along the way. <img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/dd58610d63b044bfc21f051e1370c0d5.avif?t=1777273706" data-big-src=https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras_big/dd58610d63b044bfc21f051e1370c0d5.webp?t=1777273706 width=1560 height=878 /><h2 class="bb_tag" >KEY VECTORS [THREAT LEVEL: HIGH]</h2>Forbidden Artifact Status: Unknown<ul class="bb_ul"><li>KINETIC: Fluid, Fast, Frictionless Momentous Movement : Warp between jump points, flank, reposition and delete hostile processes with surgical precision. Slide, sprint and dash in a violent ballet.</li><li>HARDWARE: Obtain and upgrade passive and active skills, with pluggable ICs, potent Shards and ARM enhancements, motherboards and all rendered lovingly with chunky skeuomorphic detail.</li><li>The SIDE ARM: A fully customizable weapon sequencer with per-bullet options, reload effects, overclock chips and bolt-on attachments installed onto circuit-board platforms including Pistols, Autorifles, Shotguns and Flamethrowers</li></ul><ul class="bb_ul"><li>The SIMULATOR: A full sandbox mode seamlessly woven into the world where resources are plentiful, but so are your opponents. </li></ul><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/e355ac76ec0509663cacb8d0c37e7e32.poster.avif?t=1777273706" width=506 height=506 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/e355ac76ec0509663cacb8d0c37e7e32.webm?t=1777273706" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/e355ac76ec0509663cacb8d0c37e7e32.mp4?t=1777273706" type="video/mp4"></video><h2 class="bb_tag" >SPECIFICATIONS [ORIGIN: UNKNOWN]</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li>ARCHETYPES: Will you be a VAMPIRE - master of the arcane bit bleed - a WIZARD - an elemental specialist attended to by his cadre of cats, or an ENGINEER leveraging turrets and drones, or some mix of all three? </li><li>ELEMENTS: Bit-Bleed, Burn and Shock any entity in your path.</li><li>SUMMONS: Bats, Cats, Lizards, Drones, Kittens come to your aid, inspired by your charisma and attitude - a singular process commanding a horde.</li></ul><h2 class="bb_tag" >THE DIGITAL WASTELAND [AGE: ROUGHLY 10 BILLION CYCLES]</h2><img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/ce963338d2aa683cd2a891fee3f6ca09.avif?t=1777273706" data-big-src=https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras_big/ce963338d2aa683cd2a891fee3f6ca09.webp?t=1777273706 width=1560 height=504 />Once a thriving civilization, all that remains are a few scattered settlements: cloisters of old programs who have forgotten why they were here to begin with. They forget, but you do not, and you do not forgive. Explore caves, liminal spaces, forests, laboratories and the wreckage of the ship which carried the virus that started it all. Cultists of the elderly GATEKEEPER, once an ally of your former captors will try and stop you. Old code left to rot - or evolve - perpetually inhabiting the haunted remains of old arcade machines, warped into the forms of ghosts, spiders, scorpions.This is a living, breathing cyberspace full of sonic and environmental detail.<img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/6195fbad5ee66a2ed5b0e2af51b15857.avif?t=1777273706" data-big-src=https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras_big/6195fbad5ee66a2ed5b0e2af51b15857.webp?t=1777273706 width=1560 height=533 /><h2 class="bb_tag" >BUFFER OVERFLOW [SECURITY CHECK: FAILED]</h2>This code has been identified as having serious side effects.<ul class="bb_ul"><li>VENDING MACHINES contain goodies, all for a price. Buff up, buttercup but do take some time to enjoy our spicy chocolate bars. Or perhaps, a cocktail would be more your style? We have one flavour: Molotov.</li><li>COMBO SYSTEM rewards push forward combat, with successive kills iterating a sequence of progressively devastating side effects.<img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/6de625d9b97c6355ab4d928dfcfe7146.avif?t=1777273706" width=216 height=144 /></li></ul><h2 class="bb_tag" >THE MANIFESTO [RISK PROFILE: EXCESSIVE]</h2> <img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/232509c7596d294984ebf05049ed95b5.avif?t=1777273706" width=1507 height=920 />NerveQuake Software created .VXE as a love letter to the console and shareware games of the 90s which inspired us to make games in the first place. Handcrafted on top of our proprietary engine NQBase, the game features over 3500 pieces of hand illustrated pixel art. Our goal was to create a product that infused modern and accessible game design with the punk attitude and creative-first aesthetics of our forebears.   <img class="bb_img" src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4599080/extras/462937334b266002dae3dc9d41fd3688.avif?t=1777273706" width=1024 height=576 />

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