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Genre: Indie, Arcade

Arclight Cascade

Arclight Cascade is free as of last night!
Like, totally free. No strings attached.

As of last night, Arclight Cascade is free on Steam and Itch.io, no In-App-Puchases and no ads.

And that's not changing, so have fun, we certainly did :)

We're making Arclight free.
Hello! I'm Tom, a part of Hexdragonal. It's been a little quiet because the company is shutting down :c Still, the Community has been great to us and we wanted to give back at least a little of that love.

Arclight Cascade will be made completely free on May 5th 2017, fifth of the fifth.

First on itch.io but Steam too if we're allowed!

We’re all still about and making games. Right now Chloe posts updates on her explorative SCHMUP and design explorations on Twitter @GenderTruckery and I make gaming tools and a silly cat game @TheTomTalks c:

I’ll post up again on the fifth of the fifth, thank you for sticking with us through it!

Patch Update
Small patch update, sorry about that.

Steam wasn't being linked in, so achievements and leaderboard were temporarily not working.

Should be fixed now, sorry for any inconvenience.

Arclight Cascade 1.2.0 Update
Hey everybody, there's a new update live RIGHT NOW.

Here's what we did if you're interested:

Features

  • Complete Menu Overhaul, everything should look better and be a little easier to access now.
  • Colourblind mode! You can find it in options, it only has a toggle but we think it should be enough to help you if your eyes don't want to tell you about those pesky colours, let us know if we're wrong!
  • Leaderboard for total kills! Have you contributed the most to the war effort? (To upload stats if you played before this update, go and play a game and it'll update the leaderboard)
  • Controls changed almost completely. Pressing shoulder buttons to swing a sword is so 1979, so now just use the sticks to flail to your hearts content. If you really miss the old days though, you can always just press BACK.
  • The camera is no longer static. It's more dynamic and freeflowing for a more interesting gameplay experience.
  • Pause menu control scheme guide, so if you forget what button dash is, you can quickly check during gameplay.
  • King of the Hill mode. Now you can score points in more ways than just hitting your friends.
  • Speaking of a new mode, we also have more levels now, so you can have some additional variation in your sword swinging.
  • New achievements! Want to show off to the world that you've beaten Arclight's story mode? Well now you can.


We hope you enjoy the new things we've added! We'll see you for more updates soon.

Update 1.2 coming soon!
Hi to all the podders out there, whether you are new or old, we have some exciting news!

We're going to be updating the game to 1.2 in the next week or so, and that brings with it a brand new UI, here's a sneak peek:



It's still not quite done, so you'll have to make do with that, unless you're at EGX this weekend where we're showing off the new update ahead of time! If you're attending, come check us out in the Rezzed zone.

Hope you're having fun with the game, keep swinging!

Arclight Cascade 1.1.1 Update
Arclight Cascade Post Release Update Version 1.1.1

Just some small usability tweaks and a bugfix. We hope you're all enjoying the game and we'll see you in the Cascade!


  • Altered Tooltip on the Survival Mode Menu
  • Made the back button visible at all times on the Survival Mode Menu
  • Added a score tracker below the timer in Single Player
  • Removed Artifacting on the Hexdragonal Logo Screen
  • Bouncers are now invincible
  • Join menu now react appropriately to all players being ready

  • Fixed Multiplayer Camera moving incorrectly bug