Sentry is a sci-fi action-defense shooter pushing the genre in a new direction with a powerful FPS protagonist (or two in co-op) fighting an intelligent enemy where the success or failure of your battles will impact a dynamic campaign.

The fast-paced gameplay is supplemented with traps, turrets and environmental destruction but defeat doesn’t block your progress, it changes the strategic landscape in the campaign to defend your spaceship from alien invaders.

The last remaining ships make their attempted escape. As a member of the Sentry Defense Program, you have been woken from stasis to protect the precious human cargo as your vessel flees across space.

Your ship is under siege from a near-insurmountable alien foe. You must choose where to make a stand in a dynamic campaign with the enemy attacking in varying strengths across different ship subsystems. Will you decide to destroy a smaller force, preventing them from seizing a crucial subsystem? Or risk facing overwhelming odds thwarting a larger enemy thrust, blunting their main advance?

As the alien intruders target individual subsystems, they seek to destroy power cores or escape to new parts of the ship. Your Sentry must stop 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 blast door slamming shut could buy you the time to set up new defenses.

Sentry is coming to Steam Early Access in 2023, and will remain so for 9-12 months.

"When Sentry launches, there’ll be multiple levels to defend with traps, turrets, environmental destruction and your own FPS skills across two ships, all linked with a metagame campaign that dynamically updates as you attempt your escape, with persistent progression linking your campaigns. After each major update we’ll expand this section with more detail, but our intention is that whatever point of the Early Access journey you join us, you’ll be getting a supremely enjoyable game that is only going to get bigger and better."

“During Early Access, we’ll add more levels, environment types, weapons, traps, turrets and enemies. There will be a host of additional systems that enhance and expand the experience. This will be complemented by constant improvements, balancing and bug-fixing from the team and community.”

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 woken 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 dynamic campaign, forcing you to make new decisions on where to make your next defiant stand. As long as a surviving Sentry retains control of important subsystems, 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 pitting a powerful FPS character against intelligent enemies. Deployable traps, turrets and environmental destruction supplementing their attempts to survive a dynamic campaign where defeat doesn’t mean a replay, it shifts the battles to new levels.

There will be multiple short and replayable campaigns with persistent upgrades to use on future runs. These offer a ‘narrative victory’ (for those who like to complete a story), with a primarily singleplayer focus that can also be enjoyed in co-op. All of this while evoking the feeling of a desperate defense against insurmountable odds - because although you may lose some battles, you will win the war.

Sentry is in development for PC (Steam).