Vortica - Vortical Studios - Twin-Stick Shooter Roguelike, now with farming!

Indie Sunday

Hello!

My name is Chris, I'm a solo developer that has been working on Vortica for over 6 years now. I'm planning to release the game later this spring, but I’ve just now published a big demo update! 

I wanted to highlight one of the new features, the Farming Mechanic. Vortica is a game based around roguelike incursions onto planets, derelict outposts and space stations where you complete missions, loot items and gather resources. The resources can be used to craft weapons, sentry guns, traps and other useful items at your home base.

Enter, the new farming feature! Beyond being a fun addition making the home base feel more alive, this is also a great mechanic for passive resource generation, giving players that are having trouble with tricky missions an alternate way of generating resources for crafting. 

There are tons of other updates in there, Survival game mode, a big bunch of new items and new NPCs, big mission updates, new music and much more (a pet cat!).

The game has just reached 10,000 Wishlists and the last sprints are dedicated to creating more items, wrapping up the ending of the game and lots of polish!

The demo is available on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2980170/Vortica/ If you wanna chat, join the Discord https://discord.gg/7gUX79YmgQ and say hi!

Posted Feb 22, 2026, 5:03 PM UTC

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