Not styled like text. Made of text. Battle for Asciion is not just styled like text — it is text. Every ship, enemy, explosion, background and boss is rendered in real time using actual ASCII characters. There are no sprites, no textures, no PNGs hidden behind the scenes . What you see on screen is literal text. Classic arcade action Inspired by legendary horizontal shooters like Gradius and R-Type , Battle for Asciion delivers tight, old-school arcade gameplay focused on precision, memorization and pure skill. Fight through five long, challenging stages , face giant end-of-level bosses , and upgrade your weapons to survive increasingly intense waves of enemies — all represented purely through text. Retro display modes To enhance the old-school feel, the game includes multiple visual modes that simulate classic CRT monitors, including scanlines and monochrome phosphor colors such as green, amber and white . It looks like a terminal. It plays like an arcade machine. Textshot™ — Screenshots as real text Battle for Asciion is so text-based that it includes a unique feature we call Textshot™. Instead of saving screenshots as images, Textshot™ captures the current frame and saves it as a plain .TXT file containing the actual ASCII characters displayed on screen. Open it in any text editor. Copy it. Share it. Print it. It’s not an image — it’s the game, frozen in pure text form. Key Features Classic horizontal shoot ’em up gameplay inspired by arcade legends 100% real-time ASCII graphics — no sprites, no images, no textures Five long stages with massive text-based bosses Weapon upgrade system with strategic depth Deploy a single Option to extend your firepower Multiple CRT-style display modes (scanlines, green / amber / white phosphor) Textshot™: save gameplay frames as real .TXT files Local high-score leaderboard for true arcade competition Controller Support Controller support via Steam Input (keyboard emulation). Fully playable with keyboard or controller.
