HalfLight
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About this game
HalfLight takes a ship through six stages, from a nebula to a fortress, city and final warpspace encounter. Shoot approaching enemies and collect the upgrade icons explained by the main menu's Help screen. Its continue-point message tells you when a new restart location has been reached.
Use the arrows to move. Ctrl, Space and Enter are alternatives for the main gun, while Alt fires a mega-bomb. Enter also selects menu options. Escape backs out of a menu or asks to quit an active game; leaving a run loses your place.
The package's change notes identify version 1.02, which restores full health at the end of a level. Weapons return to their starting state between levels, so a powerful loadout is temporary. Pay attention to pickups and continue messages instead of assuming that an upgrade or restart position will carry unchanged through the whole game.
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Quick tips
Alt uses the mega-bomb; Ctrl, Space or Enter fires the main gun.
Listen for the continue-point message and remember weapons reset between levels.
- Arrow keys
- Move the ship
- Ctrl / Space / Enter
- Fire the main gun
- Alt
- Fire a mega-bomb
- Enter
- Select a menu option
- Esc
- Back out / request to quit the current game
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Rights and Source Notes
Browser play uses the archived Freeware release. Official project references are listed below.
- Distribution
- Freeware
- Browser player
- js-dos · Browser play
- Added to archive
- 2026-07-28
- Official references