June 3, 2025 | Tear physics apart and weaponize it against your enemies! German indie developer Crunchy Leaf Games proudly announces that Galactic Glitch, the twin-stick shooter where you can catch missiles mid-air and fling them back at your foes, fully launches on Steam today after 10 years of development and one year of community-driven Early Access. The game will be sold at a price of 14.99 USD | EUR, with a 25% discount during the first 2 weeks after launch.
What’s New in 1.0
- Explore the Quarantine Zone: A tough, infested new mid-game level
- Defeat the Cybervoid: An endgame arena with dynamic, ever-changing challenges
- 20+ new enemies: Each featuring new mechanics
- Two new final bosses, and 6 new level bosses
- More than 40 new upgradeable powers, for 90+ powers total
- All-new mechanics, like Glitch Bombs, to unlock secrets and explore
- Prototype ships, which you can find in the wild, capture, and use as starter ships
- A new Overview Map in the Hub area, that guides your exploration of the void
- New Glitch Tokens, to give players more control over their builds
- More Improvements
- Completely reworked and improved UI
- A new Boss Orb system, that unlocks game progress more smoothly
- Added 15+ more special room types, challenges, event rooms, and new mini-bosses
- Higher base difficulty, for better challenge and to make progress more gradual
- Updated and Expanded Hub area, with new rooms
- Added Helpers that allow construction of Hub rooms
Galactic Glitch blends the frantic action and build depth of Nova Drift, the fluid combat style of Dead Cells, and its own innovative physics-based combat mechanics. Use your grav gun creatively to slingshot debris, rip enemies apart, or repurpose enemy attacks into your own arsenal. With 100+ powers and weapons, 70+ enemy types, and a dynamic New Game+ system, Galactic Glitch offers endless replayability and evolving challenges every run.
"Community feedback guided us all through Early Access, and we’re incredibly thankful for that. It led to big changes—like adding mid-run saves early on, or reworking the weapon system after players told us the old one just wasn’t fun. Version 1.0 follows the same path, with highly requested features like Prototype ships and a much better upgrade system. Working together with our players has been a great experience and very enjoyable for us—and we’re thrilled to finally launch the full game." — Max Dohme, lead developer at Crunchy Leaf Games
KEY FEATURES
- 2D Space-Roguelite – A frantic twin-stick shooter with endless replayability and permadeath stakes.
- Physics-Based Combat – Use a gravity gun to grab debris, hurl asteroids, and fling enemy missiles back at them.
- Multi-Part Enemies – Tear foes apart piece by piece, exposing weak spots while dodging their armored sections.
- Dynamic Exploration – Chart a glitched starfield, uncover secrets, and loot rare gear along branching paths.
- Abilities and Items – Unlock new powers every run and combine them into endlessly varied builds.
About Crunchy Leaf Games
Crunchy Leaf Games is a Berlin-based indie studio led by founder Max Dohme. Known for 3030 Deathwar Redux, Rise of Legions, and Crystal Clash, the team specialises in community-driven action games that push genre boundaries.
Development Through Adversity
Roughly half of the Galactic Glitch developers are Ukrainian. While some still work from within Ukraine, others have been forced to relocate—often more than once—yet all have continued contributing code, art, and design amid the turmoil of war. In recognition of their resilience, Crunchy Leaf Games will donate a portion of the game’s launch profits to humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.
