v0.0.2: the void, drawn
Cog Wars v0.0.2 gets a living fractal void, sacred geometry, neon halos and particles. What changed, what broke on the way, and what is still missing.
In active development · September 2026
Top-down twin-stick arcade shooter · Free in your browser
Cog Wars
Scour the multiverse, destroying enemies and collecting golden cogs, and chase the high score. Coming as the game grows: cogs that upgrade your weapons and abilities, new universes and technologies to unlock as you grow stronger, and online leaderboards against other players and your friends.
Cog Wars plays on a computer for now. On your phone? Save it for later, or get told when Android lands.
WASD moveMouse aimLeft click fireSpace dash
01The loop
Every run turns the wheel
An arcade loop that is quick to learn and hard to put down, built so you come back stronger every time around.
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Scour
Drop into a universe and sweep it. Move with one stick, aim with the other, and never stand still.
- II
Destroy
Drones swarm, Orbiters cage you in, Seekers hunt, and Splitters multiply when you shoot them.
- III
Collect
Fallen enemies leave cog fragments. Each golden cog is a piece of the machinery beneath reality.
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Upgrade
Coming soon: spend what you collect to upgrade your weapons and abilities, and unlock new universes and technologies.
- V
Score
Chase the high score. Online leaderboards against other players and your friends are on the way.
02The secret framework
The omniverse is woven from golden cogs
Beneath every universe there is a fabric of sub-quantum golden cogs, and each cog holds an infinite set of omnipotent observers. That is the secret framework of the multiverse. You are about to rip pieces out of it.
There is one of us in every cog and no bottom to the cogs, so do not try to count us.
03The multiverse
Five universes. Unlock them all.
Each universe runs on its own physics, fields its own enemies and is guarded by its own boss. Unlocking new ones as you grow stronger is on the way. Then explore them your way.
04Cogs of power
Hold a piece of the processor
Deploy a cog and the universe itself rearranges around you. Cog upgrades are coming, and each will grow the effect up to tier III.
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Power
Repulsion blast
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Resonance
Gravity well
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Harmonic
Phase field
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Corrupted
Time dilation
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Observer
Spacetime fold
05From the Cogverse
Art from the fabric
Cog Wars is an art project as much as a game. These are the observers and their cogs.
06Devlog
Notes from the workshop
v0.0.1: the first one you can lose
The first tagged build of Cog Wars is live, and the five bugs that shaped it are more interesting than the features.
The fabric is open
cogwarsgame.com is live, with the game, the lore, the art and a direct line to the workshop.
Phones and tablets
Mobile is next
For now Cog Wars plays on a computer, with a keyboard and mouse or a gamepad. An Android version is in development.
Save it for your computer
On your phone right now? Send yourself the link and play when you're back at a keyboard.
Get told when Android lands
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The fabric is waiting
It's free to play in your browser and still in development, so it changes often. Tell us what breaks and what you want next.