The Spinhold
Grown cell by cell by builder machines, generations ago. That is why the whole world is voxels: everything here was made from the same cubes.
In development · Coming to Steam
Viglet Games presents
Fly the ring. Break the swarm. Bring them home.
Spinhold is an arcade shooter flown around the outside of a spinning space colony. The machines that built it have turned on it, and they are taking it apart cube by cube, people included. You fly the last tender on the hull.
- 3 rings, 3 Foremen
- 6 kinds of Lattice
- Everything breaks into cubes
- Made for a gamepad
The world
A colony that spins so its people have weight
The Spinhold is a cylinder kilometres long, turning in deep space. Down its axis runs the Sunline, the light that is its sun. The city on its hull is where you fly, one ring at a time.
The Lattice
The builders have woken up wrong. They still follow their oldest order, build the Spinhold, but they have lost the plan, so they break it down and rebuild it as more of themselves.
The Holders
The colony’s people: hull crews, gunners, medics and engineers with no ship of their own. The Lattice carries them off because it thinks they are part of the hull that came loose.
Work in progress
The only warm thing in a cold neon world
Shoot a Gleaner and the Holder it was carrying falls back to the hull. Catch them, fly them through the Lift, and the colony’s core keeps them safe. Nothing grim is ever shown: a Holder the Lattice takes simply flickers out.
Know the Lattice
Six machines, one colour each
Every kind of Lattice glows in a colour of its own, so a crowded ring still reads at a glance. Each one is made of cubes, and each one breaks back into them.
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Mote
The small swarm. Twenty at a time, chasing you round the ring.
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Lancer
Keeps its distance and fires slow, aimed shots.
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Spur
Grows out of the hull and fires straight up.
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Diver
Hovers, draws a line to you, then dives straight down it.
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Sower
Crosses the ring without turning, dropping seeds that wait to burst.
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Gleaner
Rises from the hull carrying a Holder. Reach the top and it is gone with them.
…and a Foreman at the end of every ring
Its core shrugs off every hit until its weak points fall. Tap a card to see who runs each ring.
The tender
A hull-maintenance craft, armed in a hurry
Tenders used to fly the hull fixing what the Lattice built. Yours is the last one flying, and it has three tricks for a crowded ring.
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Dash
Hold it and the tender tears through the swarm untouchable, killing whatever it hits, until the meter runs dry.
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Pulse
A shockwave sent both ways round the whole ring, clearing every machine and every shot it meets.
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Sunline burst
Kills charge it. Full, the tender draws on the colony’s sun and fires it ahead for four slowed seconds.
Keep the streak alive
Every kill raises the multiplier a step, all the way to ×99, and refills its window. Let two and a half seconds pass without one, or lose the tender, and it falls back to one.
- ×1
- ×2
- ×3
- ×10
- ×50
- ×99
Every rescue pays
Each delivery through the Lift pays the next thing on the list: a life, a pulse, a shield, then points that grow with every Holder you bring in at once. Save everyone in a ring and it pays a bonus.
- Life
- Pulse
- Shield
- Points
Fly it
A sample ring, right here
The colony seen end on, with your tender always on top. Shoot the Motes, knock Holders loose from the Gleaners, catch them and fly them through the green Lift. Five waves.
Score
Streak
Lives
Pulses
Saved
- ←→
- fly round the ring
- ↑↓
- climb and dive
- JL
- fire left or right
- Shift
- dash
- B
- pulse
A gamepad works too. On a phone, drag to fly and the tender fires on its own. This is a web sample drawn in 2D from the game’s rules, not the game: no sound, no Lancers or Foremen, and none of the voxels.
Ready on the hull
Five waves. Keep the Holders out of the Lattice’s hands.
Screens
Straight from the game
Every frame here is captured from the running build. The names on screen are still placeholders, and plenty will change before launch.
What’s next
The people you save become your crew
The arcade game above is playable today. This is what is being built on top of it.
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Planned
Every rescue is a pick
Deliver a Holder and choose one of three to join your tender. A gunner, a dock mechanic, a medic: each does their old job aboard, and two of them together can become something neither is alone.
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Planned
Three tenders
Wren, the balanced one you fly today; Swift, light and fast; Bastion, slow and heavy.
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Planned
The watch
Today’s shift, the same for every pilot, with one attempt that counts.
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Planned
Heat
The Lattice learns from every shift it loses, and comes back sharper.
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Planned
Two tenders, one ring
Couch co-op on one screen, and online through Steam Remote Play Together.
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Planned
A fair score
Unlocks add choices, never power. No shop, no loot boxes, one price.
“Nobody else gets left. Fly.”
We craft epic Steam adventures.
Viglet Games is a publisher driven by creativity and heart. After the plush match-3 Cottony, Spinhold is our first trip into neon.
- Games made for the pad
- Experiences that connect
- Creativity in every detail
Spinhold is on its way to Steam
The store page isn’t open yet. Until it is, send this page to someone who still owes you a high score.
Steam page coming soon