Kirian
Bottom Up Shooting Game
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Fly a lone gunship through an endless corridor of hostiles, one sixty-second sector at a time.
Kirian is a vertical arcade shooter built on a roguelike loop. Losing your vessel does not end the run — you keep every weapon, every credit, every point you have earned, and drop back to Sector 1 to push deeper than last time. Progress is permanent. Only your hull resets.
ELEMENTAL DESTRUCTION
Enemies die by the weapon that killed them. Bubble guns burst them into water. Cannons shatter them into ice that falls heavy and cold. Star guns leave them burning with rising flame and drifting embers. Lasers discharge in a flicker of lightning. Blasters implode them into a magenta plasma nova. Each kill reads at a glance.
BUILD YOUR GUNSHIP
Between sectors, the Com Center is yours: front guns, side guns, generators, hull and shields, all upgradable across twenty-five levels. Power is finite — a heavier gun drains a generator that cannot keep up, so every loadout is a trade. Score never resets, and crossing its thresholds permanently unlocks the higher weapon tiers.
HAND-BUILT WAVES, THEN FOREVER
Eighteen hand-authored sectors span six zones, each a tight sixty-second script with its own formations and rhythm. Past them the generator takes over and never stops, difficulty climbing without a ceiling, bosses waiting at every fifth level.
TWO PLAYERS, ONE ROOM
Co-op runs over local Wi-Fi with automatic discovery — no accounts, no servers, no internet. One device hosts, the other joins, and you fly the same sector together.
FOURTEEN LOOKS
Every skin restyles the whole game: ships, enemies, backgrounds, interface, sound. Three ship free with the app. The other eleven are one-time purchases, each permanent, with no ads, no subscriptions and no consumables anywhere in the game.
BUILT TO FEEL RIGHT
GPU shaders drive bloom, scanlines, vignette and chromatic aberration. Enemies shatter into physics-driven fragments cut from their own sprites. Play by touch, keyboard, or a connected controller.
Two Game Center leaderboards rank you by total score and by the deepest level you have ever reached, alongside achievements for kills, sectors and untouched runs.
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This release is almost entirely fixes, and the
biggest one is sound.
On iOS 17 and 18.0–18.3 the game ran completely
silent — no music, no weapons, no explosions. Those
versions cannot decode the audio format the game
ships, so it now decodes them itself. Sound works
everywhere again.
Also fixed:
• Sound faded away piece by piece during a longer
session — effects first, then the music — and only
came back if you left the app and returned
• Music dipped and swelled on every single kill; in
a dense wave the melody crawled up and down for
the whole fight
• Changing skin could start all five soundtrack
layers at once, on top of each other
• Short sound effects stopped replaying after they
had been triggered once
• Changing skin mid-sector could black out the
playfield while the HUD kept running
• Switching to the Kirian skin could leave your ship
invisible while enemies and background drew fine
• The generator fired an invisible shot every ten
seconds — real damage and a real firing sound with
nothing on screen. It powers your devices now and
stays quiet
• Co-op no longer opens the network unless you
actually host a game
The app is also about 100 MB smaller to download and
each skin uses half the memory it did before, which
matters most on older devices.
The developer, Olin Vorechovsky, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Olin Vorechovsky
- Size
- 130.2 MB
- Category
- Action
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Neon Voxel Skin $0.99
- Wasteland Pixel Skin $0.99
- Sepia Dogfight Skin $0.99
- Chrome Fleet Skin $0.99
- Dual-Polarity Skin $0.99
- Retro PC Pixel Skin $0.99
- 16-Bit Laser Skin $0.99
- Biomech Cruiser Skin $0.99
- 8-Bit Canyon Skin $0.99
- Vector Wireframe Skin $0.99
- Copyright
- © A+B

