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Stellar Melee: Starship Duel
A fast, tactical one-on-one space duel built on honest physics: nothing slows you down but your brake. 28 hand-tuned ships, four rival fleets, four ways to fight — all on your device, no account required.
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Free to try — first three battles free · One-time Full Game unlock · No ads, no subscriptions
See It In Action
Freeze the fight. Read every shot.
Stellar Melee in action — pick your ship, bend time with your movement, and strike.
Why Stellar Melee
A space duel that rewards thinking, not twitch
Every duel is a chess match flown by hand — read the field, commit to an arc, and outthink your rival.
Momentum Is the Weapon
Pure physics dogfighting is the default: thrust, drift, and gravity, with nothing to slow you down but your brake.
28 Ships, Four Rival Fleets
The balanced Alliance, the aggressive Dominion, the exotic Concord, and the storm-born Tempest. Every ship is a true side-grade — a different playstyle, never just more power — so the leaderboards stay fair.
Three More Ways to Fight
Switch modes before a duel: Stillness bends time to your movement, Gravity makes planets bend your shots too, and Brink rewards living dangerously.
Slingshot the Planets
Swing tight around a planet and whip out the far side faster than your engines could ever push you — and keep that speed.
Game Center Leaderboards
Global rankings for total wins and best streak, plus achievements from First Blood to Untouchable.
Try Three Duels Free
First three battles free; one one-time purchase unlocks the full game and all base ships. Optional ship and cosmetic packs never sell power.
A Closer Look
Inside Stellar Melee
Tap any screenshot to zoom.
Under the Hood
How the Game Was Tuned
Difficulty changes the pilot, not the ship
The opponent is flown through the same Ship.update entry point your thumbs drive, using the same ship data you picked from. The four tiers only change how much its aim wanders and how long it holds the trigger between rest gaps — a harder enemy is a better pilot, never a ship with inflated stats.
An arena with no walls
Fly off any edge and you come back in the other side. One shortest-path function handles that wrap for everything at once — the AI's targeting, the off-screen enemy arrow, the camera framing and homing missiles — so an enemy just past the left edge is read as right beside you, not a world away.
The game plays itself before it ships
The test suite runs a full best-of-three series with an AI on both sides, frame by frame, checking on every single frame that no position has gone to NaN and no health, shield or battery has gone negative. A companion test fires all 28 ships' special weapons and fails if any one of them is rejected.
Every sound is generated, not recorded
There is no audio file in the app. Effects and the music bed are synthesized with AVAudioEngine when the game starts, repeated effects get pitch-shifted variants so rapid fire never machine-guns one sample, and a peak limiter sits across the mix so stacked explosions can't clip.
Available Now
Time is on your side.
Stellar Melee is on the App Store now. Play your first three battles free, then unlock the full game with a single one-time purchase — no ads, no subscriptions.
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