# ASCII Gunship

> Retro terminal bullet hell

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6786530509](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6786530509)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6786530509`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Anguished LLC
- **Category:** Action
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20
- **First published:** 2026-07-20
- **Size:** 5.67 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-26
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ascii-gunship/id6786530509)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://anguishedturtle.com/privacy.html](https://anguishedturtle.com/privacy.html)

## Description

A living terminal: glyph gunships, ASCII bosses, new upgrades every wave. No ads, no paywalls — every ship is earnable in-game.

Your gunship is made of characters. So is everything trying to kill it.

ASCII GUNSHIP is an arcade vertical shoot-em-up rendered entirely as a live terminal character grid — every ship, bullet, boss, and explosion is a glyph in a bright ANSI palette, wrapped in optional CRT scanlines.

Drag to fly. Your cannons never stop. Tap the bomb when the screen fills with fire.

Clear a wave, pick 1 of 3 upgrade cards — fire rate, orbiting drones, chain lightning levels, tail guns — and build a different gunship every run. Every fifth wave a multi-part ASCII boss fills the top of the terminal: shoot off its turrets, survive three escalating gun phases, salvage the credits.

Spend salvage in the hangar on 8 gunships, each with its own passive and starting weapon — from the reliable RAPTOR to the drone-carrying PALADIN. Fight through 5 sectors with distinct procedural backdrops and enemy rosters, then loop them at MK-2 ferocity.

FEATURES
- Everything is text: a real-time character-grid renderer, zero sprite art
- 8 weapons: VULCAN, SPREAD, LASER, HOMING MSL, WAVE CANNON, RIPPLE, TESLA ARC, PLASMA SNAKE
- 18 upgrade cards, pick 1 of 3 between waves
- 5 multi-part bosses with destructible parts and 3-phase patterns
- 8 buyable glyph gunships with real passives
- 5 sectors + endless MK tiers, chain multiplier up to x9
- CADET / VETERAN / ACE difficulty, CRT scanline toggle
- Offline, private, no accounts, no tracking
- No ads, no paywalls — every ship earnable in-game (optional tip jar)

Fly. Fire. Pick a card. Beat your best.

## Rankings

- #1,273,033 — Overall

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