FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL: a pixel art stealth shooter

The story

Saltmarrow has been under rolling blackouts for nine nights, and everyone blames the storm. Wren Okafor, a night-shift lineworker who knows every breaker in the city, finds out the dark is being sold: a crew called the Sootline cuts the power to a block so their clients can work unseen. Wren turns their trick against them. She cuts the lights and comes in fast.

What you do in FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL

• Fight in the dark. Lit rooms favour the crew's eyes; dark rooms favour yours. Throw a breaker and the room drops into shadow: the crew grows suspicious before they spot you, and walking makes no sound.

• Use the lights against them. Flash a lamp, sign or screen to blind the crew standing in its light. But every shot you fire lights you up, and the crew's technicians will walk to a dead panel and switch it back on unless you reach them first.

• Twin-stick shooting with no reloads. Movement is instant and most things go down in one or two hits, Wren included. When a gun runs dry, throw it and grab another.

• 17 missions and 4 boss fights. A single-player campaign in a prologue and four acts: cold stores and fish markets on the docks, a neon strip with a karaoke bar and a nightclub, the hill where the lights never go out, and the switchyard that powers it all.

• Bosses with a trick to read and break. A dock boss charges behind a steel shield, a club owner strobes the room on his own beat, a security chief's thermal visor sees in the dark, and one man knows the grid better than Wren does.

• Three stars per mission. Clear it, beat the target time and complete its challenge.

• 12 perks that change how you play. Most of them unlock with stars, and you pick a starting gun: the quiet Nail Gun or the Flare Pistol, whose flares become lights of their own.

• Play your way. Turn on relaxed mode, adjust the aim assist or switch to a left-handed layout.

• Rain, lightning and an original soundtrack. Rain falls on the docks, lightning cracks over the harbour, and the music follows the city from the Wharf to the switchyard.

How to play FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL

1. Move with the left stick, and aim and shoot with the right. On Android, a gamepad, or a keyboard and mouse, work too.

2. Find the breaker and cut the circuit. The room drops into shadow, and the crew has a much harder time spotting you.

3. Slip between flashlight cones, kick doors in and strike from the dark. Every shot you fire lights you up, so choose when to shoot.

4. Stop the technicians before they switch the power back on.

5. Clear the mission, then come back for all three stars: beat the target time and complete the mission's challenge.

A retry takes under a second, and every threat is telegraphed, so each attempt teaches you the room.

FUSE BREAKER PROTOCOL screenshots