Open now · By request
We come in Pieces playtest
by Orbital Beam
Earth said "welcome." - You brought the tractor beam . . . A short incremental game about blowing cities to pieces. Melt a retro city with your saucer's beam, harvest the survivors into biomass, and upgrade yourself into an extinction level event.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Orbital Beam
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English
How to join the We come in Pieces playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the We come in Pieces playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Generative AI was used to assist in creating the game's capsule artwork and selected marketing materials, guided by our creative direction. All assets were reviewed by the development team.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About We come in Pieces
WE COME IN PIECES
Earth said "welcome." You brought a tractor beam.
You are the flying saucer. Sweep your beam across a sleepy mid-century city and watch it come apart piece by piece: roofs cave, walls buckle, whole blocks fold into rubble. Hoover up the little people fleeing below, drop them through your onboard processor, and turn a quiet afternoon into the raw biomass that makes your next pass so much worse.
Then do it to a bigger city.
Piece by piece
Sweep your beam across the town and watch it come apart in real time. Roofs cave, walls buckle, whole blocks fold into rubble. Then do it to a bigger city.
The peg-board processor
Hoover up the little people fleeing below and drop them through your onboard processor. They bounce off the pegs and pay out in biomass. A quiet afternoon becomes fuel.
The Evolution Matrix
Spend biomass on a sprawling upgrade tree. Burst attacks, splitting and chaining beams, drone escorts. Every branch makes the next pass worse for the town.
Let the machines harvest
Build harvesting machines that keep working while you sit back. Watch the biomass climb, then step in when you want to steer the beam again.
Destroy, harvest, evolve
- Carve buildings apart in real time with a beam you steer like a cursor.
- Harvest the population, then run them through a satisfying peg-board processor that pays out in biomass.
- Spend it all in the Evolution Matrix, a sprawling upgrade tree: burst attacks, splitting and chaining beams, drone escorts, meteor storms, orbital sweeps from the mothership, and machines that harvest while you sit back.
From the game's Steam page.
