The Unmoored Cathedral in VOXEN: a violet-lit chapel, a lightning pillar and an invader under a sky of falling stars
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Voxel shooter · Episode 1

VOXEN the voxel shooter

Stone, slag, ice and iron walk out of the walls and come for you. VOXEN is a fast first-person shooter across thirteen worlds, every room and creature built block by block in VoxiGen.

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First four worlds free · Windows · macOS · Linux

EPISODE 1

Thirteen worlds. The first four are free.

The free download has the first four worlds and a bonus level. The other nine come with the full game.

  1. Torch-lit brick halls of the Broken Keep01Free

    The Broken Keep

    A quarry wall rebuilt itself overnight. The workers never came back.

  2. A skeletal invader on the Furnace Bridges02Free

    The Furnace Bridges

    Bodies of slag and hot stone, fed from the furnace walls.

  3. Frozen blue halls of the Reliquary03Free

    The Frozen Reliquary

    Ice holds the unstable ones in place. Not all of them.

  4. The Unmoored Cathedral under a violet starfield04Free

    The Unmoored Cathedral

    Blocks pulled every way at once. Only the reinforced routes hold.

  5. The Gate Engine's machinery around the breach05

    The Gate Engine

    Human braces around a breach that should never have opened.

  6. Streets of the Inverted City06

    The Inverted City

    A city no human built. Its builders are gone; its stone is walking.

  7. Moulds and conduits of the Living Foundry07

    The Living Foundry

    Where they grow their bodies. The cages are moulds.

  8. Lighthouses over the Silent Ocean08

    The Silent Ocean

    A harbour town, taken. Even stretches of the sea are gone.

  9. Glass and sandstone streets of the Glass Desert09

    The Glass Desert

    Sandstone and glass bodies hold the stripped streets.

  10. Roots around assembled stone in the Rooted Colossus10

    The Rooted Colossus

    The forest fights back against what is taking its stone.

  11. Ruined defences of the Storm Bastion11

    The Storm Bastion

    Metal-bodied invaders hold their forms with lightning.

  12. Machinery of the Clockwork Moon12

    The Clockwork Moon

    Every connection converges here.

  13. The World Between at the heart of the breach13

    The World Between

    Defeat the Keeper. Close the breach.

THE GAME

Fast, loud, and made of blocks.

The Unmoored Cathedral’s ruins glowing violet under a starfield

Worlds like nowhere else

Lava halls, a cathedral pulled apart under the stars, a harbour town missing pieces of its sea. Every world has its own stone, its own light and its own invaders.

An invader coming down an icy street at the player

Shoot them apart

Limbs come off. A head shot ends it. When one dies, it breaks back into the blocks it was made of.

The ember gun’s bolts blowing an invader apart in a lava hall

Pick your weapon

A double-barrel for the close ones, an ember gun that throws bolts of fire, rockets for the ones in the air, and more you find along the way.

NEW IN 0.2.8

Smoother on lower-end machines

  • Distant rooms draw at about a third of the triangles they used to, with proper textures at every distance.
  • The gold and silver key doors look as they did at launch again.
  • Softer shading on pickups, the ember gun and the rocket launcher.

SYSTEMS

What it runs on

Windows
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a graphics card that supports Vulkan.
macOS
macOS on Apple silicon or Intel.
Linux
Linux, 64-bit (x86_64), with Vulkan graphics. The launcher is an AppImage.

QUESTIONS

Before you play

Is VOXEN free?

The first four worlds and a bonus level are free, no account needed. The full game, with all thirteen worlds, will be paid.

What kind of game is VOXEN?

A fast, single-player first-person shooter in the spirit of the classics: keys and secrets, enemies that break back into the blocks they are made of, and a weapon for every kind of fight.

Which platforms is VOXEN on?

Windows, macOS and Linux. The VoxiGen Launcher installs VOXEN and keeps it up to date.

How was VOXEN made?

Every room, prop and creature was built in VoxiGen, a voxel editor that runs in the browser. VOXEN was made solo with AI assistance, then play-tested and tuned by hand. The same tools are there to build worlds of your own.

Build your own worlds

PLAY FREE

Enter the breach.

The first four worlds and a bonus level are free, no account needed.

macOS Launcher Windows Launcher Linux Launcher

The VoxiGen Launcher installs VOXEN and keeps it up to date, and the game opens without security prompts.

First launch on Windows

  1. If Edge says the file isn’t commonly downloaded, click the arrow beside Delete and choose Keep. Then double-click the file.
  2. If “Windows protected your PC” appears, click More info.
  3. Click Run anyway. Windows only asks the first time.

First launch on Linux

  1. Right-click the .AppImage you downloaded (the VoxiGen Launcher), open Properties and turn on Executable as Program (Is executable on KDE).
  2. Double-click it, or right-click it and choose Run as a Program. If a disk tool opens instead, close it — the file is not a disk image.
  3. If nothing opens, install FUSE once: sudo dnf install fuse fuse-libs on Fedora, sudo apt install libfuse2 on Ubuntu or Debian (libfuse2t64 on Ubuntu 24.04).

VOXEN comes from a one-person indie studio. Your computer asks once before it opens an app from a developer it doesn’t know yet.