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Key points

Game is fully stable compared to the rest of the Arcade games KraiSoft has made, no bugs so far have been seen, while some may consider the part where a cannon from a boss is still firing after being destroyed (which can be seen in Mission 9 for example) a bug, this is most likely an intended mechanic to still make the boss difficult to take down, and there's a video showing how to beat it without dying.

Alien Sky is a singleplayer top-down view arcade game.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Developer website

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Save.cdf^{[Note 1]}

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS		The game is most likely locked on 60 FPS, judging from how smooth the in-game animations are.
120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Remap settings, including the volume slider

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		The game allows all actions to be remapped (left and right movement, fire and extra weapon fire.)
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity		The game allows mouse control for ship movement
Mouse input in menus		The game has its own custom cursor
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		The game has a separate slider for Sound and Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	8

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	95
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium II
System memory (RAM)	64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	25 MB of free space
Video card (GPU)	8 MB of VRAM DirectX 8.0 compatible

Notes

↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

[gamedir-1] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

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Developers

	KraiSoft Entertainment
Release dates
Windows	March 8, 2004
Taxonomy
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Top-down view
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Arcade
Vehicles	Space flight
Art styles	Pre-rendered graphics
Themes	Space