PE.STUDIO

AITHERAXIS: KATABASIS

A single-player sci-fi shoot 'em up where the battlefield itself shifts. In development for PC and consoles. Coming 2027.

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The battlefield shifts

Side-scrolling one moment, top-down the next. Energy tunnels fold the camera in the middle of a fight, so a single stage can play like several different games.

Read the bullet patterns, roll through enemies, dodge at the last second and keep your laser from overheating. Then the world turns ninety degrees.

Side-scrolling combat above the clouds of the Orion Sector The same stage seen from above, in top-down view
Side view
Top-down

Ten sectors down

Katabasis means descent. Iason Vale, a pilot from Earth, crashes into Akryon, a galaxy full of dead civilizations. Guided only by LYRA, his ship's AI, he has to fight his way through ten sectors, each one guarded by a Custodian.

  1. Orion Sector

    Guarded by ORION

    The ship fighting enemy fighters above a sea of clouds

  2. Asteroid Belt

    Guarded by KRUX

  3. Kefra Station

    Guarded by NEXO

  4. Crimson Nebula

    Guarded by ARACNE

    Explosions inside a crimson nebula with a glowing vortex

  5. Orbital Graveyard

    Guarded by CARONTE

    Flying between the wrecks of an ancient fleet next to a burning sun

  6. Helios Port

    Guarded by HELIOSTATO

    Boss introduction: Heliostato, Colossus Class

  7. Void Anomaly

    Guarded by NULO

    A canyon torn by violet lightning and floating rocks

  8. Titan Forge

    Guarded by PROMETIO

    An industrial station under a black hole

  9. Black Horizon

    Guarded by JANO

  10. Final Core

    Guarded by ???

The eight lights

“When the eight lights gather again, the way to him will open.”

Each Custodian holds a light. Take it, and your ship evolves into a new form with new weapons. Nobody has told Iason who “him” is.

What you'll do

Fight ten multi-phase bosses
Every sector ends with a Custodian that changes its attacks as it breaks apart.
Survive cinematic set pieces
Quantum tunnels, a fall into a rift and a portal crossing in full 3D, with quick-time moments.
Master a ship that hits back
Attack barrel rolls that cut through enemies, last-second dodges and a laser you have to keep cool.
Follow the story in comic pages
An animated comic prologue and LYRA's logs before each sector tell what happened, and what is still hidden.
Inside a quantum tunnel, crossing red laser beams The ship flying through a rainstorm Top-down view with a large armored enemy

One developer, one galaxy

PE Studio is an independent game studio based in Seville, Spain. It is run by one person, Diego Ceballos Mora, a computer engineer who designs, codes and builds every part of his games himself.

The studio is named after his two daughters. AITHERAXIS: KATABASIS is its first game.

Game
AITHERAXIS: KATABASIS
Genre
Sci-fi shoot 'em up
Players
1
Platforms
PC and consoles (planned)
Release
2027
Languages
English, Spanish
Engine
Unity

Get in touch

Platform holders, publishers and press are welcome to write.

diego.ceballos.dev@pestudio.eu