Star Base Wars

Star Base Wars is a co-op space game for three people and one spaceship. One of you is the pilot and the other two are gunners, one in the top turret and one underneath. The mission is to fly in, survive the enemy fighters and blow up a huge space station. You only pull it off if all three of you do your job.

The pilot steers by tilting the phone. There’s no up or down in space, so you can fly in any direction, boost when you need speed and pull hard turns or loops to shake off whoever is chasing you. The gunners aim by turning their phones around, which really makes it feel like you’re sitting in the turret. The lasers overheat after a few seconds so you can’t just hold the button down, and for the bigger targets you lock on with a missile by keeping the crosshair on them for two seconds.

One person starts a new mission and shares the crew code, and the others join from their own phones. If your friends are busy you can still start alone and the AI takes the empty seats. It works on a computer with the keyboard as well.

It’s free, it runs in the browser and there’s nothing to install. Turn the phone sideways and get lost in space.