Triggerheart Exelica

About

Triggerheart Exelica is a vertically scrolling shooter where you pilot Exelica and Crueltear through waves of mechanical enemies. Players dodge, shoot, and capture foes to turn them into shields or homing projectiles. The game mixes straightforward arcade action with strategic depth as you manage power levels and prioritize targets. Each level escalates tension with tighter corridors and boss fights that require precise timing. The game’s cult following stems from its quirky charm and replayability. Though released in 2006, its port to modern systems has reintroduced it to new audiences. Community forums highlight the satisfaction of mastering its difficulty curves and the creative use of enemy units as offensive tools. With a single-player campaign focused on planetary defense, it offers a compact but intense challenge for fans of old-school shooters.

Storyline

In an unknown alien galaxy far away from the Milky Way, a war is waging between a group of human-like people called C.H.I.L.D.A. and a mysterious race of violent robotic vehicles known as the Ver’mith. C.H.I.L.D.A. employed their elite squad consisting of humanoid weapons known as Triggerhearts, two of the Triggerheart units, Exelica and her programmed sister Crueltear, were busily fighting the Ver’mith during an attack when a portal known as "Gate" opened and sucked both Triggerhearts in. Materializing on planet Earth, Exelica and Crueltear soon made this planet their new home as they had no means of return, and losing their reasons to fight as they were also uncapable to know the outcome of the Interstellar Wars. Some time later a new portal opened and the surviving Ver'mith forces appeared. Intent on making Earth their primary fortress of attack, the Ver'mith quickly eliminated the majority of Earth’s defenses. As the destruction spreads, the once buried fighting instincts within Exelica and Crueltear re-awoke. The final battle against the Ver'mith has begun, but this time the Ver'mith have their own version of a Triggerheart unit known as Faintear. Outnumbered, but with their fighting instincts awoken, and with a reason to fight once again, the future of planet Earth and the entire galaxy rests on the Triggerheart units.