CAPTIVE 3000 PRESS KIT

A real-time sci-fi dungeon crawler and spiritual successor to the Amiga classic Captive — retro design, built the old way with sprites, lightning fast.

Captive 3000 follows a mysterious prisoner who wakes from cryosleep on a forgotten moon, contacts a droid on a distant planet, and uses it to mount a rescue, after the collapse of human civilization. It combines real-time first-person grid-maze exploration, tactical combat, and resource management, across 13 handcrafted levels, followed by infinite procedurally generated missions.

Captive 3000 begins when a decommissioned Optimus Mark I droid is reactivated on a distant planet by a mysterious prisoner who wakes from cryosleep. The prisoner discovers that Earth has fallen, and must stage their own rescue. Built in the lineage of Captive, Dungeon Master, Eye of the Beholder, Black Crypt, and Hired Guns, it delivers real-time first-person grid exploration, tactical combat, resource management, and an invulnerable stalker through a custom sprite-based engine designed for lightning-fast rendering without a commercial 3D engine. Its 13 handcrafted levels contain 26 hidden illustrated story murals that gradually reveal the player's identity and humanity’s fate, while roguelite mechanics keep every decision consequential. After Mission 01, infinite deterministic procedurally generated missions allow players to continue exploring new space stations and starbases forever. Players buy once and can then play through Steam on Windows or Mac, in a browser, or on iPad and tablet with cloud saves and cross-platform progress.