After Hours
Released
AFTER HOURS
The arcade's closed. The blacklight's on. Your glow is the only thing keeping you alive, and the only thing giving you away.
A neon laser-tag arena where there's no health bar, just light. Players move through a near-dark blacklight room lit almost entirely by neon: the strips on their own suits, the glowing trim that runs along the cover and floor, and flickering light fixtures overhead that you can shoot out to drop a whole section into darkness. The arena wears your color too. Pick a hue and it runs across your suit strips, your bolts, your grenades, your HUD lives, your clan tag and your chat name, while the floor and cover strips light up and beam in the color of whoever walks past. Laser bolts are real travelling projectiles, so they can be caught, frozen, and thrown back. Still in active development and updated often.
ARSENAL (pick your loadout: 4 weapon slots, keys 1-4)
- Laser Pistol: semi-auto bolt sidearm; tap V to toggle single vs a tightening 3-round burst, overheats if you mash it. (LMB)
- Bolt Grenade: thrown charge that bursts into a 20-bolt spray on a 2s fuse. (LMB)
- Portal Gun: place a linked blue/orange pair you physically walk through with momentum carried; one use per pair, then both collapse (30s cooldown). True see-through screen-space portals. (LMB blue / RMB orange)
- Time Bubble: thrown orb that deploys a slow-time dome; everything caught inside crawls, and laser bolts physically dent and cave the dome's surface. (LMB)
- Tracking Dart: sticks to an enemy and loops audio from their position, so a runner gives themselves away by sound, not a HUD ping. (LMB)
- Power Shotgun: 8-pellet cone, grabbed off wall racks (hold R) and equipped to slot 5 (E); overcharges after 3 shots.
ABILITIES (locked, always available, not loadout slots)
- Force Field (Q): project a refractive dome that catches incoming enemy bolts (up to 20), then fire them straight back at the shooter. Its interior sloshes like a held glob of liquid, and it can even scoop up the map's rain and lob it as a water volley. (Q to equip, hold RMB to project, LMB to fire back)
- Lights Out (F): black out your own suit strips and darken your body for ~5s (12s cooldown). In a room where you're seen by your glow, cutting it means you genuinely vanish into the dark. Tagging someone during or just after a cloak scores a cloak kill.
MAPS / MODES
- Mainline: the main battle arena (FFA + Teams)
- Mainline XL: a larger layout (FFA + Teams)
- Practice Range: solo trainer with a lane per weapon, launched from TUTORIAL
(More arenas, Arena / Siege / Nexus / Crucible, are in the works and shown as locked cards.)
MATCH SETUP
- No health bar: 3 hits inside a 5-second window tag you OUT for a few seconds and cost a life; run out of lives and you're eliminated. A 0.1s i-frame stops one shotgun cone or grenade fan from burning multiple lives at once, and out-of-combat regen drains accumulated hits, but only while you stay off offensive weapons.
- Host-configurable: round length, lives (1-5 or unlimited, default unlimited), hits-to-tag-out (1-5, default 3), life recharge, friendly fire, and 0-5 bots (default 2).
- Bots fight with the exact same arsenal you do. Each rolls one of five personalities (Aggressor, Sniper, Flanker, Ambusher, Skirmisher), coordinates with the others to spread out then focus-fire the weakened, and shows up on the scoreboard with its own handle, clan tag and color.
PROGRESSION
- 27 tracked stats tied to the game's real mechanics: bolts caught on the force field, redirected return-fire tags, portal travels through your own vs enemy portals, cloak kills, lights shot out, and more.
- 15 achievements (2 secret). Unlock every one and you earn a secret unlock.
- Leaderboards: 14 per-stat categories with Daily / Weekly / All-Time tabs.
CONTROLS
- WASD: move · Space: jump · Shift: sprint · C: crouch
- LMB: fire / throw / place blue portal / fire-back from the force field
- RMB: place orange portal / hold to project the Force Field
- 1-4: weapon slots · Mouse wheel: cycle slots · E: equip power weapon / interact
- Q: Force Field · F: Lights Out · V: pistol single/burst · R: grab power weapon (hold)
- T: graffiti spray (hold for the wheel, tap to quick-spray) · Tab: scoreboard · Enter: chat
The arcade's closed. The blacklight's on. Your glow is the only thing keeping you alive, and the only thing giving you away.
A neon laser-tag arena where there's no health bar, just light. Players move through a near-dark blacklight room lit almost entirely by neon: the strips on their own suits, the glowing trim that runs along the cover and floor, and flickering light fixtures overhead that you can shoot out to drop a whole section into darkness. The arena wears your color too. Pick a hue and it runs across your suit strips, your bolts, your grenades, your HUD lives, your clan tag and your chat name, while the floor and cover strips light up and beam in the color of whoever walks past. Laser bolts are real travelling projectiles, so they can be caught, frozen, and thrown back. Still in active development and updated often.
ARSENAL (pick your loadout: 4 weapon slots, keys 1-4)
- Laser Pistol: semi-auto bolt sidearm; tap V to toggle single vs a tightening 3-round burst, overheats if you mash it. (LMB)
- Bolt Grenade: thrown charge that bursts into a 20-bolt spray on a 2s fuse. (LMB)
- Portal Gun: place a linked blue/orange pair you physically walk through with momentum carried; one use per pair, then both collapse (30s cooldown). True see-through screen-space portals. (LMB blue / RMB orange)
- Time Bubble: thrown orb that deploys a slow-time dome; everything caught inside crawls, and laser bolts physically dent and cave the dome's surface. (LMB)
- Tracking Dart: sticks to an enemy and loops audio from their position, so a runner gives themselves away by sound, not a HUD ping. (LMB)
- Power Shotgun: 8-pellet cone, grabbed off wall racks (hold R) and equipped to slot 5 (E); overcharges after 3 shots.
ABILITIES (locked, always available, not loadout slots)
- Force Field (Q): project a refractive dome that catches incoming enemy bolts (up to 20), then fire them straight back at the shooter. Its interior sloshes like a held glob of liquid, and it can even scoop up the map's rain and lob it as a water volley. (Q to equip, hold RMB to project, LMB to fire back)
- Lights Out (F): black out your own suit strips and darken your body for ~5s (12s cooldown). In a room where you're seen by your glow, cutting it means you genuinely vanish into the dark. Tagging someone during or just after a cloak scores a cloak kill.
MAPS / MODES
- Mainline: the main battle arena (FFA + Teams)
- Mainline XL: a larger layout (FFA + Teams)
- Practice Range: solo trainer with a lane per weapon, launched from TUTORIAL
(More arenas, Arena / Siege / Nexus / Crucible, are in the works and shown as locked cards.)
MATCH SETUP
- No health bar: 3 hits inside a 5-second window tag you OUT for a few seconds and cost a life; run out of lives and you're eliminated. A 0.1s i-frame stops one shotgun cone or grenade fan from burning multiple lives at once, and out-of-combat regen drains accumulated hits, but only while you stay off offensive weapons.
- Host-configurable: round length, lives (1-5 or unlimited, default unlimited), hits-to-tag-out (1-5, default 3), life recharge, friendly fire, and 0-5 bots (default 2).
- Bots fight with the exact same arsenal you do. Each rolls one of five personalities (Aggressor, Sniper, Flanker, Ambusher, Skirmisher), coordinates with the others to spread out then focus-fire the weakened, and shows up on the scoreboard with its own handle, clan tag and color.
PROGRESSION
- 27 tracked stats tied to the game's real mechanics: bolts caught on the force field, redirected return-fire tags, portal travels through your own vs enemy portals, cloak kills, lights shot out, and more.
- 15 achievements (2 secret). Unlock every one and you earn a secret unlock.
- Leaderboards: 14 per-stat categories with Daily / Weekly / All-Time tabs.
CONTROLS
- WASD: move · Space: jump · Shift: sprint · C: crouch
- LMB: fire / throw / place blue portal / fire-back from the force field
- RMB: place orange portal / hold to project the Force Field
- 1-4: weapon slots · Mouse wheel: cycle slots · E: equip power weapon / interact
- Q: Force Field · F: Lights Out · V: pistol single/burst · R: grab power weapon (hold)
- T: graffiti spray (hold for the wheel, tap to quick-spray) · Tab: scoreboard · Enter: chat