Storming the Grandmothership

How fast can you destroy the Grandmothership and all of her cores? This game was heavily influenced by the third level of R-Type.

19 March 2021

Arcade Shooter Action

Storming the Grandmothership is an arcade developed by picoter8, released 19 March 2021 on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser.

Verified 25 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB

What Storming the Grandmothership is

Storming the Grandmothership is an arcade game developed by picoter8 and released in 2021. It is available on Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Web browser. It runs on PICO-8.

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Storming the Grandmothership launched on 19 March 2021, within three weeks of It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut and Monster Hunter Rise.

Released around the same time: It Takes Two, Disco Elysium: Final Cut, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Monster Hunter Rise.