A fast paced twin-joysticks shooter, with multiplayer, leaderboards, and community created levels.


  • Fast and diversified game play with 5 different game modes
  • Play levels created by other players; Create your own levels!
  • Leaderboards with replays
  • Online and LAN multiplayer with 2 player co-op
  • Smooth 120+ FPS graphics
  • Retro-futurist vector graphics
  • Unlockable ships, bullets, trails
  • Game controller support
  • Contains no ads or pay-to-win nonsense
  • 100% free!

A fast paced twin-joysticks shooter, with deviations and boss fights, multiplayer, leaderboards, achievements, and community created levels.


  • Fast and diversified game play with 9 unique game modes
  • Features new enemies, completely new weapons
  • Features a World with many deviations, including boss fights
  • Play levels created by other players; Create your own levels!
  • Score and speedrun leaderboards with replays
  • Online and LAN multiplayer with 2 player co-op
  • Smooth 120+ FPS graphics
  • Retro-futurist vector graphics
  • Unlockable ships, bullets, trails, joysticks, lasers, maces, UI skins
  • Game controller support
  • Dozens of achievements

Latest news

@pewpewlive@mastodon.social Jun 22, 2025

It was brought to my attention that there's a simple memory optimization (*) available in Lua that can save memory.

Applying it to PewPew Live results in large savings:
For example, there's 20% less memory used when loading the background mesh of Pandemonium!
The levels see gains as well.

This optimisation will shipped in the next update.

(*) You just tell the compiler to pack a structure, as described in
sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/sblp/


@pewpewlive@mastodon.social Apr 21, 2025
@pewpewlive@mastodon.social Apr 19, 2025

During the last 48 hours emails to gmail were not being sent correctly.
The issue should be fixed now.
My apologies!


@pewpewlive@mastodon.social Apr 2, 2025

Daily quests are coming soon to PewPew Live 2!


@pewpewlive@mastodon.social Jan 2, 2025

The Design Jam is over and we are thrilled to have received 33 submissions, including 14 ships! See the complete list at docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

You can vote for the submissions that you'd like to see in PPL by joining the discord server.